Reviews Log, Stardate 2013.0507
The attempt at playing through the new Star Trek game has proved to be troublesome. The finished product has proved to be poor and quite illogical. I shall try and continue best that I can.
Hello I’m the Joel MH, punching out the gorn since 2012. Anybody saw the first Star Trek movie of the reboot, of course you did, well this game continues where that left off and before the new film ‘Into Darkness’ which means it has it’s own plot and so it has a chance not to suck. So does it suck… of course it does. So how does it play, well, let’s just say this game boldly goes where Mass Effect went before. I knew this was gonna happen, I mean there has only ever been 2 good movie games, goldeneye 64 and X-men origins wolverine: uncaged edition. So you question why’d I buy it, well it was the advert, you know which one, the shatner and gorn advert:
I mean when has William Shatner ever steered us wrong?
SHUT UP!
So the game story has Kirk and Spock as a two man away team through several missions fighting the gorn,maybe they learned their lessons from the 60’s cause we all know the away teams usually included Kirk, Spock, Bones and Ensign Ricky and one of them isn’t coming back. Of course this game does one thing that the 60’s show didn’t do. HAVE ALL THE STARFLEET CAST DIE BE RED SHIRTS! It’s true some yellow shirts can die too, course this story is pretty much an updated and heavily altered version of an episode of the original series called ‘The Gorn Encounter’ even including a level where you have to take on a large gorn unarmed except for a crossbow and some plasma grenades, making a make shift cannon.
So yes the game does play like Mass Effect, well I suppose it’s a good way to start, ripping off a pre-existing good game. The weapons include, the phaser of course which can stun or kill and it’s infinite for it’s ammo, though it can overheat. Two types of grenade, explosive and stun and several other weapons that all go in one slot, i.e. you can only carry one addition gun with your phaser with all weapons with a secondary fire. But the question on everyone’s mind is what is the difference between playing Kirk and Spock, well… not that much, there are a couple of story differences but mainly don’t deviate from one another and Spock’s takedown is the vulcan nerve pinch. Oh that and the mind melds, Spock can gather information from downed enemies to gather information.
Sadly this game is filled with glitches, at one point in the first level, Kirk disappeared, I couldn’t find him until I found him floating in a corridor, and in the longest level on the game, I had to restart every checkpoint due to constant glitches as well as an A.I. partner who is more retarded than a ‘we love David Cameron’ group who think that he’s done such wonders for the UK by reducing the penalty of rape to a £150 fine and ordering the police to destroy all DNA evidence older than 6 months.
On a positive note all the cast from the 2009 movie return, Kirk is Chris Pine for example, even non playable characters such as Scotty as Simon Pegg. Does anyone else wish he worked with an alien that was voiced by Nick Frost. But it is a struggle to find positives, I mean hidden logs around levels and other hidden items such as tribbles, which don’t really do anything at all. The biggest highlight of the game, let’s just say a fight between Kirk and Spock.
On the whole sadly this game is nothing more than another movie license game, sucky as usual, and very very short, it’s better than a lot of past Star Trek games, but still darn awful with occasion good points. To finally score this game, I give Star Trek the Video Game:
3/10
+ Good for Star Trek fans
- Short
- Glitchy as fuck
- Mass Effect Clone
So still no epic Star Trek game, a series that could really do with one, cause it taught me so much. Like how you should accept people, whether they be black, white, Klingon or even female. I’m The JoelMH and… KHANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
KHANNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
KHANNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
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