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Taldrenites => General Starfleet Command Forum => Topic started by: Acidrain2 on December 15, 2006, 02:03:08 am
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Gamespy Review: Seriously flawed Star Trek: Legacy.
Long-suffering Star Trek gamers are dealt yet another phaser blast to the head with the seriously flawed Star Trek: Legacy.
Pro's
All five captains provide voiceovers; beautifully detailed ships; excellent sound effects; decent ship AI.
Con's
Lousy controls; poor mission design; tactically shallow; flawed skirmish mode; weird collision model; awful explosions; incorrect instruction manual and tutorials.
http://uk.pc.gamespy.com/pc/star-trek-legacy/751151p1.html (http://uk.pc.gamespy.com/pc/star-trek-legacy/751151p1.html)
Acidrain
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Highlights of the review
“That's only one of the many, many missed opportunities on display in Star Trek: Legacy, a tragically mediocre space combat game. It didn't have to be that way. This game could have been the be all and end all for Trek fans and action gamers alike instead of the sad capstone to a long history of crappy licensed video games.”
“When something in Legacy is destroyed, it cracks up into huge polygonal objects that twist around and pass through one another. The game also tends to duplicate pieces of what's being destroyed multiple times during an explosion.”
“The bad news is that the storyline can be a bit hard to follow. Missions that were cut prior to release ended up bowdlerizing the story, resulting in strange jumps in the narrative, plot twists that come out of nowhere, a strange lack of motivation for some of the actions that take place and a general unsatisfactory feeling to the single-player campaign.”
“Fortunately, the main menu has an "Extras" button that contains some rough animatics for what were obviously planned as cutscenes. These should help gamers piece the story together, though it's pathetic that Mad Dog had to resort to putting in half-finished work just to hold the story together. All five captains do a decent job reading their lines, although some are obviously more enthusiastic than others (Scott Bakula sounds bitter, probably over Enterprise getting cut short).”
“To start with, the controls are simply atrocious.”
“When the game does try to present more elaborate scenarios, they're so badly designed and unbalanced that they're just frustrating rather than fun.”
“Players had better get used to frustration since there's no in-mission save or checkpoints.”
“In the end, Star Trek: Legacy reeks of missed opportunities and features cut to make a ship date. In any ordinary game, that would be sad enough. For this to be done to Star Trek: Legacy is almost criminal. This was supposed to be the 40th Anniversary game, the one that fans had been waiting for through all the years of dreck like Star Trek: Shattered Universe. Well, keep those hailing frequencies open. That great Trek game has got to be out there, and Star Trek: Legacy surely isn't it.”
Acidrain
http://uk.pc.gamespy.com/pc/star-trek-legacy/751151p2.html
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Psh!! This jerk reviewer played a few missions in the campaign and gave up. And yet again, a reviewer that never figured out how to target ships. Pathetic. The guys is totally clueless. If he had played the game, he could not only have cited a number of better missions but he might also have noted a great deal more pertinent flaws that the game has. I can't believe people make money off this half-assed crap.
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I agree with you this time, Lepton. This game is growing on me slowly. I play a bit of of a jerky game on low settings at this point, but I did manage to beat someone just using my keyboard and mouse. ;D
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I don't have a machine that'll run the PC version, but I see going out to buy a 360 + Legacy to be a worthwhile investment.
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I finally bought it, I can't figure out how to target ships either :)
I'll try it again after it is patched as I've had a couple mysterious lock-ups when I tried to go through the first mission (X2 4800, 2 GB Corsair RAM, Radeon X800 AGP 8X, Windows installed 2 days ago.)
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Mine is still in it's store wrap and probably going back. They shipped this thing broken, with a manual with x-box instructions and 1998 armada files. It's insulting and I don't want to be one of those developer butt-kissers over at the legacy forums who list all the problems and then say "but thank you for making a star trek title". Learning to enjoy a poor product is wrong.
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Mine is still in it's store wrap and probably going back. They shipped this thing broken, with a manual with x-box instructions and 1998 armada files. It's insulting and I don't want to be one of those developer butt-kissers over at the legacy forums who list all the problems and then say "but thank you for making a star trek title". Learning to enjoy a poor product is wrong.
They call that "lowering the bar". The scenario is fairly common in the gaming industry...rushed for xmas. Bethesda did that with Tribunal their first Morrowind expansion.
Generally I've heard modders say nicer things than experienced ST players about it. The way I see they are more interested in what they can do with it than what comes out of the box. New graphics, codes or whatever is raw material they can work with.
And that makes sense I guess.
The up side is we've seen a few "old" and new faces on gspy playing SFC. The old "comne in from the cold" scenario.
:)
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The problem with modders saving thwe game is a lack of standards, so from what I've read, if you can get into a multiplayer game, good luck on actually playing it since many are forgetting to use the right install.
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Mine is still in it's store wrap and probably going back. They shipped this thing broken, with a manual with x-box instructions and 1998 armada files. It's insulting and I don't want to be one of those developer butt-kissers over at the legacy forums who list all the problems and then say "but thank you for making a star trek title". Learning to enjoy a poor product is wrong.
I took it back yesterday and bought the time travel star trek compilation DVD. ;D
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Thanks for the Heads up. :thumbsup: I have decided not to spend 50$,just to get pissed off and frustrated.
These guys really need to stop rushing games out half assed,and incomplete. >:( >:( >:( Its getting so I wont even take notice, or expect anything, until I can verify if it really works as promised.
This really ticks me off to no end. I was looking forward to a good new Trek game.
I'm just going to stay with OP it just keeps getting better any way.