Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force
Amazon.com ReviewStar Trek Voyager: Elite Force is as close as we've come so far to actually being able to participate in an away team mission. The plot of this first-person shooter is pure Star Trek: during a battle with an alien ship, the badly damaged USS Voyager is transported by mysterious means to a strange spaceship graveyard. It isn't long before the Voyager crew members discover they aren't the only abductees trying to patch their vessel together and escape, and the adventure begins. As a member of Voyager's newly formed hazard team, it's your job to secure required repair materials, gather information about the other survivors, and ultimately enable Voyager to resume its long journey home. Frequently there are two or more team members with you (including familiar faces like Seven of Nine), which lets missions play out more like episodes from the series than a solo firefight that just happens to take place in a Star Trek setting. Other team members will disable security fields, analyze data, converse with you as the mission progresses, and add some much-needed firepower in the tough battle sequences. Elite Force uses the Quake III engine to good effect, serving up some beautiful environments, colorful special effects, and smooth frame rates. The architecture used by each race is unique so that it isn't too repetitive. Elite Force stays very true to the source material, as we discovered the first time we beamed into a Borg cube and watched the inhabitants march by as if we weren't there. We shot a passing Borg to see what would happen, the massive environment sprung to life as the threat was detected and dozens of angry Borg converged on our position. The cast of the TV series provided the voices for their characters in the game, and the artists painstakingly modeled the interior of Voyager. It all lends an authentic flair to this fun game that belongs in the collection of any Star Trek fan. --T. Byrl Baker
Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force is as close as we've come so far to actually being able to participate in an away team mission. The plot of this first-person shooter is pure Star Trek: during a battle with an alien ship, the badly damaged USS Voyager is transported by mysterious means to a strange spaceship graveyard. It isn't long before the Voyager crew members discover they aren't the only abductees trying to patch their vessel together and escape, and the adventure begins. As a member of Voyager's newly formed hazard team, it's your job to secure required repair materials, gather information about the other survivors, and ultimately enable Voyager to resume its long journey home. Frequently there are two or more team members with you (including familiar faces like Seven of Nine), which lets missions play out more like episodes from the series than a solo firefight that just happens to take place in a Star Trek setting. Other team members will disable security fields, analyze data, converse with you as the mission progresses, and add some much-needed firepower in the tough battle sequences. Elite Force uses the Quake III engine to good effect, serving up some beautiful environments, colorful special effects, and smooth frame rates. Our only gripe is that all the missions take place inside various spacecraft, but the architecture used by each race is unique so that it isn't too repetitive. Elite Force stays very true to the source material, as we discovered the first time we beamed into a Borg cube and watched the inhabitants march by as if we weren't there. We shot a passing Borg to see what would happen, and the massive environment sprung to life as the threat was detected and dozens of angry Borg converged on our position. The cast of the TV series provided the voices for their characters in the game, and the artists painstakingly modeled the interior of Voyager. It all lends an authentic flair to this fun game that belongs in the collection of any Star Trek fan. --T. Byrl Baker Pros: - Almost like participating in an episode of the show
- Better than average voice acting
- Authentic environments, visuals, and sounds add to the experience
Cons:- Somewhat boring weapons
- Plot-driven story line forces linear mission design
Elite Force is the ultimate in sci-fi first-person shooter action, using the Quake III Arena engine--the best 3-D shooter engine in existence. The first game based on the Star Trek Voyager universe, Elite Force pits players against a multitude of Star Trek enemies, including the relentless Borg and never-before-seen aliens in intense single-player and multiplayer combat missions. Elite Force has eight missions, plus between-missions game play on the Voyager ship. Each mission consists of multiple levels, ranging from 2 to 5. All away missions take place on other alien space ships or space stations.
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but the Borg are hard to kill with their shields (I use god. if u played JK2 be4 this. Well kind of.
this game is awesome. Its almost easy. don't contraadict me.).
wish I have. I lept into it. Its fun.
Anyway, multiplayer online play is STILL ongoing for STEF 1 but there was hardly any for the second. With absolute certainty, this is the absolute best first person role playing and first person shooter combined for the Star Trek game genre. The original EF story line is awesome and certainly keeps your interest for the duration of the game. The better graphics of the second one and the fact that it is picking up after Voyager returns to Earth (at the game's beginning) and you end up working on the Enterprise for our favorite bald captain with open space before you and a new group of Elite Force members who are not quite as interesting as the other one on VGER. If there was a third installment, and it used the latest graphics technologies available, I would buy it in a heartbeat. There were high expectations for the second installment of Elite Force and I believe that the second one would have been beter with an improved storyline. If you are looking for single player action, get both games as they will be worth your money if you at least like Star Trek and you will enjoy them.
It uses the same "sound as wallpaper" approach to background music, so there isn't a single nanosecond that isn't drenched in bland New Age elevator muzak. But it IS a lot more fun and entertaining than Star Trek's been for at least fifteen years, and that ain't bad, either. The team's just been created when Voyager (rr.). So, why am I here, giving a Star Trek game a good review. It should've been cancelled years ago. gets sucked into a mysterious region of space and immobilized.
Deep Space Nine is just a badly disguised clone of Babylon 5. Can't do it. Since Voyager (grr.).is on the far side of the galaxy, far away from any backup, Janeway and Tuvok develop a new kind of away team. I liked the original series, and Next Generation was pretty good for a while, but after Roddenberry died, everything fell apart. And above all, you never ONCE hear anyone say anything remotely like "Modify the subspace harmonic phase variance yada yada yada." If I never hear that weak plot device crap again, it'll be too soon. That one's easy enough to fix, though, if you do what I do; turn the sound off and wait it out. Simple; because it's everything the shows and movies stopped being a long time ago:.
I used to love it, but I try to watch it now, and.no. Voyager was boring, uninspired, repetitive, and flatter than a piece of paper. Who knew. They're even FUNNY when they tell JOKES. Not only that, but you're limited to only two types of ammunition for eight different weapons, so if you run out of one of those two, half your arsenal's kaput. The idea behind the game is this.
Please. Enterprise. And worst of all, at some points, you have to LISTEN to the boring regular VOYAGER cast members while they spout off about unimportant crap. It's thrilling.
I can't take Star Trek. Raven Software did a great job on this game. Your teammates all have their own personalities and functions, and the patter between them is actually worth listening to. I know I should end this review with something inspiring, like how in the right hands, even a lump of coal can shine like a diamond, but I've got nothing. This new unit, called the Hazard Team, is made up of special forces crewmen assembled to take on challenging missions that regulars can't handle, like a SWAT team compared to regular police.
The environments are bigger than what you'd expect from the TV shows, the aliens are more imaginative, the weapons are much more impressive and realistic, and the combat is gripping in some parts, especially when you're facing a stampede of Borg. Unfortunately, the game does fizzle in a few places. It's challenging. And during the game, you'll have run-ins with mysterious aliens, hostile scavengers, the Borg, and a new race created only for this game. Some of the weapons don't have convincing sounds, like the Tetryon Gatling Gun; you'd think it was shooting soap bubbles.
Even the UPN executives couldn't keep that thing going. You play as Ensign Alex (or Alexandria.how PC) Munro, the Hazard Team's second-in-command. It makes you think. It's exciting. The people in it are actual PEOPLE, not a bunch of cardboard cutouts in black pajamas and weird makeup trying to advance the useless plot.
Not only that, it has things and concepts in it that not only make you think, "Yeah, they SHOULD have something like that," it'll also make you say, "Why didn't they EVER have that.".
Fans of Star Trek should love this game, fans of Voyager WILL loves this game. A MustHAVE. Buy this game. I have had Elite Force for years, and I have to say that it is just as fun as it was when I first played the game. Fighting the Borg face to face is really amazing, talking to the crew is even cooler. You really do feel like you are part of the Voyager crew as the entire cast (minus Kes) returns to reprise their roles we all know and love from the series. The story is sharp and the acting is even sharper. A must have for all my fellow Trekkies/Trekkers/And fans who don't like the label.
Any fan of Voyager would like it. Now you have all the weapons (if you have the expansion pack for Elite Force installed, you also get a tricorder and a hypospray). Go to the C:/Raven/Star Trek Voyager Elite Force/Baseef (or where you installed Elite Force) then click on the folder titled "Screenshots". Its even better with cheats:. type "god" then hit enter. The only thing that could improve this is the expansion pack and its "explore voyager" mode.
to view them. press tilda (the key next to 1 which looks like this `) and. When in the game, press "F11" and you take a screenshot. All the screenshots are in.tga format so you need Microsoft Picture It. And, with all the modifications, multiplayer (holomatch) maps and skins (what your character looks like) you can download it certainly gets more fun. This game is sooooooo fun.
Type "give all" and hit enter. Now you have infinte health and armor.
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