Seller:Little Batty Entertainment Rating:22 reviews
Format:CD-ROM Platforms:Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95 Genre:Action Games ESRB:Teen Media:CD-ROM Autographed:No Memorabilia:No Age:12 - 20 years Operating System:Windows 95 Shipping Weight (lbs):0.3 Dimensions (in):7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
Model:30025 UPC:047875300255 EAN:0047875300255
Release Date:March 14, 2001 Availability:Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Product Description Complex alien surroundings are the setting for your stealth missions, including Romulan outposts, Borg cubes, and unpredictable foreign landscapes. Select from 17 highly trained specialists to form the perfect squad for each mission.
Amazon.com Review Star Trek: Away Team brings Gene Roddenberry's famous creation to yet another game genre: tactical strategy. Tactical strategy is typically turn-based, only this one is in real time. Still, Away Team has a lot more in common with games like X-Com, Jagged Alliance, and Baldur's Gate than it does with StarCraft.
The concept casts you as commander of a Federation commando group. Using new technology, you and your crew are chartered to infiltrate galactic hot spots and efficiently handle problems. Your best tech toy is a ship that, thanks to an experimental holographic projector, can look like anything you want it to. This variable cloak lets your team move into position to beam down and take care of the problem with minimum fuss.
Commander Data (voiced by Brent Spiner of Star Trek: The Next Generation) doles out advice as you outfit your team and carry out diverse missions, such as hit and runs, rescues, sabotage, and raids, using all kinds of cool Federation tools and weaponry. Each team member has his or her own unique skills and equipment. For example, the group leader has grenades, the Russian engineer is the only one who can use a Romulan cloaking device, and your Vulcan security officer can mind meld with the enemy, giving you temporary control of him.
The strategy is solid and the game is brisk and attractive, although it is crippled with substandard artificial intelligence. Your troops aren't smart enough to return fire on their own, and you'll begin to wonder if the enemy has any battle plan at all. Missions are puzzlelike and repetition is necessary, often tediously so. And there is only a tiny fraction of the multiplayer options a game like this should have. Multiplayer is only available in cooperative mode and only then on linked computers at home. What? You don't have two or more computers linked at home? Sorry--there are no Internet options. --Bob Andrews
Pros:
Interesting concept
A few really good missions
Decent graphics
Cons:
Poor AI
Sparse multiplayer
Amazon.com Product Description Star Trek: Away Team puts you in charge of an elite group of officers brought together to take care of the Federation's dirty laundry. Your Special Forces unit will consist of 22 characters, each with a unique expertise, such as medicine, engineering, science, security, and command. Before each of the 18 missions, you'll pick a team consisting of three to six officers, based on what type of skills you'll need in order to complete the mission. During the missions you'll view the game from a classic isometric perspective, and can move your squad in real time or pause the game to issue commands. Enemies include Borg, Klingons, Romulans, and rogue Federation members. Locations include Qu'nos, Romulus, Earth, and Vulcan. Equipment includes tricorders, phasers, hyposprays, and phaser rifles.
Don't BotherApril 19, 2010 Gamecrazy(Albuq, NM USA) Levels are way to small and game play isn't very exciting. Characters wont think for themselves at all and if one gets killed you lose; So much for the red shirts!
I'm not even sure it was worth the $10 I paid for it.
WoWJanuary 7, 2010 Lu Anne Humphrey(Renton, Wa. USA) I always enjoy Star Trek shows or games. This is a great game. Thank you
Pretty cool for Trek fansNovember 13, 2008 Adam Callan(Marin County , CA) Disclaimer: I am a huge Star Trek fan and I'm sure that influences my rating.
I bought this game years ago and almost got to the final mission, but the CD was stolen before I could finish it. I saw it on Amazon for about $7.00 and decided to grab it. I forgot how much I liked the game until I put it back in the dvd drive. Decent graphics, pretty good story, a few familiar locations and characters (Brent Spiner as Data and Michael Dorn as Worf), and one of my favorite ships in Star Trek, the USS Incursion.
If you like Star Trek, it's a pretty fun game that still works on XP and will give you hours of enjoyment. For $7.00 with shipping I am happy with my purchase and I'm excited to go and play it.
st-atNovember 3, 2006 Jason B. Goodell great game. had the demo years ago but could never find the game. good game play. don't need a high end system to enjoy this one.
A very fun game for the Trek fan.October 13, 2005 Graphixman(Coastal Maine) I first picked this game up because I hadn't played a good Star Trek game for a while, and this was on sale. So even though it got mixed reviews, and I liked first person shooters better (like the Star Trek Voyager game) I picked it up and installed it. Right from the start I liked it. Voices from the TV shows, Brent Spiner returns as Data to guide you though the first mission so you know how to approach it, as well as intruguing new characters and ships all pull you into the game play. I like it and if your teeterting on buying it, just do it and enjoy the ride.
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