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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Could Have Done Better in 40 Years, November 10, 2006
Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
The fact is there are practically no Star Trek games on the market. So when one is released there is much doubt as to whether it can provide any real satisfaction. Tactical Assault is not what I expected, and it's not really what I wanted in a Star Trek video game.
In itself the game isn't terrible. The graphics are acceptable, the gameplay is sufficient (if not simplistic), and the story demands just enough of your attention. However, it certainly does not live up to its advertisment. It does not offer true 3D space battles. There isn't a great variety of ships to choose from and the missions all feel the same. But I suppose the worst part of this game is that there is no tactical strategy involved. Your objective is to shoot down your enemy's shields while protecting your own. There is no depth, no thought, no creativity here.
If you're a diehard fan, it might be worth a gander. If you're looking for a simple space dogfighting game, you've come to the right place. If you're looking for a sci-fi game which requires strong tactical ability, search elsewhere.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Where's the strategy?, November 10, 2006
Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
I won't comment on the accuracy of the Star Trek canon in this game but if you are considering purchasing it consider the following: This game is not particularly stragetic in nature, you serve as the captain of a starship and you engage in intergalatic dogfights with multiple allies and multiple bogies. These battles are conducted in a two-dimensional environment rather than a true aerial environment aka there is no vertical plane only horizontal navigation.
Because of the limited engagement environment this game quickly becomes repetitive as you deploy the same "Tactics" over and over (blast the same shield over and over until you can breach their hull). I feel the game would be better served if it lived up the hype on the box by allowing you to create fleets of starships and strategically deploying them, but if you prefer flight simulators this game serves as a reasonable approximation of one.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Drawn out and saves die, June 11, 2007
Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars
Much of the actual function of the game has already been documented and reviewed, so I will be more brief.
The game play is based on communicating, scanning, warping, battle, and upgrades.
Communicating and Scanning are basically the same thing. It's a time sink but if you skip through it quickly, you might miss some detail you need. It's rare, but you never know, so you waste time reading pointless chatter.
Warping replays the same sort of scene each time, so it's a waste of 3 seconds each time.
Battle is all about hitting red alert prior to warping, so your shields are charged. You keep your least damaged part of the shields facing the enemy, and you spin around to fire rear weapons sometimes.
Tactics are contrived. If you pick the wrong ship to attack first, you pretty much die. The AI uses triggers such as damage level of ship X to cause Ship Y and Ship Z to fly away.
Also, you can't see much around you when you have an enemy selected. Invariably, you spend the entire battle flying in a big circle to keep your shields lined up right. Very often, this leads to crashing into a planet, asteroid, or starbase. There's no warning, just BAM "We can't survive this level of damage much longer, captain." then BOOM.
Sometimes, you're three warps into a mission, and you are heavily damaged. You have to park and wait for your emergency power to regenerate, because when you warp in, your shields will regen 20%, but your emergency power will not. If you forget leave the DS to regen shields, you can't have it folded up.
The saving grace for the game are upgrades. You can pick how to improve your ship by allocating earned points, based on mission completion rating, towards your crew. Sometimes, it's hard to figure out the right upgrades to get, but it's the addictive part of the game.
But, don't let that convince you to buy it. If you forget that you left it regenerating emergency power, and the DS powers off for low battery; or a child finds the DS and pulls out the game; or you have to turn the DS off in the middle of a mission...
...THEN IT WILL ERASE ALL STATS FOR YOUR PLAYER.
In other words, you don't just lose the mission you're at, but you go back to it being a brand new game. This happenned three times before I finally gave up.
This is an unacceptable problem with the game.
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