Customer Reviews

Star Trek: Starship Creator

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(10)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

You can't mix and match parts from different ships or rearrange the how the parts fit together. You only get three options for each standard part on each ship. The Missions are sit back and watch .........until you grow old. There is absolutely no interaction between you and the mission. I will never buy anything from this software company again. Star Trek should never have licensed their name for this product.

most evrybody who has this game basically says that it's a bad game with a few nice points. but, i think it's a good game, with a few weak points. the music is AWESOME. you'd think John Williams directed it! i must admit, the selection of starships is rather low, and when i heard about the game, i thought i could mix, say a sovereign-class nacelle with an intrepid-class saucer. turns out ya can't. but, you can come up with some pretty different designs. and, after the deluxe version, 3 more classes, 2 being extremely awesome! is starship creator slow? not for me, but my comp. has 333 mhz and 64 RAM. maybe it just works better on Macs, i dunno. don't evn think about getting this if you don't know the trek world, but if you are a hard-core trekkie, i strongly recommend it.

Being an admitted Trekkie, I was excited to try Starship Creator to try my hand at creating the ultimate starship and blasting some pesky Klingons. The problem is, there are a lot of obstacles in the way of accomplishing this. The game touts itself as a "starship creator," with several class types to mix and match from. In actuality, you have a few ship types and a few customizeable options for each. It doesn't allow for too much creativity. And my dreams of teaming up James T. Kirk with Jean-Luc Picard were dashed. When selecting a crew for your ship, you can only choose a crew from the ship's time period. For example, only characters from the original series can fly in the original Enterprise ship class... Kirk cannot be selected to pilot the ship classes from Next Generation or Voyager. Thus, Kirk and Picard can not serve on the same crew, or Data and Spock, or Sulu and Janeway. This took a lot of the fun out for me. The missions you fly with the ship are simply brutal. There's precious little action and it takes a LONG time, even with the time acceleration on. So I'd say even if you're a Trek fan, I'd be careful of this one.

I really hate to agree--I work for MacMillan!

The game is simply not enough--I was hoping for a great deal more, and it doesn't deliver.

First--the software itself. It uses a Quicktime-based format that should result in some pretty spectacular graphics. Unfortunately, the game doesn't deliver them, and what is delivered is delivered with infuriating slowness. The "Systems" screen, especially, is terrible; slow to load almost everything, no matter how much RAM you give the program. It's annoying to select something on the clunky drop-down menus, then have to wait for (no exaggeration) 20 seconds or so before the selection even STARTS to load. Other problems abound; don't even try to use the page that supposedly allows you to preview your ship in a "wireframe model"; it doesn't work, and often crashes. So does naming your ship. you will more often than not get a "code error" that crashes the game then and there. And the "Missions"--these are missions? If I want to see a static display where the only action is a scroll of words, I'll just read a "Star Trek" novel--which is probably more exciting. I've learned to simply go read or watch TV--let the ship run along on its own.

In fairness, I will mention that the new "Expanded" version is a bit better--the bugs that crash the machine in the naming and preview areas are now fixed, and it also adds some missions with actual graphics (static ones, anyway) as well as a few new ships. However, those are the only improvements--not nearly enough for my taste.

Did I mention that MacMillan is under new ownership now? =-)

Starship Creator sounds like every Star Trek fan's dream: Build your ship, choose your "dream" crew and then fly it.

Once you start to build your ship, you will soon see that there isn't much freedom to build a ship. You have a pre-set amount of parts to choose from and that is it.

Then you get to choose your crew, which is fun, because you can choose from many of the established characters.

But once you get to fly your ship, the programs looses all of it's since of awe. It is very boring from this point forward.

Yes, this is yet another collectors item, but nothing more.

I bought this game because it sounded good, make your own ship and fly it around. When you are building your ship the only thing limiting what you can put in your ship is energy, but you have enough energy to put in the maximum of everything. Then when you are picking your crew it doesnt make any difference who you pick, ther are no specials, and the crew never does anything, you don't even have to pick anyone. There is no plot, you just pick a mission from the list and it does it, then you pick another one. Finally, you don't even get to fly your ship! You just watch a picture of a ship move slowly across the screen and read the occasional messages. The only interaction is one or two questions per mission witch usually are things like "What are our orders? Return to Base or Stay Here?" Don't Waste your money on this game, if you can even call it that.

Well, first off, I must say I was dissapointed when I got to the "Man your own mission" part. But otherwise, I liked the product. It starts out with a prompt for your name, then you can go from there. You choose a class of starship, then you retro fit it with your choice of nacelles, hulls, and saucer sections. I was slightly dissapointed here, because you only get 3-5 choices with each item. What would be nice, is if you could take parts from other classes of ship, and add them to your ship. For example: a set of Defiant class nacelles, on an Intrepid class ship. But the 3-D view of your ship is incomplete. In several places the hull is discolored, and mishapen. Pity there' s a 12 character name limit. Pity it assigns you a registry #. As for the innards, you must really study the TNG Tech Manual before you can fill up your ship in the Expert mode. I like the fact though, that you can choose whether you want high quality, or discount parts in your ship, and you can forego the holodecks, and luxury quarters, until you get some more credits. As a Star Trek nut, I wish there were some more things you could do with the bowels of the ship. The missions are pathetic. It starts off with exciting music when it automatically throws itself into warp, but after those thirty seconds are up, it's quiet until you get there. Don't run real-time mode unless you have all day to play with your game. What also really stinks, is you can't just minimize the window, and do something else until your mission is complete. And if you do go into "stealth" mode, you can't get back into the game. Good if you want to know more about the insides of a ship, bad if you've seen 10 or fewer ST episodes. My advice, wait until it goes in the sale bins, or check out the sequel coming soon.

The game is a little limiting, but the missions can be different depending on your starship. Just the other day I almost lost a starship to some parasites. And to all those that say the missions are very slow, there is a button that accelerates the mission time. I do, however, agree with other reviewers on this point. THIS GAME IS FOR TREKKIES ONLY. Anybody else will be bored in an hour or two. Also, those that say the game runs slow must be running it on a 486,100 MZH computer. And even on that speed computer it isn't that slow. However I recommend a Pentium 200 MZH or faster computer. Well, that's all.

I purchased this Starship Creator Deluxe Edition. I thought I got a good deal and can't wait to load it into my Pentium II computer. Until I found I just made one big mistake in my life for purchased it.

No! Even if you are a Star Trek Fan you won't like it. And even if you have the best computer, this game won't do any good.

First of all, you won't get to create or design anything. I am an aerospace engineering student at UCLA, and I found it neither entertaining or educating. Second, you won't get any real 3-D graphics at all. The graphics is slightly better than the X-Wing game came out in 1993.

If you try to name your own starships and print them out to show your friends, they will laugh at you. Because the poor graphics looks like you download them from some freeware, and this program can't even put the letters in their actual place on the ship's hull.

Anyone who gave even one star to this title was too generous!

Starship Creator: Review by, Jay

I would say that this is a good game if you are intrested in the different classes and staffing ships. However, when I bought this, I was expecting to design my own ships, not choose a class, name it, staff it, and choose parts for it. The missions are horrible. They are time consuming and you have no power once they are started. The dialoge, which supposedly happens between different crewmembers, is the same each time, boring, and they would not really say those things. The graphics and sound are the best part of this game, as well as the background information on the crewmembers. There is no differece between the Intrpid class and Constitution class, except in capacity in equipment and etc. Don't waste your money, the games on startrek.com are cheaper, and better than this game right here.