Star Trek: ConQuest Online

by ACTIVISION

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004T1N2
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 8 x 2.8 inches ; 10.6 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: June 26, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #43,773 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

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In Star Trek: ConQuest Online, gamers assume the role of a Q, an all-powerful being who is anxious to reign most clever amongst a bevy of other Qs. By utilizing collectible pieces from Star Trek: The Next Generation, the player manipulates the galaxy, hoping to outwit the competition and emerge victorious.

Players start off with a predetermined set of pieces, constructed from a group of more than 150 characters, weapons, and ships, each with varying abilities and value. Players use their pieces to gain control of the planets in their quadrant, as well as to attack and fend off their opponent's pieces. A player wins by seizing control of the challenger's home planet and capturing the Q or by holding off an opponent long enough to rack up the necessary points.

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Customer Reviews

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Broken Game, November 4, 2007

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M. Hulbert "vaskaville" (Idaho.) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Star Trek: ConQuest Online (CD-ROM)

So I got this game and guess what I could not get it going looks like they terminated the whole server and the site to where you could not play it anymore. So each time I tried to play the game it said the site had been terminated so O well.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Beware, February 25, 2001

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AJ - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Trek: ConQuest Online (CD-ROM)

This game stinks it is a poor try at combining chess and Magic the Gathering it got a 17% in Pc gamer and its entire purpuse is to make you buy stuff at high prices STAY AWAY!!

10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars HORRIBLE game! How can anyone like this game?, September 24, 2000

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S. Chappell "S" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Star Trek: ConQuest Online (CD-ROM)

I suspect the board meeting for this game went something like this:

Boss: Hmm. You know, We need money.

Designer:Yeah...

Boss: Hmm.

Designer:Oh well, I'm going to go play a game called Sanctum - I just paid $40 for more digital cards! Later-

Boss: What? You paid for digital cards? We can do this!

Designer:Yeah, but I don't really have a plot for the game, a story, game design experience or a development team worth a troupe of trained monkeys.

Boss: True...hmmmm... I know, We'll just slap "Star Trek" on it and someone will buy it!

For those that do not know, Let me make you a bit more familiar with what type of game ConQuest On-Line is.

ConQuest is an online strategy game that deals with digital pieces. You actually buy these pieces from "Starter" and "Booster" packs, much like collectable card games. You can then trade them with other players.

Different pieces have different rarities and abilities, and the game is separated into rounds where you can play certain pieces and try to defeat your opponent.

While this can be a great concept, After all, Sanctum by Digital Addition accomplished just that, this version of it has very serious flaws.

1. The logic in the game in terms of movement, times you can play pieces and move things as well as actually winning is all hokey and flawed. It makes very little sense. For a digital strategy game, this part is essential and I could overlook all other shortcomings if at heart it was a good logical game.

2. The digital pieces that you obtain are not customized. You simply have a picture of a miniature with most of them. No unique artwork like there is with Sanctum.

3. What Star Trek game would be incomplete without bugs? This game made up for that and took all of Voyager and Armada's bugs (Other Star Trek games which are actually good) Most of these bugs effect game logic.

4. The interface is clunky. Simple tasks are uneededly complex.

5. Horrible graphics. (Generally unneeded in this type of game, assuming the rest of the game is good.... which it isn't.)

6. The game is just plain boring.

If you are a fan of collectable card games and enjoy strategy akin to chess, I strongly recommend that you check out Sanctum - a game that is worth your time and money and leave this game behind, nay, run from this game as quickly as you can... It is the worst one I have played this year.