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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Another monument to the gilded age,
By Valjean (Salem, Ma United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Star Trek: Federation Compilation (CD-ROM)
If you were a PC gamer before the incarnation of the internet, you will remember a time when PC games were thoughtful and catered to a target audience of intelligent gamers who were looking for intellectual stimulation and an escape from reality. Star Trek: 25th anniversary and Judgement Rites provide just such an experience to the gamer. Both of the orignal games are role-playing adventures. Each game contains seven "original" episodes based on the old series characters (to which all of the actors were kind enough to lend thier voices). To get through each episode, you have to solve puzzles, which are very thoughtfully crafted, and are accordingly rated on your performance by starfleet. When I bought these games (on DOS diskettes) back in the early-90's, there was no speech, but I still found the episodes very engaging. Only recently, did I disover "the Federation Compilation" had restructured both games for Windows and thought I would give it a try. Much to my suprise, I had forgotten the solutions to many of the puzzles and with the voices added, I'm having a great time playing both games again. My biggest apprehension in buying the Fed. Compilation (which has been discontinued by Interplay), was the idea that the games might not work under Windows ME since they are so antiquated. I bit the bullet and took a chance and bought them from a private seller. Have no fear, they work wonderful and smooth on my boss Pentium 4 monster machine under Windows ME. Get them if you can! The only problems with the games now were the same problems back in the early-90's. The graphics are somewhat pixelated. This is technically only a problem when you can't see an item on the screen that you need to solve a puzzle (spoiler: look for the dismembered klingon hand in the first episode next to the dead kilingons). But, hey, if it's a tradeoff between playing a thoughtfully constructed "old game" with antiquated sounds and graphics versus playing a repetitive modern first person shooter with dynamite graphics (which is all companies seem to be releasing nowadays), I'll take the old over the new.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Very fun games but technical issues need to be addressed.,
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This review is from: Star Trek: Federation Compilation (CD-ROM)
Don't get me wrong when you read this review as the games are very fun and challenging, but it is my intent to assist everyone with the technical issues involved with getting this to run as it is no longer supported by Interplay. Also so you, as the reader, understand what's involved in getting this to run on your system. Ok, first of all, 25th Anniversary and Judgement Rights are compatible with Windows but are NOT Windows based programs; they are DOS based. If you are running Windows XP, you will need to adjust the settings in the root directory manually in order for the games to work without having to make a boot disk. To do this, you will need to go into the properties settings for the games in root directory and manually set the memory requirements for the games to run outside of DOS. I'm not sure about the other versions of Windows but I can only assume it is basically the same. As you right click on the EXE. file, in the file directory, and select properties, you should see a little tab named "Memory". As you see this, you will see the settings for "Expanded Memory", and "Extended Memory". Set the Expanded to "Auto" and Extended to no less than "2048" and you are on your way to playing the games. Another note, your sound card settings must be set manually in order for the sound properties to work correctly. To do this, you will need to know your system configuration. My NVIDIA sound card works well, but I had to set the settings manually. Any attempt to get Windows to do it for you, will result in game crashes and unless these are set properly for Judgement Rights, the game will not run at all. The Setup File in Judgement Rights will give you a basic idea of how most Sound Cards are set up but you don't get this luxury with 25th Anniversary. Hopefully, this is helpful. The games are awesome when you get them running properly.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Product,
By A Customer
This review is from: Star Trek: Federation Compilation (CD-ROM)
The first to games are the best. The graphics are a little out-dated, but the storyline is excellent, and challenging. A must buy for any Star Trek fan. My only problem was with Starfleet Academy. Basically, it was Wing Commander, only Star Trek style. The video and graphics in it are great, but I was hoping for a little more adventure than plotting courses to intersept enemy Klingon ships.But don't let this stop you. I would highly recommend this game pack to any Trek fan. It's a great deal for what you get.
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