Star Trek: Hidden Evil

by ACTIVISION

Product Details

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• ASIN: B0000296ZH
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: November 16, 1999
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,348 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Star Trek: Hidden Evil continues the story line from the film Star Trek: Insurrection, placing the player in the role of Ensign Sovok, a young Vulcan male fresh from Starfleet Academy. During the course of the game, Ensign Sovok must investigate excavated relics, combat the nefarious Romulans, and rescue Captain Picard from danger.

Guiding Ensign Sovok from a third-person perspective, the player explores the planet, speaking with other Starfleet officers--including Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Commander Data (Brent Spiner)--and planet residents to advance the story line. Gameplay follows standard action-adventure conventions such as puzzle solving and dialogue sequences. Infrequent action segments feature phaser combat with Romulan guards.

Star Trek: Hidden Evil's easy-to-use interface closely resembles the movie's art design, which should please die-hard fans. Sovok must use a variety of Star Trek tricks and tools, including the communication badge, tricorder, phaser, and Vulcan neck pinch, in order to solve key situations and combat the Romulan enemies. Adventure fans will be pleased with Star Trek: Hidden Evil; the story line is solid and the puzzles are challenging. Serious action gamers, though, will find Hidden Evil's combat sequences lacking. --Doug Radcliffe

Pros:

• Includes likenesses and voices of Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner
• Interface and visuals capture the essence of Star Trek
• Adventure sequences offer challenging and interesting puzzles

Cons:

• Doesn't offer many hours of gameplay
• Limited action sequences create uninteresting combat

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Customer Reviews

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good try but falls short.., November 27, 1999

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Brian A. Wolters (Cabot, Arkansas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Star Trek: Hidden Evil (CD-ROM)

I am a Star Trek fan. I admit it. And I look forward to interactive games about Star Trek. However, most releases are not very good (Starfleet Command, Starship Creator to name a few) and it makes we wonder if we are finally going to get a great Star Trek game. Hidden Evil is a good attempt, but has many faults. There is no mouse or joystick support. The game is pretty easy and way too short. And for the best "cut scenes," you have to install the complete game on the hard drive. To say things in it's favor, the graphics are good (I only tested the 3DFx version,) the sound and music are well done, and the game approaches greatness several times, but falls flat. If you are a Star Trek fan and like to collect the software titles, I would recommend this, but don't expect too much. I give this title a "C."

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Trek Experience, Horrible Game, November 28, 1999

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Walter Cook (Northfield, Minnesota) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Trek: Hidden Evil (CD-ROM)

This game is for Trek diehards only. Its incredibly easy. Even Forrest Gump could beat it in about six or eight hours. It does a great job of recreating the experience of a Trek episode with beautiful graphics, interesting storyline, and a nice soundtrack. However, the game control is clumsy and the puzzles are very simplistic. Again, good Trek experience, but a miserable game.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good Star Trek - Poor Game, January 4, 2000

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[e-mail] (Eastern Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Trek: Hidden Evil (CD-ROM)

Hidden Evil is a great game plot in search of a real game. Activison did a very good job capturing the feel of the Star Trak genre. The graphics and sound quality are quite good. However, as a game Hidden Evil falls woefully short of the mark. The puzzles are not challenging. The overall enviroment is very two dimensional despite ustilizing true 3-D for generating the main characters. You can't fall off a bridge even if you try. But the worst part is the keyboard-only control. It is extremely cumbersome and remeniscent of the late 1980's, when PC adventure games were just crawling out of the "text-only" primordeal soup. In fact, much of the game's combat difficulty comes from the interface instead of the opponents.

It's a shame such a good concept was wasted by apparent laziness on the part of Activision.