Customer Reviews

Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force Expansion

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

 

 

Single player options? Come on, this takes place smack dab in the middle of the regular game, of course you're not going to wander around alien ships. Instead, you get some very unique (albeit short) holodeck campaigns and the tour. The tour wears off its novelty quickly, but provides nearly unlimited access to Voyager's important bits, without all those annoying warp core breaches and invading scavengers and forcefields and whatnot that hampered your ability to truly explore Voyager's innards in all their glory. The holodeck missions are just as good as the missions from the regular game. Considering the single-player restrictions that this expansion was placed under, the creators did a damn fine job.

Where this pack really shines, though, is multiplayer. While its true that the mods and skins are available online, nobody wants to spend hours searching for and downloading them - and even when you do get them, about half the time they don't even actually show up when you try to use them! And the maps, which totally rock, aren't available online at all. This expansion is worth the price for the maps alone, which, by the way, include Etherian maps and even a Capture the Flag map in space itself!

And to make everything even sweeter, Jeri Ryan finally does the voice of Seven of Nine - not only for the expansion, but the regular game was changed as well to include her! This, also, was single-handedly worth the price tag.

If you have Elite Force, you MUST get this expansion.

for starters, this does not add single player missions that are quiet like the original ones, not only that, the virtual voyager mode does contain some bugs, which happen while new decks are loading(like freezes, crashes to main menu and desktop) it adds a virtual vyager of decks 1-5, 8-11, and 15 it has 4 new holo-programs that are a captain proton mission, klingon compound attack, a garden program (with boothby waling around) where you get attacked by bio hulks, and a program called borg slayer which is third person, and is sort of a maze. single player also has a lot of stuff you can collect on different decks(like a raven plaque and elite force action figures that will all end up in your quarters. The game also has a lot of new skins, modes that are a Team Fortress(which is calle specialties), elimination(if you're killed you don't return to the game), disintergration(one shot kills, and everyone with phaser rifles), action hero(you are either action hero with all the guns killing other or other people trying to kill action hero to become action hero yourself) and the long awaited assimilation(you are either borg queen trying t assimilate everyone, or starfleet trying to kill the borg queen) but sadly, all of the multiplayer options can be found in the 1.2 patch with a few tweaks... overall-if you want to just walk around voyager, even beaming into some spots and find a bunch of stuff, and play some holo missions(short and relatively easy)this is for you, if you expect a totally new experience and a bunch of normal alien killing sngle player missions, keep waiting for elite force 2

This game Surprised me with the upgrades. I thought that when you buy the expantion pack that it upgraded the single player version of the game. It didn't. The only thing I think that changed, was when you cheat to get the Tricorder, it looks different. Now the Tour mode of Voyager was great. Great Detail. You can set off the Red Alert (Janeway Gets Mad) Self-Destruct the ship (Chakota shoots you). The hole thing with the Tour is that you hack into the computer and get all the access code. After that you can do anything. Shut down the warp core, get into officers quarters, use the replicator system. And all kinds of stuff. Overall, I think that it was an OK upgrade. Just for the Tour mode. They did add some maps in the internet games and added some models.

Elite Force is my favorite first person "shooter." The story and graphics are all top notch and it was a lot of fun to play. When I heard that there was going to be an expansion pack, I got myself ready for another engrossing adventure.

Well, I have to say that I was disappointed. It starts out good, though. You get to walk around Voyager without a time limit, which is very cool for Trek fans. You can read up on past missions, read personal logs and even use a replicator. This is nice, but I wanted to make my way to the holodeck to try the new missions.

So, I tried the Captain Proton episode. First of all, the black and white graphics are beautiful but that's where the fun ends. You can't save the game during the single player missions but after completing the Proton adventure within 10 minutes without dying, I realized that you don't need to save it. There isn't much challenge to it. Plus, the graphics slowed WAY down in may spots for an unknown reason (is a patch needed?) and I had to walk backwards for a while to remedy the problem. When I finally found "Satan's Robot" and the "girl", it was over before I knew it.

The other single player missions are uninspired and dull. A malfunctioned holodeck, shooting range and a Klingon base are all you get and the maps are quite small.

However, the additional maps for the holomatches are really good. They are much larger and even more graphically detailed. You also get a wider selection of opponents, including Janeway Borg and Captain Proton. Try out the "Singularity" map.

All in all, the Virtual Voyager is nice but there isn't much too it. If you want a good single player mode, try searching the net for MODS. There are some good ones out there! The new holomatches save this from being a total disaster.

This new expansion pack is full of new exciting things to do. My favorite part of this new software is the tour. You can bassicly do whatever you want to. Also you get 22-24 new holomatch games which are the best! If your're a voyager fan, you should definitly get this

If you can get it cheap, definitely pick up this expansion pack for the first "Elite Force" - one of the best Trek games ever made. The new disk is obviously tilted towards multiplayer, having limited additions for dedicated single-player users. There are new holomatches - though they seem arguably as good as those you can find for free on-line. For the single-player, this pack offers some nifty if-pointless missions on the holodeck, and a nifty is comparably pointless scavenger hunt where you must search the Voyager for action-figures of your favorite "Voyager" characters. There's also a wicked looking puzzle game pitting you against the Borg. The pack is built around a virtual-tour of the Voyager - much like those of the original EF, only without you having to be anywhere or meet anybody, and being able to visit any deck rather than those related to a specific mission/map.

The stuff here looks good, and while it's annoying to nitpick with quality, the problem here is that the stuff that looks nice shows how much better this pack could have been. The holodeck maps are excellent - including one inside of a Klingon base that boasts some of the best atmospherics of EF or even the "Jedi Knight" games also based on the QuakeIII engine. There's also a holo-map based on "Captain Proton" (in black and white, of course) which looks niftier than it is (you spend a lot of time just walking and dodging raygun blasts as you navigate the impressive looking canyons of "Dr. Chaotica". You finish the maps only to find yourself back on Voyager with little to do, wondering why the rest of the pack's offerings weren't as fun as the holodeck. The virtual tour is also a washout because there's a ton of detail and zero action - sort of descriptive of an episode of the show.

Some have sought and paid exorbitant sums for this pack thinking that 3rd party add-ons for "Elite Force" won't work without it. That may be true, but most issues relating to add-ons can normally be solved adjusting "hunkmegs" settings in the base game.

In short, single-player users are better off just sticking with the base game. The pack comes with some interesting yet otherwise unrewarding additions.

I thought the expansion pack was going to be more exiting. Just like the first one. I enjoyed many hours of the first verson. After you tour voyager the fun ends. There's not much to do. And there's nothing really added to Multyplayer. You could download the new patch and have the same multyplayer characters from the expansion pack. And if you want to new maps all you have to do is download them. The weapons is another thing. You can't use them to do anything fun. All you see is the Quake 3 engine going to work. By that, I meant, if you shoot a crew member you get killed, or the game ends and reloads. The only time you use the weapons for a purpose in the single-player mode is when your in the holo-deck. I really think they could have done a much better job.

I really liked the Elite Force game, though I felt like it was Lara Croft in a not so sexy outfit (I guess you can tell I chose the female lieutenant?). So, when I saw that there was an expansion pak out, I snapped that puppy up. Well, it was very disappointing for someone who likes single-player games. I can't recommend this expansion pak for people who like single-player games, maps, and mods.

If you think Im gonna pay $100 for this your off your rocker..I'll find it 'out there' on the www though..

It is a good plot and a good game too. The end boss is very hard which is bad because if you can't beat the end boss it is very bad but you can defeat the end boss if you cheat.