Posted on: June 8, 2022

pzogel

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Still the best Star Trek RTS

Despite having been released 22 years ago, Armada is still easily the best Star Trek RTS there is. First and foremost, you can tell that it is made by people who know and love their Star Trek. All the characters from the show are voiced by their real-life actors (including Patrick Stewart), and even some famous lines from the show or movies, such as 'Sir, it's the ENTERPRISE!' from First Contact, make an appearance. Having seen the entirety of TNG, DS9, and the TNG movies certainly helps when it comes to understanding all of the numerous references. In addition to that, and in sharp contrast to Armada II, the gameplay is (mostly) compatible with Star Trek canon. While Armada II often has you command upwards of 60 Sovereign-class vessels, Armada features smaller fleets of more durable ships. The shields act as the health bar, which too is largely in line with Star Trek canon. Like in actual Trek, the ships in Armada can take a beating, whereas an Akira-class vessel gets one-shotted by a starbase in Armada II. The only criticism one could come up with is that the gameplay isn't exactly deep or complex. 90% of the missions are beaten by simply producing a double-digit number of the most powerful ship available and sending them towards the enemy base. The missions that are an exception to this rule are easily the most fun ones. Armada is not a challenging game, and since there are only 20 missions in total, the game can be beaten in less than 15 hours. As for the version here on GOG, I'm honestly impressed. GOG's custom DirectDraw wrapper works perfectly, and aside from the rough transition between the menus and 3D engine, it plays just like it did in 2000. There are two missions suffering from a critical bug that may result in a no-win condition, but these have been around since 2000 and can be dealt with by using the level skip cheat. Overall, while not a must-buy for people not infatuated with Star Trek, Armada most definitely is one for those who are.

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Posted on: December 22, 2021

jhall5197

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Classic RTS

This game is as good as I remember, no problems running on my laptop. No adjustments needed. You can play Multiplayer over the Internet using Game Ranger, one user has instructions in the Forum for this game.

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Posted on: January 13, 2022

chimera2025

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Awesome Game!!! Good Release!!!

This was a game I looking for the day I registered on GOG. I was so disappointed that it wasnt there at the time. So glad it was added now. I downloaded and played it again immediately. this game held up over time. The campaign was great and I personally never had a crash, This game always did crash on me before. I was very happy with this release.

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Posted on: May 3, 2022

Bloodrunsclear

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The License Helps

It's a decent real time strategy game and a decent Star Trek story/sim but combined it's something really special. It's one thing to be commanding starships and building bases, but there's a special touch when you're dealing with The Borg or The Klingons or recreating famous battles from the Trek films like Insurrection. The graphics are crisp and the game runs very well even on a modern system. I had some graphical tearing in the cutscenes but that was hardly a deal breaker. There's no real tutorial here so you're assumed to have read the manual or played another RTS. On the plus side this means pretty much instant action. You're given an objective and the rest of your actions are up to you in order to achieve this goal. And there's a variety of goals. Sometimes you're base building and mining, sometimes using nebulas and black holes to escape superior forces, sometimes creating a flotilla of ships to hunt down invaders. It all sounds authentic, there's plenty of voice acting, and there's some nifty if superfluous visual touches like the game being in full 3D so you can zoom in on any combat or ship action to admire the models. It's got multiple campaigns with lots of missions and although clearly dated in some ways this is a Star Trek game through and through: shields, different stages of altertness (Green, Yellow and Red) and you repair vessels by replenishing your lost crew by beaming them aboard from a shipyard. If you're a fan it's a fine experience and if you aren't it's still a very solid ship combat RTS.

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Posted on: June 19, 2022

ThomCH

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English only?

Just noticed there is only an English language package. As I can speak it more or less good, it would be nice if you could give some other languages additionally as these versions exist actually

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