Star Trek™: 25th Anniversary

This game would probably be fun, except the combat system is awful. The game opens with an attacking ship which you continue to attempt to fire on while it refuses to be defeated. Much of the time it's difficult to even find the attacking ship as it seems to dart around almost randomly, while your controls are coarse and clumsy. There were instances where the ship should have been right in front of me but was no where to be seen or would be repeatedly firing on you when you couldn't see it until it takes you out. There's an unofficial patch to avoid the battles, but I wasn't able to get the one I could find to work properly with the game. (Causes it to stop loading saves, no voice audio which considering this is narrated by the original crew is unacceptable, and the whole game crashes during the start of the first planet mission.<- This is with the patch. If you can bring yourself to slog through the terrible combat system without a patch it might be playable but I quit.) Recommend skipping this one and going straight onto Star Trek Judgement Rites which is a lot more fun.

First of all, I love all incarnations of Star Trek. The audio is clear, nice voice acting and pixel presentation... BUT as someone who didn't play this game years ago when it was first released, I had no idea where to go initially. So basically use a walkthrough on the internet AND definitely use the STAR MAP. Also, the combat system was kind of disorienting.

Really, really great!

Here's the problem I've had with virtually every Star Trek game out there: the 1986 EA/Binary Systems game Starflight is effectively the best Star Trek game ever made that was not actually Star Trek. Whereas 25th anniversary was kind of a prefab Sierra-inspired adventure with a limited number of pre-rendered planets to explore, Starflight may have been the first "sandbox" with an entire galaxy to explore with hundreds if not thousands of procedurally generated worlds to freely explore. And yet layered into the open-universe was a story worthy of the best Star Trek; an impending, mysterious Armageddon, ruins scattered around the universe where you could find clues, Class M planets to discover, aliens you had to learn how to communicate with (both to decode their language AND learn the best way to respond to them culturally once you could communicate). ' ST:25 by comparison is so limited in scope, so clunky in its implementation, so stunted by its adherence to ST tropes, that it really feels more like King's Quest than Star Trek. If you haven't, go out and buy Starflight. When you create your crew, name your Captain Kirk, make the Science Officer Spock, make your Engineer Scotty, make Communications Uhura, and name your medical officer Bones. You'll effectively be playing the best Star Trek game never made.

Its way too old and way too clunky. Navigation is a matter of guess work as there doesn't seem to be a key to the navigation map ingame, you have to refer to the pdf manual and reference it through the game. Which is a tad tedious. The combat is way too fast on modern systems, so can be a real pain. There is a mod to the games exe. file to remove the need for combat. I wish I had played this back in the day on a current system. It looks like it would have been a good game. It appears to be fully voice acted by the original cast. Its also TOS trek and I always had a soft spot for that. shame really