Command the bridge like never before.
You are the Captain
Command from the captain's chair, interacting with your 3-D crew and overseeing the bridge from a first-person perspective. Prepare to face the consequences of your decisions as you issue orders affecting the course of the game.
You Have th...
You are the Captain
Command from the captain's chair, interacting with your 3-D crew and overseeing the bridge from a first-person perspective. Prepare to face the consequences of your decisions as you issue orders affecting the course of the game.
You Have the Bridge
Take responsibility for the fate of your ship and crew, directing maneuvers, giving orders and managing individual stations. Your crew memebers call out pertinent information on the ship's status and wait for your response.
You are in Control
Take charge in a host of offensive and defensive scenarios. Master many complex maneuvers as you take the helm in combat, exploration, stealth and search and rescue missions.
Witness Real-Time Damage
Endure the threat of annihilation as objects collide and your ship sustains and inflicts real-time damage in the heat of battle.
Featuring D.C. Fontana
Author of 10 classic, original Star Trek® series episodes, D.C. Fontana contributed her sci-fi expertise as a script writer/editor and consultant. Fontana has also written 4 episodes of Star Trek®: The Next Generation™ and served as associate producer for that series.
This game is so nostalgic and so epic and intense It's such an evolving game with lots to control with the ship lots of mods out there This is a really thrilling game for those who want to be captain of their ship and have a real combat thrill such good fun
I witnessed the era in which some of the best Star Trek games were made and released. Some like the Secret of Vulcan Fury sadly never say the light of day, but Star Trek Bridge Commander did. Some version even offered voice comand, which was like "WOW" amazing at that time. Bridge Commander has a nice TNG feel kind of a story which is very attractive and a must for every Trekie to play through, however with the DS9 Dominion war, we all wanted to command our own Starfleet ship and enjoy the sounds of torpedoes echoing through the wastnes of space, the screeching screeams of a firing phasers volley, ripping through the shields and the feel of emerging victorious after a skirmish. All that is Bridge Commander, if you never played it before and you like Star Trek, go purchase a copy on GOG today and enjoy one of the best Star Trek.
This game is beloved by gaming Trek-fans, while not being all that great on multiple levels.
I loved it back in the day, because there was nothing quite like it. And frankly there still hasn't... Bridge Crew is the closest you could get, but that game is geared around fun with friends and coordination, rather than being an actual starship-simulation.
The story of the vanilla-game is essentially fan-fiction IMO, despite the box saying that some actual authors of the shows including D.C. Fontana were involved. But it's serviceable for the game itself, and it's far from bad.
The vanilla-balancing is basically in favor of the ships you command, most non-federation ships have poor weapon-arcs and very vulnerable hardpoints. Weapons feel rather weak as a whole, but that's so that you don't get one-shot by a warbird or something.
On highest difficulty you do in fact need to prioritize subsystems and also you often need to "draw aggro" from multiple hostiles at once in order to protect mission-critical objectives.
The elephant in the room are the technical issues, which have always been present. It's not just under modern OS, but the crashing and performance-issues were just as present on contemporary systems.
For now, it seems to run a little more stable in XP-compatibility-mode, but that might also turn out to be incorrect. With the game now being on gog, perhaps the modding-community will be revived to a point where a solution is engineered, but that remains to be seen.
This is a great game for Star Trek fans. One of the few games that got it "right" (not counting Star Trek Armada which is from an overhead perspective). TON'S of mod's available (which Lord_HoruS already mentioned) and another slew of YouTube play through videos if you're on the fence about it. Haven't played this since my Windows 7 laptop tanked (still have my original CD-ROM and BradyGames Strategy guide). If you love Star Trek you'll love this game.
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