Posted on: January 12, 2025

Buckdawg

Games: 205 Reviews: 1

Finally playing this is 2025

Been on my radar for years, but finally got round to it in 2025! I was excited to hear you could walk around the Enterprise E, which is fun, for a few minutes, before you see how empty it is. Still, it helps set the scene, and the story isn't too bad. Gameplay wise, its clearly dated, and suffers from many pitfalls of the time... The levels are a little bland and empty, graphics & gameplay a little basic, and micromanaging your own save files due to some annoying checkpoint moments can grow tedious. But if you can get past the limitations, it's a fun enough ride, for any Trek fans of that era anyway, who will enjoy seeing some familiar faces pop up, albeit, far too few of them. A modern day remaster of this could really be special, wth full TNG crew and revamped set designs. Hard to criticise an aged game too much, but also, hard to recommend to anyone who isn't a fan of the show, as that's most of the fun here.

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Posted on: April 20, 2025

ZillAkuro1

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Games: 199 Reviews: 5

Set Phasers for Awsome Absurdity.

An interesting inclusion in the list of Star Trek video games. Elite Force 2 is both one of the best and one of the most off-key adaptions of a product I've ever seen. Where Star Trek (at least before they made the newer series) is about understanding and exploration, Elite Force is about violent subjugation and militaristic preventative measures against any and all potential threats. You play as 'Alex Monroe' the leader of Hazard Team, which is essentially the closes you'll find to the Space Marine concept in the idyllic Trek. Once on Voyager, your team has been disbanded since the ships homecoming, and all of it's members have been delegated to cushy positions far away from the dangers that they had become so accustomed to. This being an FPS, that means that none of them are happy and are in actuality chomping at the bit for more combat. Thankfully, one Jean-Luc Picard of the Enterprise has seemingly lost his gourd and has decided to reinstate a team with the express purpose of kicking ass and taking names. Which is what you and your team proceed to do with reckless abandon. Not to mention, somewhere in between all the shooting, you're expected to pick between being with a stern Starfleet officer lady or a lewdly dressed alien babe who looks like something out of Kirks time, (not that that's an issue, of course.) It's absurd and often times feels like the result of letting a bunch of thirteen-year-olds create a Star Trek story. Though, I'd rather this type of simple irreverence over the awful Grimdark feel of modern Trek like Discovery. All that being said, this game is great fun. The shooting and level design, while not to the level of something like Unreal 1 or Quake, is genuinely great. The weapons are all memorable in both design and their ability to fulfil a specific niche in the games combat. The difficulty felt much more balanced then the relatively easier first game, which is a plus in my book. The only issue I have with the actual game is the continued in

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Posted on: September 1, 2025

Phlegthon

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Games: 17 Reviews: 2

My memory is not reliable about this one

I remember playing both of the Elite Force games way way back. I must have beaten them, and probably beat this one twice to see both endings, but oddly I rememer almost nothing about the story and most of the levels. The fact is this game aged worse than the EF1. On paper it has more weapons, and better graphics, and a story where choices sort of kind of matter, but its worse in every way. The two things I hate the most about this game is how awkward it feels to move around, and the story. The story doesn't feel coherent, its just a list of things happening culminating in you fighting two villains who had barely any set up. The Enterprise was a really bad choice for a setting, too, because Patrick Stewart's presence just makes you wonder where the rest of the crew is. If it was like the first game where you barely ever got brought into meetings with the top brass, it might have worked, but PS is in almost every story scene on the Enterprise. I kind of wish it was just the Hazard Team and Tuvok on some new vessel with a new crew. Yeah, I just didn't like it that much this time through.

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Posted on: February 4, 2022

psych

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Games: 542 Reviews: 10

Bad Sequel

If you like the first game and that's why you want to get the sequel, don't and rather play through the first part again. The flow of the game is constantly interrupted by stupid tricorder puzzles. Also, the gunplay in general doesn't feel as good as it used to.

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Posted on: September 12, 2021

GrimCW

Games: 198 Reviews: 1

Solid but flawed

The game is a step up in every way tbh, but I still have a love/hate relationship with it. Graphically the game is a massive upgrade over the previous title, voices, sound, even story are pretty well done. Tho by comparison the story is a lot weaker, but what can be done with already explored territory right? It's still a good story for a trek game, and an FPS in general tbh. Gameplay even got some interesting tweaks and a couple new weapons with more alt firing options My biggest complaint has always been this game came at a time when enemies in games went from running, dodging, and ducking while shooting at you. Despite being rather dumb doing it all they were enemies that fought. They became in most games, hoards of mindless zombie like enemies that suicide rush you. And this game was no different. Most enemies are just weird bug things that run up to you wildly in numbers. Basically every game wanted its "Flood" after halo was a success. But none actually encapsulated what made the flood a good enemy. EF2 is no mold breaker for that. Overall its a great game for a series without many great games. And one that I honestly hope one day will be revisited. Be it just a simple remaster of the original games, or an all new title set within the newer series maybe. whatever. But it's all wishful thinking these days with movie/tv show tie in games always wanting to be canon to the source content because execs and such can't wrap their heads around the concept of EU's anymore.

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