Star Trek™: Voyager - Elite Force

Just as i remeber it, underated gem of a classic! if your into retro gaming and star trek, consider getting this and stepping back in to the golden age of gaming! Shame we do not have higher resoultion support, without modding. Otherwise this would be 5 stars.

I remember loving the Elite Force games back in the day, even though I barely watched Voyager (more of a TNG fan myself). Playing it again after all these years, the things I like most are the things I remember - and therefore must have been impressed by - back then. It's fun to explore the Voyager - even in a limited capacity - and see what for example the actual layout of Sickbay is meant to be. It's also cool the way the game adapts concepts from the show to the shooter format - so your huge collection of guns and equipment is stored in a portable transporter buffer device. But the game is generally not great. Its incredibly easy, and for the most part just involves following a linear path through an alien vessel blasting enemies that teleport in, with almost no puzzles, exploration or decision making on the way. It's shockingly simple a shooter, especially given its based on a franchise where thinking not violence solves the problem at hand. That said, I can't recall what the standards of the time were. If I'm being fair, it does have a stealth mission (not great, but not frustrating as you might imagine, and you have a lean ability). The only thing I straight up don't like about it is with dialogue. Even cranked up to max volume, it can be hard to hear, and most dialogue is not subtitled for whatever reason. If I optimize the various volume sliders to be able to hear dialogue, this leaves the issue of the pre-rendered cutscenes being blaringly loud by comparison, and pressing the volume control buttons on my keyboard count as a keypress in the game's mind, so it will skip them! I haven't beaten the game yet, will update this review once I have if there's anything to add. I wish they revisited this concept later with a more rogelike game design, like Void B*stards. Honestly, that would be a good format for a Voyager shooter.

i love this game and its dark theam i wish the 2nd game was more like this

Game is good but i keep getting kick out to the main menu screen, i really want to finish this game.....

Played this as a kid so correct for nostalgia fanservice: 10/10. If you loved Voyager, you need to play this. It is everything great and goofy about the show. Lots of little easter eggs. Plus the expansion pack lets you play around on the ship gameplay: campaign 7/10; arena 10/10 -Campaign is just a long Voyager episode. Borrows a lot from Half Life. The combat is hilarious and unfair. I recommend the highest difficulty. You go to a small room and 40 Borg spawn all around you. It's also funny to see how much the Mass Effect series stole from here. -Also has an arena mode as a separate executable. It's just Quake 3 with guns from the campaign and player skins from the TV series. I actually think it's better than Quake 3. The weapons are actually better.