Star Trek™: Voyager - Elite Force

This is a single player only review. I played on Hard straight away, first time through. The game itself is entertaining. The story is cool, and feels like a multi part episode of Voyager. The controls handle well, and besides a run toggle option, it pretty much has all the modern FPS controls intact, which wasn't a certainty at the time. As an actual shooter, though... it's incredibly tame. Enemy AI is mostly "rush the character" or "stand back and shoot" with different skins and HP, so you pretty much stand around with whatever the most powerful weapon you've got on hand and shoot it. Ammo is plentiful enough you don't need your phaser besides shooting environmental features, though it can get tight when the game has a mob spawn. Explosions don't do much splash damage so the personal Photon launcher is single target. Partner AI ain't much better. They shoot less, but they do shoot. They also get in your way plenty, take too much time to load onto elevators. Occasionally a bug happens that requires reloads, like a character getting shot that is supposed to trigger a cutscene but doesn't. There's lot of intuiting where to go. It's not too bad but there's a time component to some of these things that isn't listed that can get annoying; you don't know whether you should be doing something or if the game needs to decide to move forward. This is especially true during the "go do X social thing on Voyager" objectives. Anyway, worth a play for a Trek fan. That's who it was made for. People looking for a challenging FPS with great level design and clever enemy "combat chess" aren't gonna find it here.

I'll keep this brief: As someone who has struggled to get this running on a modern PC I about cried when I saw GoG list it. Never again do I have to listen to 'WELCOME TO VOYAGER'S LCARS MENU SYSTEM' on loop as I troubleshoot. Never again do I have to use level select codes to bypass crashing to the desktop. 'WELCOME TO VOYAGER'S LCARS MENU SYSTEM'. Never again do I have to suffer with the abysmal lag of the PS2 port 'WELCOME TO VOYAGERS LCARS MENU SYSTEM'. FREEEEEEEDOM!

So as a heads up, i'm writing this having only had the CD version (so far) Elite Force is such a solid title, I really enjoyed the story, found it to be a nice unique story and really fits well in the Star Trek setting. Well rendered cutscenes and dialog from the original cast and crew really get the immersion going. Between missions you get to stroll around Voyager a little and explore places you've seen on the shows. The places you get taken to are quite diverse with a mix of old and new bits from the established lore. The multiplayer component is also excellent (it was also made available standalone free as holomatch). Highly moddable and lots of console commands worth digging into. Especially if you want to add in lots of bots bot_minplayers or play some of the other gamemodes which for some reason are not readily available like Assimilation mode. If you enjoy shooters it's worth picking up, if you enjoy trek it's worth picking up, enjoy both and it's a must have. If you want a little plot hook for your curiosity: (Spoiler of initial story premise this point on) Given the dangerous Voyager faces being so far from home. Tuvok aims to create the Hazard Team to undertake dangerous missions. This newly formed unit couldn't come at a better time as Voyager encounters a probe that disables and teleports them to a Starship graveyard.

Just one of the best star trek games, a cult first person shooter and this version run perfectly on windows 10, that's all...

Im really happy the Elite force series made its way 2 gog! This game has raven software written all over it, holds up today. This is when raven software made great games together with id tech. Cant remember how many times have replayed this gem of a fps, but its worth all your time if you love how classic fps games used to be. Cant lie, would love a remaster from nightdive studios.