Star Trek™: Voyager - Elite Force

I used to own this game and had so much enjoyment with it in my younger days. Despite the graphics, which i gladly ignore and admire at the same time, in a retro perspective, i found this game a warm bath in nostalgia. Both my FPS, Nostalgia and Trek appetite has been stilled in a good way.

I remember playing this in 3D back in the day. Oh the headaches!

This game is... *playable*. However, the dialogue volume slider doesn't work. The in-game volume is so quiet, I can't hear what anybody is saying, even when lowering the sfx and music volume almost to zero. For a port on GOG, this is unacceptable. I'll just go back to emulating the PS2 port where people actually give a crap about user experience.

If you're looking for an FPS experience that is both strong as a shooter and also lovingly recreates the world of Voyager, look no further! Using the Unreal Engine as was at the time, Elite Force was a breath of fresh air after some of the slightly less strong shooters that had come out such as Klingon Honour Guard. The phasers you use feel good to handle, the movement is slick and the team dynamics seem to work well for a game of its time. The story is also well done, and sits well in a Star Trek mould of storytelling. It is not perfect however. The main thing from memory is that the voice acting outside of the bits done by the actual series actors are a bit weak. This was commonplace across most games outside of Lucasarts style adventures of the time, however it does occasionally break the immersion in the game, however these moments are usually brief. The stealth parts of the game also occasionally feel a bit shonky, but this was a time where stealth was being added to every game as following the success of Metal Gear Solid and Thief and wasn't necessarily as well developed as these games were. All this is forgivable however when the overall gameplay, characters and worldbuilding are generally strong.

So stoked this is finally available. Btw, if you're playing the game and at some point is glitches and won't let you save anymore, knock the resolution down. I was an hour into the game when everytime I'd go to save it, it would kick me to the main menu. Once I dropped the rez down to 1600 X 1200 it started working again.