I would love to rate this game better. The atmosphere is often solid, even with the dated tech, and the story lets you explore lots of things that Trek Fans will surely love to see. The elephant in the room is, that the longer the story goes, the less it becomes Trek and just more of a typicall Raven FPS. The rooms make less sense and are just more and more of an arena, the weapons are all different but the same, shot fast or slow, there is no real reason to change apart from the two main ammo types, all seem to handle the enemies the same more or less. And the enemies are all the same aswell, you have melee, melee and shooter, shooter, that is the arenal, in different variations of HP and size. Then there are the big bads, that are ramped up to be very strong and though, until mod down lots of them with your weakest weapon, the phaser. The ecounter devole, even more than before into offlimits spawn areas that vomit out lots and lots of enemies and the game waits for you to click them until you can progress. Sadly, the shooting is the weakest part of V:EF.
I played through this in one sitting, and the while the gameplay loop is simple, it does not overstay it's welcome. The premise could have been expanded upon, and I would recommend you only buy this while it is on sale, otherwise 15 bucks is a bit much for so little to show. Itself the game looks really nice, the story is quite good and the whole game flows with each other. For a short break this if a great game to play, though it is good it ends as quickly as it started, as towards the end it has no more cards to play.
