The game is great -- a five-star experience -- if you can get it to run; it's a canonical entry in Star Trek gaming history. It allows you to command starships in tactical battles against other starships, with great command of systems, lots of customization options, a variety of ships, and a variety of environments (and, for their time, pretty good graphics). So why the 2-star review? This game wasn't ready for release on GOG, at least when running Win 8. Even if you can get it to run -- there have been mixed reports -- the video setup will not detect proper resolutions with a modern graphics card, which forces you into "software" mode, which only allows a maximum resolution of 800 x 600. (You lose the ability to select 1024 or 1280 resolutions.) That's a big difference as far as graphical fidelity. And it's something that should have been tested and fixed before release. Until that happens, this game gets docked several stars -- feels like I'm playing it with one eye closed right now. Summary: Great game (thanks for releasing it GOG -- I bought it day one); needs some attention as far as a resolution fix and crashing issues.
