The story and writing was what made Star Con 2 remarkable. Here, they focused on fancy alien puppets that the technology of the time couldn't handle, and phoned in the plot, leaving most of the trailing plot ends of Star Con 2 dangling in favour of an already tired "OMG evil robots want to annihilate everybody". To be fair, they didn't completely destroy the game, they just failed to add anything new, and lost a lot of the original creative spark. Combat is fine, although the snazzy new camera angles are unusable. Exploration is fine. Colony development is ho-hum. Diplomacy is okay, with occasional good lines ("Glorified accountlings"), but the puppets actually look worse than the original cartoons (they were supposed to be animated, but they realized half-way through development that the computers of the era couldn't handle it - a general theme of this production), and most of the writing is dull. Still an acceptable game, but given what they had to work with, an inexcusable waste of opportunity.
