I was never super into Trek, but I came across this game my sheer concidence back in the day as a child, not knowing at the time who developed it. I kept eying copies on ebay since then to try and run on my retro laptop but was holding out hope for a GOG release, and here it is. This is one of Raven Software's oft ignored titles, but that's a shame. If you love the Trek, it's got tons of locations and nails the look and feel of the show perfectly in that chunky Quake 3 engine goodness. Gameplay is great, run and gun but making sure to pepper in plenty of moments where you actually interact and play the role of an actual member of the crew outside of combat. You can take in the scenery of the Voyager ship inbetween combat missions too. If you're a casual fan, or hell, if you just want a solid sci fi shooter and don't know squat about the show, it's still fantastic. It's absolutely worth your time, and it holds up just as well as anything else Raven has ever done.
I was skeptical of 2077 from the start, but it takes a lot of effort to mess up this badly. The core gameplay is decent enough, shooting stuff, driving around, it feels fine, but nothing spectacular. The world design is great, but unfortunately it's all weighed down by so, so many issues. This is, mind you, after a bunch of patches. The graphics (high/ultra mix, fwiw) can be spot on, or extremely lacking depending on area, wall textures are often glitchy, clipping is common. It very much jumps from one extreme to the other. Animations are fine, but they sometimes get stuck leading to static NPC's who are actively talking, but not moving. I've had several instances of the in game text messages not displaying correctly, the HUD showing phone calls that are not active, spoken dialogue between characters overlapping and playing all at once, leading to conversations between 2 people I literally could not understand. In one quest, the quest giver phoned me saying I was abandoning the mission before I technically started it. The stealth sucks, enemies have that old lightswitch hivemind AI, where they are either entirely oblivious to your presence, or are all on high alert and know where you are immediately. Sometimes they can detect you through solid objects. The weapons dont really work well enough for stealth, since the minute you fire, even with a silencer, it usually leads to detection. A few hours in, the game decided that my upright position was now my crouch position, meaning I was always walking at crouching speed no matter if I was actually crouched. Even more fun, actually crouching made it even slower, so if I wanted to stay behind cover and move, it was at about 1/4th of my normal walking speed (which is already slow). I also couldn't sprint. Every time I try to play, something goes wrong. It's quite literally unplayable. I want to like this game, but it won't let me play it.
