Without giving away spoilers the main portion of our tutorial ended with us personally taking command of the ship and sitting down in the Captain’s chair though where the tutorial officially ends is hard to say as it then transitions into the next scene where we’re directly controlling the ship in space. Battling through the ship was still fun, and our choice of class played into what missions we had to do, which was a nice addition. The “ground combat” is third person and consist of a point and click attack with a variety of moves you can perform on your hotkeys, but the movement just feels extremely clunky and at times hard to position your camera, or if you take cover it’s hard to tell why you can’t target and attack someone even though you have a clear line of sight to them and might be able to attack the person next to them. Out on our first mission it wasn’t long before we found ourselves the victims of a Klingon ambush, with the three playable factions being in a state of aggression in this alternate timeline our attackers boarded our ship and we were tasked with grabbing a phaser rifle and hunting them down! Running around the ship was fun, collecting crewmates who would arm themselves and follow us to repel the attackers, story wise and cinematically it was very fun however the combat itself was pretty awful. Through the early tutorial we were assigned to a ship and found ourselves in the position of First Officer, however, knowing that the game revolves around you Captaining your own ship it was interesting to see how the story would unfurl to put us in that position. The environments were captured perfectly, and whilst the older graphics might show in places, the detail that has been put into each area creates a very immersive experience that is further enhanced by voiced NPCs and snappy dialogue.
We were able to make a pretty hideous looking character with the options available (as we always do when we have the opportunity) and chose the Tactical Officer as our class, with Medical and Science being the other two options.Ĭharacter created we found ourselves on Earth at the Federation Academy, freshly graduated we were waiting to get our assignment, running around talking to other students on graduation day, it was quite a slow but very appealing start to the game that emulated the Star Trek shows and movies really well. Whilst the game does cover a lot of the races there’s also a generic “Alien” as part of the Federation which gives players a lot more freedom to create new humanoid species, or potentially recreate those seen in the show that the developers might not have officially put in. One of the things we always loved about Star Trek was the sheer variety of characters and species, and the developers have done a good job of recreating that providing dozens of cannon races divided into the three playable factions: Romulan, Klingon and Federation that made sense to the franchises lore.
STAR TREK ONLINE REVIEW 2018 FREE
On our free account our experience began with the character creation screen, a pretty impressive start with the huge number of available classic alien races that could be customized with a whole bunch of buttons and sliders. Obviously set in the Star Trek franchise, we were excited to get our hands on the game (even though it’s been around for seven years now) for our own play through as new players to see just what it was all about. During this past weekend we took out some hours to check out free to play sci-fi MMORPG Star Trek Online.
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