These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. There are more than 60 characters in the game who combine for more than 6,000 sentences of dialogue. Some of the voice talents featured in the game include William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, and Walter Koenig. During gameplay users can access photon torpedoes, control phasers, shields, and communications. Enterprise and its crew through eight space and land missions. Worth grabbing from GoG, for sure.In Star Trek: 25th Anniversary players take on the role of Captain Kirk who must lead the U.S.S. A storyline structured into episodes, with perfect titles such as 'The Demon Planet.'
A UI and puzzle system which involves using crew members and their particular skills on objects or people. Little fake depth of field effects to make small spaces seem larger than they are. The idle animations - Bones irritatedly crossing his arms, Kirk checking his tricorder, Spock's quizzical glances. There are tons of delightful little touches which lift it, though. On the ground, there are the usual irritations of adventure games, object hunting and lateral thinking and inventory-filling and trial and error, which gets in the way of the flow of what is otherwise akin to a fairly solid animated episode of Star Trek. Hell, you even have to consult a star map in the manual (or a JPEG provided with the GOG version) to locate your next planet. And it feels like those abrupt, silly but wonderful TOS dogfights too. It's crude and it's a long way from the full simulation of the contemporary TIE Fighter, but it works. Most of the buttons on my keyboard have a specific function attached. I'm impressed by quite how much such an early, basic thing bit off too: you're straight into space combat when it begins, with shield and phaser controls, on-the-fly Scotty repairs, all sorts. The hum of the bridge, retro bleeps and pews, famous themes rendered in surprisingly appropriate MIDI. The audio of this game is beautiful, even if a couple of the actors clearly sound as though they're reading from a script (although what's new there?). Today, I played the later CD-ROM version, replete with the familiar tones of the original cast. When I played it back on my 486, I played the floppy disk version - which meant no voices. It's still rather lovely - and, if the Abramsverse leaves you pining for the more measured approach of the Roddenberry years, rest assured that this is very Star Trek indeed. This is my first time with Interplay's TOS-set point and click adventure game since the 90s. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time.
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