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At the peak of Star Trek's movie popularity. It seems absolutely extraordinary now that the stars all showed up to record so much dialogue. Oh, and they got the entire franchise cast to do all the voice work. Not all to complete success, admittedly, but the ambition! And I don't mean that entirely patronisingly either - frankly Telltale should have been embarrassed to have fallen so far short so many decades later. But rather than offering up an also-ran, a Star Trek Quest, they decided to do something far, far more complex, working in not just the episodic format, not just all the different ways a story could unfold, but also space combat and bridge crew simulation. And in this era, that was a thriving territory, dominated by Sierra and LucasFilm Games. Interplay, they who had brought us Bard's Tale and Wasteland, and would go on to give us Stonekeep and Fallout, were turning their hand to the graphical point-and-click adventure. Waaaaay back, to a confusing mixture of the '60s and the '90s.
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Apparently everyone else had just teleported away ages back, but here I was completing an intricate series of puzzles those guide writers didn't know where even there.īut let us go back.
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In desperation I looked at walkthroughs and kept finding descriptions of how to complete the mission absolutely ages before any of the stuff I was doing on an abandoned starship. I think I was most struck by this while playing the seventh and final mission, and becoming completely stuck because of one of the game's many idiosyncrasies (I hadn't used 'look' on one flashing light across a bridge-wide array of flashing lights - this game has some issues). In a way that makes me gawp, because this is what games keep promising they're going to offer today, but never really do. But on another, it's a really astonishingly versatile game that allows you to play it in very different ways, with very different outcomes. Seven individual stories, that barely overlap, which tell original yet incredibly TOS-like tales of bridge-based banter and landing party derring-do. This is, on some level, seven brand new episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series.
Non-Sierra/LucasArts early '90s adventure. I mean, let's look at the ingredients: TV/Movie tie-in game. But sure - SURELY - it must be absolutely unplayable rubbish now, right? It is indeed a worrisome 27 years since this first Star Trek graphic adventure game came out in 1992.
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Please update your nomenclature from Star Trek: 25nd Anniversary to Star Trek: 52th Anniversary. Past Perfect is a retrospective column in which we look back into gaming history to see whether old favourites are still worth playing today. Maybe it was the writing, maybe the execution, maybe the graphics. Too bad that those game developers were never able to profit from that momentum and what the precise reason for it is, I can't answer. Not that the whole original vision by Gene Roddenberry was that perfect, certain comments can be made about that and I do believe that with his passing in 1991, TNG became much better then its first two seasons (The inner light, Sins of the fathers) and DS9 profited also from that momentum/somewhat change in direction (Waltz, Far beyond the stars) altough later in its run. Heck, DS9 even did something what was thought of unthinkable within the Trek universe and probably would've never happended if Gene was still around: war with the Dominion !!
For some reason, the look, feel and notion that is present within primarely TOS and TNG, is that what lacked the games. In general are Star Trek games often "just not" as in completely conveying the notion of what Star Trek stands for. Honestly, watch TNG's two-parter "Gambit" and then play Elite Force II (or the other way around). Elite Force II was a cheap and lazy sequel developed by people who didn't understand Star Trek and published by people who only saw dollar signs since the first one did so well. Elite Force was and still is probably the best Star Trek game ever released, mostly because it was a shooter first and a Star Trek game second.