Star Trek games you recommend

[someone else]

Are there any Star Trek ship combat games worth recommending? I'm no Trekkie but I like capital ship combat. Tactical with strategic gameplay will be nice, if they don't mean the same thing to you.

 

[RK47]

bridge commander 1

External view

Bridge View

You can rotate your view around to access the ship menus by speaking to individual crew member. You may also issue orders for the AI to handle the ship to ship combat, but they're generally incompetent at higher difficulty and you have to take control of the ship by yourself.

 

[Silellak]

Bridge Commander or maybe the Starfleet Command games.

 

[mondblut]

Birth of the federation is an ok MOO-wannabe.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

For ship combat:

Armada
Armada 2
Bridge Commander

For FPS combat:

Elite Force
Elite Force 2

 

[Deleted Member 10432]

The Starfleet Command games. Srsly.

 

[Arem]

Klingon Academy.

 

[NiM82]

Fleet Ops, it's a hefty total conversion/re tooling of Armada II, using new code, enhanced engine, different/better gameplay. For all intents and purposes it's a new game. Hugely better than the vanilla game, which was pretty crappy (Armada 1 was ok though).

You can play as Fed/Rom/Borg/Klingon/Dominion, standard RTS affair with some nice features like gas clouds you can hide ships in, use to restore shields etc. Makes a nice time waster for skirmishes vs the AI and is quite good MP.

Otherwise Starfleet Command II.

 

[Kortalh]

I remember having a fun time as the Borg in the Armada games. I'd play defensively and build up a few of those mega-cubes (if you build 8 regular cubes, you can combine them) and just go around assimilating everyone.

I don't think I ever played it the way it was meant to be played though. I mostly just screwed around with it.

It always annoyed me how there were just planets floating around in space, never near a sun.

 

[humble pie]

I enjoy space empires 4 w/ a star trek mod.

 

[Jasede]

Most of the adventures.

The old Enterprise crew one, with Kirk and McCoy, and the one with Picard, called, I think, Judgment Day. Or the other way around. Point and click. Real nifty.

 

[Jasede]

I just noticed you asked for combat/strategy games. Sorry bro.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

EGA Trek.

To this day, I have not seen nor played a Star Trek game that captured the look and feel of the original series better than this one.

 

[Atomic]

Most of the adventures.

The old Enterprise crew one, with Kirk and McCoy, and the one with Picard, called, I think, Judgment Day. Or the other way around. Point and click. Real nifty.

I think you are talking about Judgement Rites which was with the old crew.
The adventure game with the new generation crew is called A Final Unity.

 

[Panthera]

I highly recommend A Final Unity as a really solid adventure game with some pretty hefty choices and well-recorded and written dialog.

 

[L'ennui]

Starfleet command II: Orion pirates with this mod:

http://www.dynaverse.net/downloads.php? ... P#download

is the best you can currently get as far as star trek ship to ship combat gaming goes.

Either that or Netrek, if you like fast-paced temwork games (think CTF unreal tournament but in space with ships and there are lots of flags/enemy planets)

The rest is shit, shit, shit.

Bridge Commander, for ship to ship combat, is total utter fucking shit. It is pretty, though.

Armada is an RTS, so you essentially build tank rushes except the tanks are starships. Still, it's the same formula with a few small differences. For ship to ship combat: SHIT.

The other games mentionned are adventure games, some of which are decent, a few of which are pretty good, but none of which relate to your inquiry.

So yeah, SFC 2: OP with that mod is your best bet. Very good game (I should do an LP of it) and whatever you do, don't even think of playing SFC 3. Dumbed down. Castrated. Shit.

EDIT: Yes, EGA Trek was pretty cool.

2nd EDIT FFS: Try http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/909/B ... ation.html

 

[Jeff Graw]

BoTF is worth a shot.

 

[Panthera]

2nd EDIT FFS: Try http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/909/B ... ation.html

Yes yes a thousand times yes.

 

[Trebuchet3025]

Perhaps this is a bit too old school, but have you considered Netrek?
http://netrek.org/
http://www.playnetrek.org/

 

[someone else]

No love for Star Trek Legacy? I searched around in shops and it is the only strategic Star Trek game left. Been awhile since I 'sampled' a game off the net...

 

[Jeff Graw]

No love for Star Trek Legacy.

 

[Gold]

The Starfleet Commands (1, 2, 2:OPs)