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Post Date: 04:57 20-02-2010
Rating: 6
Author: gamefreak565
Comment: I"ve played the beta, and a week in to what is supposed to be the finished aspect of the game.
I"ll get straight to the reviewing, though.
Graphics 7/10
For a new MMO, I was expecting next generation graphics. What I found was a game that had around 2005-2006 graphics with a lack of shader use. However, some of the texturing is passable, and the character customization leaves nothing behind. For that, the game gets a 7/10.
Sound 6/10
Again, for a new game, especially one with such a title to live by as star trek, I was expecting good music, tracks, etc. I found those. However the voice acting in the game is terrible, and is certainly not where it is needed. The only remotely good voice acting is what comes out of Leonard Nemoy aka Spock.
Community 9/10
What to say. The community seemed very mature for me. Not a lot of those 1337 kids around in STO.
Interface 2/10
This is where the game hits the shitter. Horrible interface and control issues, from simple unresponsiveness to mission text coming up in the middle of a battle. You will go into a mission, and be attacked as soon as you arrive in some occasions, leaving the mission text to be scrolled through while your ship is getting vaporized. Annoying? To say the least.
Content 5/10
I have to pass this with a simple 50% as the content involved in STO is the bear minimum required for a mmorpg to function. You will have those classic, go and kill this many enemies and the scan this and come back sort of missions. Exploration is a joke, as there is simply nothing noteworthy to explore. To go along with this mentioning of exploration, it turns out you can"t even explore your own ship. With the exception of the bridge, which, ironically, doesn"t do a damn thing. Finally, the sides are very unbalanced. For example, there are two factions. Federation and Klingon. Federation is PvE and PvP, as it should be. However, Klingon is PvP only. This leaves masses of players on the Federation side and dwindling amounts on the Klingon side. This results in poor PvP, usually ending with the Federation annihilating the Klingons.
Gameplay 4/10
This area is another point in where the game cannot be passed. Let us start with the main focus of the game. Space.
Where to start? Well it"s a basic space game. You point your ship at your target and instead of actually aiming with a crosshair like you would in games such as X3: Terran Conflict, you press buttons to automatically shoot. Ship customization is small and few between, and there is not any sort of way to customize your weapons, nor craft any.
Where the game really falls apart is the ground aspect, though. The ground combat is horrendous. Your away missions consist of you and 3-4 other npcs, who are about as useful as a baby with a pistol on safety mode. They will die. A lot. The ground combat is also very bland, nothing exciting here. Missions? Well, simply this:
1) Beam down and scan then beam back up.
2) Beam down, kill 30 people, a ridiculously easy boss, then beam back up.
3) Beam down, find your mission is glitched, beam back up.
That"s all there is to say for ground combat.
As a final, on sentenced statement:
The game is passable, but widely unfinished, and does not deserve the attention of any players who do not want to play a mmorpg for over a week.
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