Platform:PlayStation2 Genre:Action Video Games ESRB:Everyone 10+ Media:Video Game Number Of Items:1 Batteries Included:No Operating System:PlayStation 2 Shipping Weight (lbs):0.4 Dimensions (in):7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 Legal Disclaimer:Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Product Description Star Trek: Encounters is a shoot 'em-up arcade style space combat game featuring ships characters and weapons from 40 years of Star Trek. Take command of your starship and blast through the universe defending your vessel and demolishing your opponents' in fast action battles. Take command of five generations of starships (from The Original Series The Next Generation Deep Space Nine Voyager and Enterprise) and fly Choose from Skirmish Mode Episode Mode or go head-to-head against a friend in Multiplayer Mode. Format: PS2 Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: RP UPC: 093155120501 Manufacturer No: 12050
This Game Blows!!!! You'll Have More Fun Watching The Series!January 25, 2010 Cosmos(St. Louis, MO) I recently bought this "overpriced" silly game at Gamestop (long story...tried to return this and they wouldn't let me return it at first, and had to threaten them to take it back!? Haha...it was more involved than that, but seriosly a very true story), and I will never shop at Gamestop again...because Amazon is awesome, I should have known better of course. Lesson well learned! So anyway, on with the review:
Amazon has a better selection, can read all reviews about the product first, then find out if the pruchase is worth buying, then judge for yourself, save time n money if you so choose to listen to the reviews. Also, Amazon has much better deals; prices on both new and used items. If i would have came here first i would have seen that this game had 3 stars, and rightfully so! I was surprised it even had that many!!?
So anyway, i bought this game, played it for a week, then returned it because I COULD NOT STAND how the funky controls worked and the way it manuevered the ship. Plus, it didn't seem very action packed, and your stuck in one place all the time, WTF is tha about!? I thought the game would would let you travel around space and time shooting up enemies, but no, not really!? It ONLY lets you shoot a phaser once in awhile in hoping to hit your opponent, plus the torpedos are impossible to hit any enemy ships anyway. It has some clutzy laser scan that you need to incorporate the enemy with in order to hit your target using your left thumb...i thougt this was too much!
Besides that silliness, another thing that is very irritating, is that your viewing angle for the ship is from some FAR-OFF ANGLE in space (maybe Jupitars moon perhaps?) and it is very very tiny n small! Who wants to view the ship this way as an observor on some far off planet!? There should be a choice for zoom, viewing angle, observation point, etc...maybe there is, but i didn't give it enough chance and have better games to play with my time.
Not only that, the game gets very boring really quickly! So for your entertainment doller please go spend it on a nice Star Trek movie or dvd, you will not regeret. But I forwarned you ahead of time, heed my warning & beware, keep the reciept if you do not listen to me just in case, I'm tellin' ya....or if you rent it by curiosity, might as well just flush your rental money down the toilet for this game...I think you would have better entertainment value using this disc for a beer coaster!
You've been forwarned!
Quick Play GameJanuary 18, 2010 J. Halpern(MN, USA) Star Trek Encounters isn't exactly a fantastic game, but it is a nice quick play game if you aren't a hardcore gamer. I bought this game for cheap for xmas as I still only have PS2 - I don't have much time to play a lot of games these days. It is easy to learn, and if you are a fan of the ships of star trek, it is fun as you get to play as a wide variety of non-Federation ships. Most importantly though you Do get to play as all of the Enterprises from each of the TV shows and the Enterprise E from STNG movies. The basic premise of the game is you take control of the ships and conduct various missions using the various abilities of your ship such as phasers, photons, tractor beam, mines, etc. The graphics are OK, not great, but hey it is PS2.
If you get a good price, it is a fun game that can probably be beat in two days.
boringMay 23, 2009 J. Johnson READ REVIEW BEFORE BUYING, THIS GAME IS SLOW, AND A LITTLE BORING, INTERESTING BECAUSE OF THE CONCEPT BEING STAR TREK BUT SLOW,,
Just.. DONT!March 27, 2009 Lynne Fretz 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love star trek, I grew up watching it.
But this game just SUCKED! The levels grind on you, and I was so bored at points that I fell asleep! The controls where hard to understand.
The ships where 'ok' but in an over-all it could have been so much better. The only good points in this game where you got phasers and torpedoes. which you can get in any start trek game really.
So my advice. RENT the thing first before you fork over some hard earned cash.
Maybe someone likes this game, but not meMarch 20, 2009 J. Cieslowski(Detroit, MI USA) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you could take all the excitment of controlling a powerful starship on the edge of human knowledge and put it into a video game... it would be the oposite of this.
I gave up on this game after the second level of "fly the ship to the destination points in time"...
LAME.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I did not enjoy this game.
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