Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force

[Sean Aaron]

I am about 3/4 through the campaign now I think, and VERY impressed. It was a real thrill to walk on the hull of the Enterprise. The plot is great, the graphics are great, it's a real treat- like a new episode of next gen! I love it.

Yeah, it's nice and expansive, the new races are nicely developed. The dialogue in the end movies is REALLY clunky however, but I still enjoyed it.

Makes me wish for a game with a 3D engine that's not centred around shooting everything in sight, but more of an adventure game that plays out like a movie. Elite Force 2 is closer than Elite Force 1 with the tricorder stuff, but it's still an FPS.

I've been playing Marvel Ultimate Alliance on the Wii recently and getting off on the Silver Age geekfest that it is and building a dream team, but wouldn't that be a cool mechanic for a Star Trek game? Not a beat-em-up, but some kind of overarching time-travel/dimension-spanning storyline where you could put your own crew together to face whatever threat to the universe?

 

[Delsaber]

Hmm, I'm not a terribly big fan of the Elder Scrolls games, but maybe something along those lines would fit the Trek universe fairly well.

 

[Mr. B]

I still play EF frequently (same name as here), mostly specialties CTF as sniper.

 

[Destructor]

Makes me wish for a game with a 3D engine that's not centred around shooting everything in sight, but more of an adventure game that plays out like a movie. Elite Force 2 is closer than Elite Force 1 with the tricorder stuff, but it's still an FPS.

I couldn't agree more.

I still play EF frequently (same name as here), mostly specialties CTF as sniper.

Online? Is there still an online community playing this game? That's very interesting.

 

[captcalhoun]

yes, there is.

hell, some folks are still playing Quake 2 online - maybe even Q1!

 

[Tai]

I loved the storyline and gameplay of both Elite Force games. I felt like Elite Force II was a very worthy sequel, and I still remember laughing at the "I would love to visit the land of Vermont!" line.

A sequel is probably totally impossible--all the same, I should dust it off and give both games another go.

 

[Destructor]

I loved the storyline and gameplay of both Elite Force games. I felt like Elite Force II was a very worthy sequel, and I still remember laughing at the "I would love to visit the land of Vermont!" line.

A sequel is probably totally impossible--all the same, I should dust it off and give both games another go.

I just clocked EF2- fantastic game. Far superior to Q3.

 

[Necros]

I love both games too. But I still haven't seen the Expansion Pack for EF1, got to get that soon.

Sequel(s)? Sure, bring them! Though there's the problem of who would do it. Relic is basically gone (they are doing casual stuff...), Raven is knee deep in the new Wolfenstein -though maybe they could afford to work on two games at the same time-, I don't want Epic or Digital Extremes to develop a Trek game, they are noot good enough -just keep working on UE3 and 4. Now, who else? Well, not a lot of other devs but maybe Gearbox would be a good choice, they are among the best now, I think. In a couple of months they'll finish Hell's Highway and after that they should be avalaible to create a grate Trek game. I think they are doing a very good job with the Aliens FPS and they know how to make FPSs with good storylines too, so they would be a perfect choice.
Anybody else? I don't know who I'd trust with EF3 but there are some other talented devs. But the most important thing should be (if it did happen) the time factor, the game can not be rushed, that will result in a half assed game (see Legacy ), and of course the publisher would have to keep a close eye on the project.
All right, time to wake up now...

 

[Jax]

I loved playing it years ago though does it work on XP ?

 

[Saturn0660]

i think i only cheated once and that was too get past a bit where you have to jump in space from one walkway to another.

i cheated more on RTCW, but i actually completed it without cheating eventually...

I hear ya... I seem to be the only person I know/knew who had to cheat to beat the last guy on EF1... I can not and WILL not believe that dude can be beat any other way besides cheating.. I even let more then one person use this game just to see if it was me..... They had problems too...

 

[Necros]

I loved playing it years ago though does it work on XP ?

They work on XP, I've played through EF2 again a few months ago and EF1 sometime before that, both with XP SP2. Games with the Quake 3 engine (or id Tech 3, whatever...) work on XP.

 

[ATimson]

But I still haven't seen the Expansion Pack for EF1, got to get that soon.

The expansion was rather meh; its single-player mode was all holodeck scenarios, and a scant number of them at that.

 

[ATimson]

I loved playing it years ago though does it work on XP ?

Quite well.

 

[Akiraprise]

i think i only cheated once and that was too get past a bit where you have to jump in space from one walkway to another.

i cheated more on RTCW, but i actually completed it without cheating eventually...

I hear ya... I seem to be the only person I know/knew who had to cheat to beat the last guy on EF1... I can not and WILL not believe that dude can be beat any other way besides cheating.. I even let more then one person use this game just to see if it was me..... They had problems too...

It's possible.
I beat him. I refuse to use cheats on any game until I've beaten it fairly the first time.

 

[CaptainStoner]

One thing I like about EF2 - I'm around halfway through now - is that it's not too easy.
What an awesome game. I loved the time-line jump when you suddenly find yourself with the Klingon, shooting Romulans, only to find it's a holodeck sim. Great stuff.

 

[Sean Aaron]

It's possible.
I beat him. I refuse to use cheats on any game until I've beaten it fairly the first time.

totally, I've beat the boss on EF1 even on the hardest difficulty (although it takes forever and it was several attempts) -- my biggest complaint about that game. I really thought the whole idea of a Star Trek "boss" was lame in both games, but at least EF2 didn't make it some ludicrous "jump around with a photon gun" mini-game.

 

[Destructor]

Fortunately I lucked out on the final boss in EF1- the first time I encountered him he blasted me with some weapon which sent me flying into the air- only to land on his back between two ridges. I could stand there safely all day long- I didn't even have to shoot him, he kept sending blasts of energy into himself trying to dislodge me. In the end, he killed himself. Total fluke at the time but the easiest thing in the world if you can land right.

As for the final boss on EF2- WTF? Honestly, after the tenth deathage I was just done with it. Out with the cheats, onward with the making-out-with-hot-alien-babes.

 

[captcalhoun]

circle-strafe is the key. as with beating Heinrich I on RTCW...

 

[WalkinMan]

Fortunately I lucked out on the final boss in EF1- the first time I encountered him he blasted me with some weapon which sent me flying into the air- only to land on his back between two ridges. I could stand there safely all day long- I didn't even have to shoot him, he kept sending blasts of energy into himself trying to dislodge me. In the end, he killed himself. Total fluke at the time but the easiest thing in the world if you can land right.

As for the final boss on EF2- WTF? Honestly, after the tenth deathage I was just done with it. Out with the cheats, onward with the making-out-with-hot-alien-babes.

That was a lucky landing, I discovered the "jump on boss' back" tactic after a number of failed attempts, and even then sometimes get injured/dislodged. But indeed that is a way to beat the boss, at the very least you get out of the way of most of the spawning baddies.

As for EF2, re the alien babes, I was more in favor of Munro-Telsia...

 

[Sean Aaron]

As for the final boss on EF2- WTF? Honestly, after the tenth deathage I was just done with it. Out with the cheats, onward with the making-out-with-hot-alien-babes.

I found that boss much easier -- at least there was a health bar and you could dodge his attacks; it was the other exo-morphs that were the giant pain in the backside, but a little judicious moving about sorted that. The Romulan XRAD or the tachyon gatling gun will make short work of him.