Highlights of the review
“That's only one of the many, many missed opportunities on display in Star Trek: Legacy, a tragically mediocre space combat game. It didn't have to be that way. This game could have been the be all and end all for Trek fans and action gamers alike instead of the sad capstone to a long history of crappy licensed video games.”
“When something in Legacy is destroyed, it cracks up into huge polygonal objects that twist around and pass through one another. The game also tends to duplicate pieces of what's being destroyed multiple times during an explosion.”
“The bad news is that the storyline can be a bit hard to follow. Missions that were cut prior to release ended up bowdlerizing the story, resulting in strange jumps in the narrative, plot twists that come out of nowhere, a strange lack of motivation for some of the actions that take place and a general unsatisfactory feeling to the single-player campaign.”
“Fortunately, the main menu has an "Extras" button that contains some rough animatics for what were obviously planned as cutscenes. These should help gamers piece the story together, though it's pathetic that Mad Dog had to resort to putting in half-finished work just to hold the story together. All five captains do a decent job reading their lines, although some are obviously more enthusiastic than others (Scott Bakula sounds bitter, probably over Enterprise getting cut short).”
“To start with, the controls are simply atrocious.”
“When the game does try to present more elaborate scenarios, they're so badly designed and unbalanced that they're just frustrating rather than fun.”
“Players had better get used to frustration since there's no in-mission save or checkpoints.”
“In the end, Star Trek: Legacy reeks of missed opportunities and features cut to make a ship date. In any ordinary game, that would be sad enough. For this to be done to Star Trek: Legacy is almost criminal. This was supposed to be the 40th Anniversary game, the one that fans had been waiting for through all the years of dreck like Star Trek: Shattered Universe. Well, keep those hailing frequencies open. That great Trek game has got to be out there, and Star Trek: Legacy surely isn't it.”
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