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Fairly complete review of STO!

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http://tobolds.blogspot.com/2010/01/star-trek-online-beta-review.html

"Star Trek Online is based on two different engines, one for the space part, in which you control a ship not unlike the USS Enterprise, and one for the ground part, in which you control your avatar, and quite often a crew of NPC as well. Now you might remember reviews of Pirates of the Burning Sea telling you how nice ship combat was in that game, and how badly done the avatar part was. Star Trek Online unfortunately has the same problem. The space part and ship combat are nicely done, and different from classical MMORPG combat. But the avatars aren't pretty to start with, the animations especially in combat are wooden, and ground combat isn't much fun. One gets a definitive impression as if Cryptic Studios started with the design of the space part, did the avatar part much later, and ran out of time before they could make that part as good as the space part."

"So while Star Trek Online is certainly playable, there is a chance that you might be disappointed by its linearity and shortcomings. I am posting this review at the time where the NDA drops and the open beta starts."

Comments

  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I read your signature first, and then decided that nothing else was worth reading. Goodbye.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    That's a Beta review, it holds no authority. You can't review something prior to actual release, and then you have to play through the entire game. Like Game Informer and everything, if they didn't play through the whole game because it's there job, there reviews would be biased and pointless, but they played through, and therefore their review holds some semblence of relativity to their complaints. Like, Space Combat suxx! Isn't a valid complaint without first going through it all, because at higher levels it does indeed take some higher cognitive skills to use, albeit not much more.
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