So yet again, you have to defeat the Borg from assimilating everyone. So you collect resources and build ships as you make your way through the nicely boxed-up campaigns. So it’s a real-time strategy set in the Next Gen universe and played over a flat map pretending to be space. It’s the gaming version of Spot The Difference. And that is exactly what you are expected to do.
Not that I didn’t find Armada /vaguely enjoyable, it’s just that I wouldn’t want to play it again. The original may have gone deservedly unnoticed over here, but in the US it was a big enough hit to ensure a cheap and quick remake was promptly knocked off the Activision assembly line. For now, though, we live in the age of Rush Hour2, Hear’Say and Armada II. One day the games industry will be ruled by visionaries willing to throw big bucks at original ideas and create the same sort of atmosphere that Hollywood had in the 70s, when it encouraged the likes of Scorsese and Coppola to make their masterpieces. However, those who jumped in with this second game will probably get frustrated very quickly. If you have played the first game, you will be fine. The problem is the game really does throw you in at the deep end without much explanation for what you have to do or how you have to do it. The story mode is broken up into missions and these can take a couple of hours to beat each! Each one has its own objectives, but they all use the same RTS style gameplay. The story could be told a bit better, but for the most part, the premise alone here was more than enough to get me invested saving the galaxy. Captain Picard decides to just ignore his orders and go on the attack to try and stop the Borg menace once and for all.Īs a Star Trek fan and as a Star Trek fan who loves the Borg, I thought this was pretty cool. It takes place shortly after the events of the first game and this time The Borg has a superweapon and they are able to assimilate a whole world in no time at all. Not as quickly as Bethesda's Star Trek Legacy, but it's not a long-terms obsessive play type of game IMO.The story of Star Trek Armada 2 is one that I thought was pretty damn cool. I probably ought to try and find copies of the armada games.Īrmada's level of simplicity is refreshing at times, but even as a Trek fan, I have to agree with many reviewers that it gets boring very quickly. Personally one of the aspects I always liked about Sins was that it was simple enough compared to Stellaris or something. Didn't see your reply until after I had typed up the second one. Yeah I deleted my first post cause I wasn't happy with it. Originally posted by Salamand3r-:Not really, the Armada games are very simple even for the core RTS genre - they make classic Warcraft look like a deep strategic experience for the most part. An excellent game, but not a good comparison with non-hybrid of either genre since it eschews a lot of what the dedicated fans of each really hold as critical to those types of games. Not really, the Armada games are very simple even for the core RTS genre - they make classic Warcraft look like a deep strategic experience for the most part.Īs I said, Sins is a hybrid-genre game, with about equal emphasis on RTS and 4X elements. Hence the best Star Trek RTS being based off of the game that made me make a Steam account, and not the much newer Stellaris. Given what little internet research I've been able to find about the Armada games, it seems like they took along the same sort of approach as SOASE. SOASE drops most of the economic aspects of RTS games in favor of fleet management. Not too fond of Stellaris since it seems to like a lot of micromanagement.
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Gonna guess that you don't have Stellaris nor played or seen the Mod for it called Star Trek New Horizons ?
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