Star Trek: 25th Anniversary
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary. Developed and published by Interplay in 1993.
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Player's Review
"A SPACE FLIGHT ADVENTURE BASED ON THE #1 SELLING GAME IN THE WORLD.
Fasten your seatbelts, bring your seats back to an upright position, and stow away those other computer games. You're about to pilot a Federation Starship on a wild roller coaster ride through the Final Frontier.
STAR TREK: 25th Anniversary combines a realistic, 3D space Flight Simulator with an Incredible variety of role-playing adventures to create a gripping game of galactic exploration. You'll play James T. Kirk and experience the thrill of piloting the U.S.S. Enterprise using stunning new,
state-of-the-art, digitised model graphics. You'll control phasers, photon torpedoes, shields, communications and warp drives in 3D space action so real you'll be covering your eyes! So beam aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, and continue a quarter century of exploration and high adventure. "
Based on the PC Floppy version of the game released in 1992. Later the same year a CDROM version was released with more sounds and dialogue voiced by the original actors and an extended final episode and is the Ultimate version of the game.
A point and click adventure that takes place over seven episodes. Your aim is so get through each one with a 100% rating by scanning things, talking to folk and using items in the correct locations. Before going on a mission it is highly advised to research the mission based on provided mission orders before heading on out to achieve a perfect rating. Try not to antagonise folk or get into space battles whilst being diplomatic in conversations. Each episode has it's own look and feel with specific tasks to keep it varied although it is mainly a game of two halves. Taking place on the bridge of the Enterprise, you can command each station to complete tasks such as navigation, communications, weaponry, engineering and spocks computer. You may then be tasks to beam down on an away mission that is more like the usual point and click adventure. Note that you stumble upon traps or get caught in heated phasor fire resulting in the deaths of you or your officers but thankfully the captain has a save/load option. Ideally you get 100% accommodation up to the final episode otherwise your ship will be under powered making the final battle much much harder, I dare say impossible if you have a low rating. Note that this isn't a speedrun doing the minimum amount to get through, but shows a lot of dialogue options which can slow the pace a fair bit.
The Amiga game is for the Amiga AGA 1200/4000 only and required a HD install from eight floppies in order to play. This was a big ask in 1993 and no doubt limited the games reach but for those that could this was a good conversion of the pc game if a little slow but it's all there. Whilst requiring a HD at the time would not have been a popular option, maybe if it had been pushed by more publishers, the Amiga might have got conversion of more of the bigger games from the pc and been around a little longer but it wasn't to be. That and the lack of a HD Floppy drive didn't help.
Overall though it's a decent conversion that ca nfeel a bit slow at times. The final battle is it's weakest point being crazy difficult and may need a few retries for enemies to line up right. It took many tries but I managed to destroy the clone ship quickly so no reinforcements appear. If it didn't go down they would have appeared any moment and they are really difficult to take down often killing you so quick, you have no idea how you died especially if they are off screen.
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:30 Chapter 1: Demon World
00:32:10 Chapter 2: Hijacked
00:53:04 Chapter 3: Love’s Labor Jeopardized
01:27:06 Chapter 4: Another Fine Mess
02:05:33 Chapter 5: The Feathered Serpent
02:43:02 Chapter 6: The Old Devil Moon
03:07:56 Chapter 7: Vengeance
Fasten your seatbelts, bring your seats back to an upright position, and stow away those other computer games. You're about to pilot a Federation Starship on a wild roller coaster ride through the Final Frontier.
STAR TREK: 25th Anniversary combines a realistic, 3D space Flight Simulator with an Incredible variety of role-playing adventures to create a gripping game of galactic exploration. You'll play James T. Kirk and experience the thrill of piloting the U.S.S. Enterprise using stunning new,
state-of-the-art, digitised model graphics. You'll control phasers, photon torpedoes, shields, communications and warp drives in 3D space action so real you'll be covering your eyes! So beam aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, and continue a quarter century of exploration and high adventure. "
Based on the PC Floppy version of the game released in 1992. Later the same year a CDROM version was released with more sounds and dialogue voiced by the original actors and an extended final episode and is the Ultimate version of the game.
A point and click adventure that takes place over seven episodes. Your aim is so get through each one with a 100% rating by scanning things, talking to folk and using items in the correct locations. Before going on a mission it is highly advised to research the mission based on provided mission orders before heading on out to achieve a perfect rating. Try not to antagonise folk or get into space battles whilst being diplomatic in conversations. Each episode has it's own look and feel with specific tasks to keep it varied although it is mainly a game of two halves. Taking place on the bridge of the Enterprise, you can command each station to complete tasks such as navigation, communications, weaponry, engineering and spocks computer. You may then be tasks to beam down on an away mission that is more like the usual point and click adventure. Note that you stumble upon traps or get caught in heated phasor fire resulting in the deaths of you or your officers but thankfully the captain has a save/load option. Ideally you get 100% accommodation up to the final episode otherwise your ship will be under powered making the final battle much much harder, I dare say impossible if you have a low rating. Note that this isn't a speedrun doing the minimum amount to get through, but shows a lot of dialogue options which can slow the pace a fair bit.
The Amiga game is for the Amiga AGA 1200/4000 only and required a HD install from eight floppies in order to play. This was a big ask in 1993 and no doubt limited the games reach but for those that could this was a good conversion of the pc game if a little slow but it's all there. Whilst requiring a HD at the time would not have been a popular option, maybe if it had been pushed by more publishers, the Amiga might have got conversion of more of the bigger games from the pc and been around a little longer but it wasn't to be. That and the lack of a HD Floppy drive didn't help.
Overall though it's a decent conversion that ca nfeel a bit slow at times. The final battle is it's weakest point being crazy difficult and may need a few retries for enemies to line up right. It took many tries but I managed to destroy the clone ship quickly so no reinforcements appear. If it didn't go down they would have appeared any moment and they are really difficult to take down often killing you so quick, you have no idea how you died especially if they are off screen.
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:30 Chapter 1: Demon World
00:32:10 Chapter 2: Hijacked
00:53:04 Chapter 3: Love’s Labor Jeopardized
01:27:06 Chapter 4: Another Fine Mess
02:05:33 Chapter 5: The Feathered Serpent
02:43:02 Chapter 6: The Old Devil Moon
03:07:56 Chapter 7: Vengeance
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