Encounters: Enterprise Era
I’ll be honest with you, the play control for this game isn’t the greatest. It’s not intuitive, difficult to control, and hard on the hands however I don’t think it fair to judge the game by this as I find it the case with almost all PS2 games. Frankly I’m not a fan of the duo joysticks.
The plot for the Enterprise Era missions doesn’t match the show when it really easily could have. The missions have several linear objectives which makes me wish each mission was a chapter with each goal a level to play rather than long multi-faceted missions. The thinly-veiled training mission for example is far too long with unreasonable expectations for completion.
The entire game is narrated by William Shatner and thus far he’s phoning it in. Even the music seems to be not quite there, although the title sequence and cut scenes are pretty good. At times I seriously wonder how rushed production of this game was; it was the last to be announced but the first to be released after all.
The graphics are good but not great and some distinction between warp drive and impulse would be nice as would an overall level map. More control over viewing angles would make game play much easier.
All that having been said these levels all have very fun components and it’s great seeing the NX-01 and Xindi ships in a game finally. I suspect I will become a big fan of the co-op mode once I get a chance to try it. Not enough games have co-op modes.
The last level in this era is the dessert, you’re pretty much free to let loose and kick some ass.
