![]() You can even take control of the weapon systems yourself. Draw out too much juice and your power transmission grid will overload, causing sparks and smoke to spew out of the consoles on the bridge.īridge Commander perfectly captures the chaos of a Star Trek space battle. If you want your phaser cannons to hit harder, reroute power from another system to your weapons. If you want your scanner to cover a wider area, boost power to the sensor array. Swing your head around to your chief engineer, Brex, and you can ask him to divert power to and from various systems. Turns out being a Starfleet captain is hard work.ĭuring battles, power management is everything. ![]() As the title suggests, it puts you in charge of your own ship, the USS Dauntless, and it doesn't take long for the shit to hit the fan. In fact, Bridge Commander was arguably the last great Star Trek game. Star Trek's popularity was beginning to fade a little, and its long run of spin-off video games was slowing down as a result. In TV land, Voyager had just ended and prequel series Enterprise was into its second season. Star Trek: Bridge Commander launched exclusively for the PC in February, 2002. Plenty of Trek games let you slip into the snug uniform of a Starfleet captain, but only one deeply simulates the moment-to-moment drama, thrills, and tension of being in command of a ship like the Enterprise. It's somewhat surprising, then, that there are so few games that recreate this experience. Sitting in the captain's chair, commanding a crew, exploring the depths of space, and making it so. But then, the journey's often better than the destination.There's one thing every Star Trek fan has dreamed of at least once in their lives, and that's taking the helm of a Federation starship. It's nice to win, at least in your lifetime, and Bridge Commander will be zapped from many a hard drive before it's clocked. This game seems to go on forever, and that is one of its few flaws. As second in command, you take over and have to win the backing of a hostile crew while working through missions to find out just who caused that star to explode. A cinematic opening reveals that the former captain has been killed by an exploding star while on a mission in the Vesuvi system. Fontana, one of the original screenplay writers and an associate producer of several shows. Bridge Commander has a cracking, multilayered plot written by D. While shoot-'em-ups can get away with non-existent plots, adventure simulations need a good storyline. You become captain of a federation starship, crewed by familiar faces from The Next Generation series. Bridge Commander is a cross between a simulation and an adventure. It is an excellent game, with photo-realistic graphics, strong gameplay and a brilliantly simple yet powerful interface. The quality has been mixed, but Star Trek Bridge Commander shines out like a supernova. ![]() So it's no coincidence that the two most popular science fiction movie/TV franchises, Star Wars and Star Trek, account for a major slice of space games. You're unlikely to travel to another galaxy or fall through a black hole in everyday life, but on the PC anything is possible. That's one of the reasons science fiction is the mainstay of so many games. By PETER ELEY (Herald rating: * * * * * ) A big attraction of computer games is that they put you in situations way beyond your normal or likely experience.
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