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Star Trek: Legacy - Review - Xbox 360

by Steven Williamson on 3 January 2007, 08:41

Tags: Xbox 360, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Xbox 360, Shoot 'em up

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For hardcore fans only...



The promise of visually stunning battles hasn’t quite materialised and the real-time engagements against the likes of the Romulans, Klingons and Borgs are slow paced and repetitive, despite plenty of warring vessels on screen at one time. Explosions and the debris created by them are occasionally impressive, but lack true visual impact and the beautiful space environments that we were promised are fairly dull and lifeless.

Despite an impressive musical score, the voice acting in Star Trek: Legacy is sluggish with William Shatner being the main culprit. Strangely, Captain Kirk sounds as though he really didn’t want being involved in the project at all and if we were in the studio when he recorded this bland performance we would have prodded him with a sharp stick to inject some life into him.

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Hardcore Star Trek fans will still get something from the Legacy experience, perhaps in the storyline or in the testing out of the wide variety of vessels, but we found the single player campaign to be repetitive and at times bordering on tedious. We still hold some hope that the multiplayer mode will be blast, but the awkward controls of vessels will be enough to put off the most patient of gamers.

Pros
Tons of playable vessels
Decent script


Cons
Drawn out missions
Poor handling of craft
Space battles are a bore


A fairly stale offering that doesn't do the Star Trek legacy justice.

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Posted by rogeraususa - Sat 27 Jan 2007 04:28
I couldn't help but respond to this review of Legacy. Personally, the game is pretty good - I like it; but there are flaws such as the terrible animation of the exploding Borg cube ships or the physics of planets and asteroids being completely ignored in the game. They don't detract too much from the game, but are things that should have been been rectified before the game shipped.

The reviewer states “The tactical element of the gameplay is also fairly well implemented and you’ll juggle tasks, between spells of fighting, such as repairing your ships or issuing cover and retreat commands, but despite the abundance of options available we couldn’t help thinking that the game would work so much better on a PC where there are more keys at your disposal; the Xbox 360 controller just doesn’t do the job well enough. ” Well, in fact, if you look around on the web, you'll see that the PC version of this game is a mess and was basically shipped unfinished. Even worse is that the controls on the PC version are absolutely terrible. Now, the 360 controller requires you to actually play a bit before you get proficient at controlling things, but the control scheme works, and once you've played a few hours, it's pretty easy to get used to. So I completely disagree with the review on the control scheme. I think being able to zoom out a bit from the ships would make things more manageable though.

If you're thinking of buying Legacy - go ahead. It's a good game and the multiplayer is pretty fun too. The feeling of managing a squadron of starfleet, Klingon, Romulan or Borg vessels is certainly captured well in this game. ^^
Posted by GeorgeTuk - Sat 27 Jan 2007 11:00
Oooh man it was so dull, I played for nearly 3 hours thinking, well its just the start so maybe it will get better, after all the first mission in a game is always pretty basic. But no it kept going and going.

Uninstalled and back to the shop.
Posted by Steven W - Sat 27 Jan 2007 16:13
rogeraususa
I couldn't help but respond to this review of Legacy. Personally, the game is pretty good - I like it; but there are flaws such as the terrible animation of the exploding Borg cube ships or the physics of planets and asteroids being completely ignored in the game. They don't detract too much from the game, but are things that should have been been rectified before the game shipped.

The reviewer states “The tactical element of the gameplay is also fairly well implemented and you’ll juggle tasks, between spells of fighting, such as repairing your ships or issuing cover and retreat commands, but despite the abundance of options available we couldn’t help thinking that the game would work so much better on a PC where there are more keys at your disposal; the Xbox 360 controller just doesn’t do the job well enough. ” Well, in fact, if you look around on the web, you'll see that the PC version of this game is a mess and was basically shipped unfinished. Even worse is that the controls on the PC version are absolutely terrible. Now, the 360 controller requires you to actually play a bit before you get proficient at controlling things, but the control scheme works, and once you've played a few hours, it's pretty easy to get used to. So I completely disagree with the review on the control scheme. I think being able to zoom out a bit from the ships would make things more manageable though.

If you're thinking of buying Legacy - go ahead. It's a good game and the multiplayer is pretty fun too. The feeling of managing a squadron of starfleet, Klingon, Romulan or Borg vessels is certainly captured well in this game. ^^

Cheers for the feedback.Blimey, I didn't know they had those problems with the PC version. I've also heard other people who like the control scheme and others who hate it. Personally I didn't like it, but I can understand how other people would. I have to say, I haven't played the multiplayer at all so it could well be worth it, like you say.
Posted by rogeraususa - Mon 29 Jan 2007 15:18
George,

Obviously if you uninstalled, you were playing the PC version. It's a shame that the PC ver was sooo bad.

On the 360, its not too bad. The multiplayer is quite fun and I've played that more than the missions. The last part of the archer missions was a tad long. I do wish you could save the game at any point in the process, but instead you get to start the entire mission over if you continue from a save. Given that some of these missions can take 30-60 minutes each, that's a bit frustrating if you saved right near the end of that level.

Yeah, the PC controls were bad. Really bad. So the 360 owner comes out ahead here. Its actually wierd to hear of a console version that outperforms it's PC's version of the controls - go figure! =P

- Roger