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Modeled after the choose-your-own-adventure theme, Star Trek: Borg gives you the chance to revisit Wolf 359 and stop the murder of your father and the destruction of the USS Righteous. Throughout the interactive video, Q leads you through the action and helps you meddle with fate--all the while dispensing not-so-helpful and definitely cynical advice. At the climax of each scene, Q gives you two choices in a usually do-or-die situation. The decisions you make change the course of this interactive movie and the future of Federation history.
The graphics of Star Trek: Borg are exceptional, although jerky if the system is not configured for the recommended requirements. The movie follows the Star Trek themes of saving humanity, facing your fears, and enforcing interplanetary morality. This interactive package focuses more on the continuous video than on game play and interaction, appealing to those willing to witness and not experience Wolf 359. --Madeleine Miller
| PLATFORM: | Macintosh, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me |
| AGE GROUP: | 5 years and up |
| CATEGORY: | Software |
| MANUFACTURER: | Pearson Software |
| ESRB RATING: | Everyone |
| TYPE: | Science Fiction (SciFi, Sci-Fi), startrek, Computer Games, Action, Adventure |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| ACCESSORIES: | |
| UPC: | 076714317789 |
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Customer Reviews of Star Trek Classics: Borg
Star Trek: The Interactive Movie Pros:
1. This game is exactly like being in the middle of a Star Trek episode. You play a Star Fleet Cadet who's father was killed during the Borg encounter at Wolf 359. You are offered the chance to go back in time shortly before the battle to see if you can change history. As soon as you accept the challenge, you are transported to the bridge of a starship as the crew prepares to engage the Borg. You have the uncanny, poignant experience of watching the father you scarcely knew as he interacts with his shipmates, tries to save his friends, and bravely prepares for a battle he is doomed to lose.
2. I haven't played many Full Motion Video (FMV) games, but I thought this one was very well done. The acting is as good as that on any Star Trek episode; the Borg are horrifying and menacing; and Q is in magnificent form, as usual. It was great fun to have Q chastise and insult you in the same sarcastic way he uses with Picard or Janeway.
3. The puzzles are well-integrated into the story, and allow you to use some of the equipment and consoles that you've always wanted to try. I did not consider the bulk of the puzzles to be particularly difficult, although they do require some out-of-the-box thinking. There are lots of alternate endings in this game: most of them start with your demise, after which there is a commentary from Q as to the "efficacy" of your efforts.
Cons:
1. The game plays a lot like a movie, with certain decision points at which you choose how to act (these moments are clearly signaled in the game). There were enough of these to make it feel pretty interactive, but not nearly so many as in a traditional graphic adventure.
2. When a decision point occurs, the game will not respond if you click too quickly. In order for your decision to register, you must hold the mouse down firmly for a second or two.
3. I would have liked the game to be a little longer (though in the ongoing tension between length and quality, I'll take quality any day). Actually, I would have liked the game to be a LOT longer. Truthfully, I would have liked the game never to end...
Bottom Line: A Must-Have for any Trekker, or anyone who enjoys FMV adventures.
Like being a character in the TV show
This game is completely live action. You are a young ensign whose father was killed by the Borg ten years previous and now finds himself having to sit in the sidelines as the borg attack again. Suddenly Q shows up and offers you a chance for revenge... and a chance to save your father.
If you play it through and don't make any mistakes you have the equivelant of a 20 minute Star Trek episode that takes you around the various spots in a starship to deep inside a Borg cube. The game has a great cast of characters (although the only 'known' one from the series is Q himself) and some really thought proviking puzzles. Plus as a side bonus you have a special tricorder that you can use at just about any point in the game to find out about things and people and the history of the area and crew you exist with.
There is a downside though, firstly for a point and click game the controls can still be very difficult. There was one point where you had to push a button on a phaser but the durned camera wouldn't hold still long enough for me to manage it. Plus if you click the mouse too quickly the game will get confused and nothing will happen (something that happened to me quite often).
Although not a huge classic, I thought this was a great diversion from the usual fare of shooters. Consider it to be a long lost episode of Star Trek with you as the hero!
Very good!
In this computer game that seems more like aTNG episode, you take the role of Crewman Furlong, whose father was killed by the Borg. Q shows up, turns you into Security officer Sprint, and you are given a chance to save your father, and maybe the entire starship!
The only low point is in level three when you travel inside the Borg starship and keep getting assimilated and killed