STAR TREK BRIDGE COMMANDER Totally Games classic

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Totally Games first non Lucas Arts game , the best and most beautiful representation of interstellar combat in the Star Trek universe , for the first time in full 3d [unlike starfleet command which has never had a z axis ]

If you tire of the amazing external views , with glowing engines and glistening lights on ships and stations ,you can actually take the helm of a virtual 3d Bridge with full 3d characters at each of the control stations ,working control panels and view screen, its completely up to you how much you want to control the ship directly or delegate as a real commander would

From Larry Holland author of the XWing , and Secret Weapons series command many Star Fleet and non Star Fleet vessels , offline in single player campaigns and online , set up skirmishes how about taking on a Borg Cube with the Defiant - recreate your favourite battles, choose the advesaries and locations . scan probe communicate attack orbit and defend to your hearts content

The best thing about this game apart from the gorgeous graphics , and acutal cast member voices [ Picard , Data] is the number of enhancements and mods available , with extra ships campaigns , bridges and special fx added.This is why BridgeCommander is one of the most sought after StarTrek games. Just check Google for the modding community.It really is quite a sight to actually see phaser banks light up the hull of the Enterprise in a circular pattern before discharging into your enemies shields or following a photon torpedo crashing through the hull of a ship - eat your heart out Kahn [sorry wrong series]. and also quite a challenge to balance defence and attack as you shift power from ships systems .. but don't fret Picard is around from time to time to offer training and Data later on.With all the mods available you can now stage almost any battle in glorious 3d which makes this a must have for Star Trek fans.If you are a Larry Holland fan then this game is a must have , as it represents the only recent example of Totally Games coding outside of Lucasarts.

As Star Trek games go , Bridge Commander is the best , and Larry Holland and co manage to shame all the other softcos who have had several decades to perfect the license, but somehow always manage to fall short of expectations/hype [some might say much like the films].

condition :used :full dvd retail release cover with 90 page manual + cd :good tested to install/play

the greatest of Trek games - attach a mic to your pc and you can even shout your commands at your virtual crew - make it so indeed !

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Star Trek Klingon Academy : This is Space Combat Simulation

Klingon Academy is the most core of all Space Combat Simulation games and certainly of all Trek games . 


However the Academy series of games , there are but 3 that I know of started off entertaining through comedy value . You actually have the legends Shatner,  Koenig , Takei et al  completely taking the task of teaching Starfleet Captains how to pilot their wessels oh so seriously. The end result is a mind meld  pastiche of non intentional comedy and Trekkie fan dreams come true. In short Starfleet Academy and its expansion pack,whilst not surprisingly absent in gameplay , are not to be missed for fans of Trek ,Shatner ,Koenig or Takei! how can you not play a game with briefings/fmv as awesome as this:

or this :

When the developers 14 Degrees East made the sequel Star Trek Klingon Academy , which is spread over around half a dozen cds, the simulation got serious , the environments became vast , tasks were detailed and there is an entire unmissable story that leads up to the Kitimer Accord in the Undiscovered Country movie . And it stars THE real actors , including Christopher Plummer . Famously  you got to find out how the old Klingon general got his eye patch! 

Released alongside the impressive Unreal powered Klingon Honor Guard , twas time to  break out the blood wine and sing  your favourite Klingon Opera. But that was a decade ago !

Star Trek Klingon Academy has  the most detailed and complicated control scheme , it puts the simulation in to space combat simulation . This is not like zeroing.... woah...there.It takes just enough time and effort to input the start up and launch sequence to make you feel like you had to work to get the ship going , and thats just to get the ships engines and cloak on line , then you have the task of navigation , combat etc . This is is not the simple turn and click of Star Trek Online`s combat or the great Starfleet Command series. And it is far more detailed than even the great Totally Games coded Star Trek Bridgecommander


You also play in full space , in full 3 dimensions , with a z axis , which is really impressive when you use  the full environment to hide , chase ships through asteroid fields , and this leads to some excellent Wrath of Khan moments . .  it actually feels like you are traversing space , much more so than any other Trek game .


Which leads to the next innovation environments or in Trek speak anomalies, enter certain nebulae and cloak , shields etc are useless , use asteroid fields to hide , chase ships around the corona of stars , or around planets and asteroids . Each gives you strategic options that you can use to benefit the shortcomings of your present ship or by causing shortcomings to  the enemy which many outnumber or outclass you.


The kick is you play for the bad guys , whereas Kirk and co lead you through fairly mundane tasks in the first game , now Chang and your Klingon brethren will teach you how to be a completely nefarious Klingon , so you  cloak , hide behind an asteroid in the rings of a planet,spy on conversations , and at the right moment let out a Klingon war cry ....you know ... decloak and unload all your disruptors and photon torpedoes into  Federation/enemy  vessels , and chose which system of the ship to damage . You could take them out before they even raise shields! Oh you Klingon you !


Things get really interesting when the enemy can also cloak .  Battles can take hours of your life. Each one far more involving than space combat in present day Star Trek games.


Klingon Academy has an avid mod fan base , that has been providing updated missions ships and graphics ever since its release 10 years ago , including total conversions. check out the progress  here  and at klingonacademy.com  although much of that site has been Ferenginared at the moment.


For collectors Star Trek Klingon Academy is one of the most valuable and sought after of all Star Trek games .  Buy the original from thegameveda Ecrater store here 


To this date Klingon Academy is the most detailed space combat simulation , and probably the best Klingon based game ever until someone makes Klingon Vs Predator with playstation Move or Kinect controlled Batleths or Sim Qonos for our phones/iPads .....

 so Chang me people Chang me !

Qpla`!

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Celebrating STAR TREK ONLINE 1ST Year Anniversary 5120* 1600 style

Absolutely no Tribble at all :

Cryptic are legends for taking on Star Trek at a time when the movies and series were/ are stuck in a rut , producing a game , and a MMO at that , creating a community and sustaining it over a year , and  doing so using a paid subscription model is no mean feat . Star Trek Online was never going to be in financial tribble  for  Star Trek fans are never going to forget Trek , even if publishers and accountants mistakenly conclude they have ,for people like me just the ability to fly around a star base with  Earth in the background ,already had me converting my Beta to a lifetime subscription as soon as the game launched. 

STO 2560 *1600 ..that's old tech check out the 5120*1600 shots below!

To celebrate 1 year of STO Cryptic have littered the game with these pseudo holograms ,as well as showering bonuses on long term players   , which some how includes me , as  I have managed to play the game for 200 hours..... without progressing past the space dock area!

here are some 5120* 1600 pics I took whilst playing: and yes it flies at that res! click on the pictures and zoom in to see the detail... Remember when it used to take days for armies of German Commodore Amiga public domain coders to ray trace pictures like these at around a 10th of the res and detail ..if only Factor 5 had not been tempted by the Dark Side! 

dude I can see my house from here ....

5120 by 1600 STO gaming and yes you can read the in game menu text !

In the future STO will likely go freemium , as other great MMOs have done , but with fanatical fans , and ever expanding content this will not be for a considerable while . The lifetime sub itself is only really the price of 3 or 4 console games , and you are hardly going to get the same experience from those as you are from a full blown PC MMO  like Star Trek Online. Come on aren't you bored of generic third person fps sequels by now ?  


Currently there are discounts for the lifetime sub to celebrate 1 year of STO . So if you fancy hamming it up in the largest virtual Star Trek universe outside of your head , give it a go . Trek is not serious , even when it is serious ala TNG ,  it is ironic ,sarcastic and constantly takes the mick out of itself , so play with your tongue firmly in your cheek to get the maximum enjoyment.Play with a Tribble skinned mouse and Klingon forehead ridges for a slice of  Shakari

200 hours of game time later the USS 3ch3lon thegamevedas starship is still at space dock!well it is a nice space dock...

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Rejoice Turrican faithful Chris Hulsbeck is ...back ,creating the score for Star Trek Infinite Space

Yes video gamings other greatest composer (other than Mr Jesper Kyd) , the man responsible for your favourite 80s and 90s gaming soundtracks including Turrican,  all those Factor 5 classics (yes they were), ahh I remember fighting the evil Bydo empire to the tunes of  Mr Chris Huelsbeck who is now responsible for the sound track for Star Trek Infinite Space , the latest browser and Unity based game to tempt Appsters away from their high maintenance closed Honeycomb and iOS gardens , and beck sorry back to the good old COMPUTER!


Over 2 decades ago I can vaguely remember Factor 5 coding demos for Amiga public domain , involving Trek ships and renders that took days to complete , what goes around comes around.....!


check out the tunes here  and the legend that is Chris Huelsbeck here and his 5th Symphony   below.........................

for collectors check out the  Turrican series 

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Star Trek Online on Joojoo a Multitouch Windows 7 Vulcan salute to all the nay sayers...

A year ago the brightest and shiniest tech blogs told you that the joojoo tablet could not even run Flash:Even more vitriol was poured on the idea that Windows 7 would be of any use on the tablet form factor..... Well then...


This is Star Trek Online , the 12gb install , full PC MMO , running on just such a joojoo tablet with Windows 7 and it flies.. Maybe it is the maturity of the game engine , but I did not expect to be able to play this game at this speed or detail . The fact that I am doing so using a touch screen adds infinitely to the Star Trek atmosphere , as any PAD fan will tell you!..  STO has been sitting on my gaming rig for a year almost , yesterday I put the install data onto my joojoo ssd to see how the nVidia Ion handled the game .In fact ,Cryptic if you are listening this is the way I am always going to play.Lets take the USS 3ch3lon out for a spin using touch!

Speaking of which  . pinch and zoom works , rotating the screen and using all the HUD controls , just a finger touch away , launching photon torpedoes by touching an on screen control is way more 25 th century than than clicking a mouse button! If you must you can control the game with any joypad including your younger siblings 360 wireless pad , and even the onscreen touch Windows keyboard as I will show you later....

First lets start with a basic tour:

Now let us get down to some combat , again check the speed of the game , and the detail , this is my first attempt at touch screen combat by the way , at least that's my excuse ....

and now having discovered the target camera let's try again 

and if you do not have an external keyboard handy , you can play with the onscreen keyboard too!

and it is not all space combat! here are some pictures of missions that require you to have boots on the ground, all running happily on the joojoo tablet...

check out Astrometrics , minus 7 .... 

and every one's favourite the Galaxy Map ( which you can pinch and zoom to really show off to the half borg Valkyrie you always wanted to impress)

all in all certainly not bad for tablet and OS that receive so many biased negative vibes from Cupertino para-sites

What you need on your tablet IS your desktop, not some cut down or streamed facsimile , with all the freedom that comes with a full OS running the same software and drivers as your main pc , as you can see this is possible , the hardware exists already to blow away the locked phone os tablets that current market leaders would shackle you to. 


My year old joojoo can do it ! The joojoo as I have stated before is the Millennium Falcon of tablets , it launched with its hyperdrive sabotaged , but packing the hardware that it does , and  after making quite a few special modifications my scruffy looking nerf herding self , she's the fastest tablet in the galaxy... till i manage to stick an i7 mobo in there.....

Using tablets for a year now , I  moved past the bling and Starbuck posing of mine iPad 1/2, and have seen how gaming with  Windows 7 on a Tablet completely pwns gimped a phone OS like Android and iOS . You see Onlive , Gaikai ,Steam , browser based MMOS , and millions of full pc games are my app store....  My tablet is a desktop replacement , with no compromises . 

Seeing Crysis 2 , or Assassins Creed 2  , Batman Arkham , or playing my Steam collection  on a tablet  is slightly more impressive than waiting for my Infinity Blade App to update and run at that funny 1024 768 res..... 

The joy of playing full PC games on a tablet , there is no App for that

Live long and prosper!

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Star Trek Birth Of the Federation + joojoo tablet PC = LCARS heaven

Star Trek Birth of the Federation is quite the best Star Trek  and XXXX game (that's the XXXX genre people)  ever written , sought after by collectors , and updated by modders to date ,over a decade after its release  . And young'ns all that DLC is free and user generated! One game of this classic can last months. Not surprsing when you consider that the folks behind Master Of Orion , also coded this gem. 

BOTF , has the most beautiful user interface of any game , totally simplistic , 2d in fact , most of the time , but just the sight of it sets Star Trek fans midichlorians racing ( sorry George had to get a Trek vs Wars ref in somewhere ) , hmmmh ,  for the way you interact with this astonishingly (for a Trek license) deep game ,   is based on the fabled LCARS interface that you see all your favourite characters from Seven to Tasha  operating (although some more briefly than others) . 

Years ago , over a decade ago fans dreamed of their own Star Trek PADs with LCARS interfaces, well here is how I play the game on a Windows 7 Joojoo tablet pc , you know the one they said had a totally wrong aspect ratio , turns out for my Star Trek gaming and LCARS fantasies that it's perfect in the video above you will see me playing with the interface rather than playing with the game in any real sense , like the Meerkats (sadly under represented in the Trek universe) say life is beautfuls when things are simples Keptin!

thegameveda will return with more Star Trek  ( and Star Wars ) Classics playing on more hardware you never heard of , in the best spirit of the Federation , going boldy ....

Collectors can buy Star Trek Birth of the Federation from thegameveda Ebay Store , or thegameveda Ecrater 

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Star Trek Online's The Foundry : Tribble at Mill???????

Star Trek Online now lets you mess around with something called The Foundry , considering the average Trek fan could spend an entire Vulcan  lifetime playing the MMO ,  the question is will adding user created content  elevate Star Trek Online to the marriage breaking and making epic status of past great OCD MMOS ? 


KHAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNN!

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Acer Iconia Test no. 4: Dual Touch Screen MMO gaming courtesy of Star Trek online

Naturally you need to know if the Acer Iconia can handle MMOs , so here we have thegameveda testing Cryptic`s Star Trek Online , first a passive mission to show how the interface works , note the HUD can be resized to suit your fingers! Also note that the game plays across both screens , at speed , and you get a tremendous sense of vertigo looking down at the tablet . Excuse the gaming skills , I was playing with one hand whilst filming with the other at an angle that caught both screens (some of the time !) 

It's multitasking but not as you know it ..fascinating...absolutely fascinating ....
Right now I have Star Trek Online still running but minimized whilst I imported the above video , edited in on screen with Windows Live Moviemaker , uploaded it in youtube in the other half of that screen , and in the 2nd screen typed this blog entry  whilst the youtube video finished uploading . That is multitasking , made elegantly simple on the Acer Iconia , and the thing is not even warm ! This dual screen tablet clearly packs more punch than any other tablet pc and is uniquely suited to multitasking  with a UI that is geared towards multitasking with programs ,productivity applications , games ( a full MMO!) all able to be open and accessible thanks to the Iconia's unique Windows Manager : 

Combat to follow later , after thegameveda get's some rest... 

 

 

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