I Went Back To Look For Him And Found Him Walking Into The Wall

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During the game you’ll have the opportunity to scan items using your tricorder. Be sure to try and scan everything you can. You’ll be able to get a range of intel from many items during the game. Ranging from found items and communicators to creatures, crewmen, plants and structures, the tricorder will be your best friend to earn experience, which can be used for upgrades on your weapons and tricorder.StarTrekTheVideoGame (8)Unfortunately, due to a poorly written script that never really touches on the emerging friendship between Kirk.

Spock and the rest of the crew and lower quality graphics, this game is not nearly as exciting as you’d think it would be. There do seem to be more cutscenes than there is gameplay, and this really detracts from the game itself. A good example is at the start of the game when Spock and Kirk are playing chess when you’re called to the bridge.You get control of your character for the 30 seconds it takes to get to the bridge and then you’re in the middle of a cutscene again. There are quite a few times this happens in the game.

Also, as you’re playing the role ...
... of a Starfleet officer you’d expect to have a little more freedom to wander the ship, but there is actually a very small area you are allowed to explore.The controller scheme is relatively simple and easy to remember, although you don’t have the option to map the buttons to what you would prefer. This becomes an issue during frenzied battle, when it’s very easy to mix up the buttons and end up shooting someone instead of just stunning them due to the need to switch between the right trigger to fire and the right button to stun.

Sadly, the frustrations don’t stop there, as the game is riddled with glitches, and there is more than one spot that will make you want to put down the controller and walk away. For instance, in one mission where you’re tasked with rescuing a fellow officer, I made the mistake of exploring a little bit to see if I could find any more items to scan (after clearing out the local enemies, of course). I crawled through a vent, looked around, and returned to the officer to walk him over to Sickbay – all while fighting off more baddies. I couldn’t go any further from there as the other character (Spock at the time) was nowhere to be seen.

I went back to look for him and found him walking into the wall, stuck at the vent that I had previously opened up. There was nothing that I could do to get him to stop. Not even trying to log in a second player, which apparently you fifa coin trader can’t do unless you’ve gotten to a save point. I had no choice but to do that whole round over again.StarTrekTheVideoGame (7)More glitches abound throughout the game, mainly relating to movement. The characters quite often do not move properly when directed to (using the left thumb-stick to move).