> > I never even knew this game existed. It looks to be terribly fun... the key word
> > there being terrible.
> >
> > [nerd mode]
> >
> > As a Star Trek Fan I'm pretty sure I should be offended.
> >
> > 1. The game should use phazers, not pistols.
> > 2. Borg don't attack unless you directly interfere with them.
> > 3. Phazers only work on the Borg for a few shots, then they adapt and their
> shielding
> > kicks in.
> > 4. Wtf? Did they assimilate Doom sprites?
> >
> > [/nerd mode]
>
> No, but there were three Star Trek Voyager PC games made that used the Quake 3
> engine: Elite Force, an expansion pack, and Elite Force 2.
>
> For a moment there, I thought these were based on those games, but it doesn't seem to
> be the case.
>
> Star Trek: Voyager is an arcade gun-shooting game in the grand tradition of Area 51,
> Virtua Cop and The House of the Dead. Unlike those games, though, it's populated by
> original alien adversaries designed exclusively for the Star Trek universe by the
> creators of General Chaos and Rampage World Tour. Named "Video Game Of the Year
> -2002" by Wal-Mart Stores Inc., this pulse-pounding shoot-em-up can be still be found
> in finer arcades, movie theaters and entertainment centers everywhere! Developed for
> Monaco Entertainment and manufactured by Team Play Inc. Programming: Monte Krol, Tim
> Truesdale, Jeff Nauman, Art: Ben Naumann, Tom Konkol, Mark Seika, Brian Colin.
> Design: Colin & Nauman
>
> "This client came to us with a license for the STV Intellectual Property and asked us
> to create an "Area 51-style" gun game. The client had no association with a
> manufacturer or arcade hardware system, so in addition to the normal challenge of
> designing the game, we had to design it without knowing the system it would
> eventually be manufactured for! We actually finished the game almost two years before
> it was finally manufactured & released.
>
> "Having a few hardcore trekkies on the team helped in a variety of ways... I remember
> during one trip to Paramount, artist Ben Naumann (no relation) and I were wandering
> around soundstages when we were confronted by an annoyed, cigar-chomping Levar Burton
> who demanded to know what we were doing on his closed set. I was speechless, visions
> of the deal going south running through my head, but Ben blurted out: "Mr Burton! I
> absolutely loved episode Blah-de-blah, in which Geordie blah-de-blahed blah blah..."
> Mr. Burton was more than mollified, and after only a few more moments of unabashed
> gushing fandom later, we made our escape." - BC (Source)
>
> BC being Brian Colin.
Yeah the difference being that those games were pretty good. I've still got EF sitting on my desk!
p.s. (By Doom sprites I wasn't referring to the quality or the production company, rather I meant that some of those Borg look less like Star Trek characters and more like Demons and Barons.)
Edited by HowardC (04/12/12 01:28 AM)
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