Star Trek Online

Cryptic got the license to make STO. What became of it? A game that is engaging and challenging as you want to play in endless hours, or a pile of garbage that are not under any circumstances are worth your money. Let us explore!

The package came with it, in addition to games and manuals, postcards with motifs Star Trek (not the art of sending snail mail quite dead?), And a t-shirt. Whether the game is good or not seems I will gain from this experience when I am in need of more clothes. Especially given that I bought the game on sale (buy 3 pay for 2. 99 SEK each).

When installing the game will be asked to register with the Cryptic and decide what you want for payment plan. Then there is an MMO game, it will require a certain amount each month, except the first 30 days. I would rather not determine any payment plan and to decide it after my 30 days are over. What did not go, but you may instead choose an option ($ 14.99 per month, $ 41.97 every three months, $ 77.94 per half-year, $ 299 for lifetime) and fill in how you want to pay. Then you get cancel it before the 30 days run out and you lose no money.

When the game is installed you can start creating their character. You can choose to either play as a character from the Federation or a character from "The Klingon Empire".

I chose to be called Capn_Tightpants (Firefly reference). There is quite a high potential to self-modify how your character looks like. You can either choose to play as them more famous races (species might be more accurate?), Human, Vulcan, andorian, ferengi (Urk) or invent an entirely self.



Once you've done all that you start a tutorial. There you will learn first to control nature. Which seems a bit clumsy variant of the standard WASD controls.

Then, you learn to steer a ship, and this is where we see the game's strength. Space battle is about to operate in such a way to access their weapons and motståndarskeppet is in such an angle that it can not do the same. Then when one side of the ship has even ironing must then go another direction of the enemy now in order to recharge the shields on the injured side.

Then we finally go out in the galaxy and explore it on their own. It begins by exploring the space station outside Earth. Where you can get missions klasisskt wowmanér by talking to someone with a silly symbol on his head. Get the officers, equipment and ships etc. Quite a lot to go through.

Then give it out into the galaxy to do assignments. At first, quite entertaining. But it becomes trite after a while. There are two types of mission "mission land" and "fly-spacecraft missions." What you do is quite similar the only difference is the environment to do it in. The assignments is to shoot Klingons / Romulan / Gorm and or scan / interact with objects.

It's not very Star Trek. You shoot everything that moves and takes root in people's drawers to find the loot. If there is no voice acting except Leonard Nimoy who sometimes says things like, "Congratulations Lieutenant." When you receive a message from Starfleet or another so it is only a pop-up box that shows up with a face that stares at you blankly with an accompanying text box.

It does not care about the story when it is only making the same thing again and know that it does not matter in the long run. Not very engaging, I would say.