11/19/2020 (2 of 2 found this helpful)

Boldly Mediocre

One would think that after all these years, someone could develop a truly revolutionary, fun, exciting and just overall "good" game based on one of the most popular sci-fi series of our time. Yet time and time again, Star Trek games have failed to deliver. Yes, I admit I'm a hardcore Star Wars fanboy - the opposite side of the spectrum - but, let's face it, Star Wars has provided a bevy of memorable games while Star Trek has had barely the impact. That is why when a VR game promising to transport the player to an integral part of the crew was announced, I thought maybe we would finally have a worthy entry into Star Trek games. Alas, after finally experiencing (albeit in a non-VR version) the game, Bridge Crew once again squanders a worthy IP into something far too bland and repetitive to ...

Rating of
3/5 

06/19/2020 (2 of 2 found this helpful)

Hello, Computer?

Way back at E3 2016, Ubisoft pulled a promotional stunt that was guaranteed to balance Trekkies to the edges of their seats: The company showed-off a somewhat-misleading local-coop, VR-driven gameplay session in a new licensed ‘Star Trek’ game featuring beloved member of previous ‘Star Trek’ television casts, including Levar “Geordi LaForge” Burton and Jeri “Seven of Nine” Ryan. These ‘Trek’ actors were playing “Star Trek: Bridge Crew” (“Bridge Crew”), which looked, at the time, to be a fully modern reimagining of the type of gameplay embodied in the 1994 SNES game, “Star Trek Starfleet Academy: Starship Bridge Simulator,” which was one of my favorite ‘bad’ SNES games from back in the day.

The idea of piloting an accurate ‘Star Trek’-style starsh...

Rating of
3.5/5