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Bethesda stardates Trek games

By Tor Thorsen, GameSpotPosted Oct 3, 2006 3:13 pm PT

Encounters ships today, Tactical Assault warps out October 24, and Legacy boldly goes where no game has gone before on November 7.

Today, Bethesda Softworks shipped out the first of a trio of forthcoming games based on the iconic Star Trek television and movie series. First out of the gate was Star Trek: Encounters, an E10+-rated PlayStation 2 game developed by 4J Studios. The "arcade style space combat game" will let players engage in interstellar battles taken from all five Star Trek television shows: the original series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise.

Trekkers now have a date!

On October 24, Trekkers can boldly go where no gamer has gone before while on the go. That's when Star Trek: Tactical Assault will ship for the PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS. Developed by Quicksilver Software (Master of Orion III), the E-rated game is a real-time space-combat sim that pits Federation starships against a series of foes, including the Romulans and Klingons.

Last but not least, Bethesda also announced that Star Trek: Legacy will warp into stores on November 7 for the Xbox 360 and PC. Developed by Mad Doc Software, the still-unrated Legacy is a space combat sim that will cast players as a Starfleet admiral commanding a task force of vessels, and it will feature more than 60 vessels culled from the entire Trek timeline (AD 2151 to 2376).

Legacy will also sport the likenesses and voices of all five actors who played captains on the Star Trek shows. William Shatner will reprise his role as Star Trek's swaggering Captain James T. Kirk, while Patrick Stewart will once again polish off the pate of The Next Generaton's Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Avery Brooks will return as Deep Space Nine's Captain/Commander Benjamin Sisko, Kate Mulgrew will don the unitard of Voyager's Captain Kathryn Janeway, and Scott Bakula will make the quantum leap back into the uniform of Enterprise's Captain Jonathan Archer.

61 Comments

  • L-Cipher

    Posted Oct 20, 2006 6:28 am PT

    I hope it lasts longer than Bridge Commander!

  • solid-_-snake

    Posted Oct 17, 2006 2:27 am PT

    UK release date is December 8th along with Encounters and Tactical Assault, according to game.co.uk

  • kabbat

    Posted Oct 16, 2006 8:20 am PT

    When does it come out in the UK?

  • SWGruler

    Posted Oct 7, 2006 3:58 pm PT

    Wow....that pic shows very obtuse features....I wasnt sure if the "Trekkers now have a date" was a joke, either way its still funny.

    The game im looking at is Legacy, though i havent been following it much, and just found out about 2 months ago, ill probably be getting it.

  • _Sam_

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 6:06 pm PT

    I never really got into Star Trek

  • RATULTG

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 12:48 pm PT

    ENGAGE!!

  • RATULTG

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 12:48 pm PT

    ENGAGE!!

  • JMizzle

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 7:54 am PT

    "Lets Slip the dogs of war"

  • edmakel

    Posted Oct 5, 2006 12:47 pm PT

    Don't try and hold on to those few dollars in your pocket!!! "Resistance.....is Futile......"

  • VanGriffin

    Posted Oct 4, 2006 8:31 pm PT

    Charge Photons, and Beam me UP, PSP

  • rokkuman09

    Posted Oct 4, 2006 4:24 pm PT

    Live long and prosper!

  • voyager007

    Posted Oct 4, 2006 2:52 pm PT

    No best Star Trek game out there is Star Trek Armada for PC. Rocks hardcore. Try it sometime if you can find it.

  • maltesefalcon42

    Posted Oct 4, 2006 2:05 pm PT

    fluffebunnie, the precursor to Judgment Rites you're thinking of is Star Trek 25th Anniversary, and the TNG game is called A Final Unity. Both are great.

  • fluffebunnie

    Posted Oct 4, 2006 1:53 pm PT

    Megavideogamer
    Has there ever been a good Star trek video game?

    Actually yeah. There were a couple cool original ST adventure-style games for PC, one of which was called Judgement Rites , I forget what the other one was called, but Judgement Rites was the sequel. There was also a TNG game on the PC that sort of followed the same formula but it was based in the TNG universe and had the voices of the cast. That game was pretty hot. In addition to leading away teams down to planets to solve puzzles and whatnot, you came into contact with ships in space and you would have to negotiate with them or fight.

    I think the problem now is that they make the games all combat and that isn't what Star Trek is supposed to be. But then again, even Star Trek isn't what Star Trek is supposed to be anymore. The further removed these people get from Roddenberry's death, we see the quality of the shows declining at a slow rate until you end up with the failure that is Enterprise and Nemesis.

  • maltesefalcon42

    Posted Oct 4, 2006 1:48 pm PT

    Megavideogamer, yes - it's called Star Trek: Judgment Rites, from 1993. Good luck finding it or getting it to work on a modern PC, but it's a blast.

  • ele975

    Posted Oct 4, 2006 1:38 pm PT

    Star Trek: Raise of the n***s and the return on the massive costume selling Star Trek costumes.

    They're back...and we're the victims

  • Megavideogamer

    Posted Oct 4, 2006 1:33 pm PT

    Has there ever been a good Star trek video game?

  • antonyleigh

    Posted Oct 4, 2006 12:46 pm PT

    Apart from Tactical Assault, I can't find anywhere that will be selling Encounters & Legacy here in the UK

  • xelloss88

    Posted Oct 4, 2006 12:00 pm PT

    Would rather have a Battlestar Galactica game then a star trek game.

  • Buffulor

    Posted Oct 4, 2006 9:18 am PT

    PREPARE FOR RAMMING SPEED!!!

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