User Rating: 8.7 | Star Trek: Elite Force II PC
As a worthy successor to it's predecessor, I found this game to be quite faithful to Star Trek lore and also to it's genre as a first person shooter. Ritual has managed to push the Quake 3 engine to it's limits, providing almost perfect skin texturing and model animation which is, I'm happy to say, much smoother then the first game. We start out on the Borg sphere, during the final episode of Star Trek Voyager. It was a nice touch seeing what really happened during the end of that episode, and how the Hazard team was trying to adjust with being back home again. I'm assuming the game takes place right after Star Trek: Nemesis as Riker, Troi and Data are nowhere to be seen. As far as story and continuity goes, they've remained true to the official storyline. The game play is rather good, the controls are quite similar to that of the first game, so veteran Hazard team members should be able to fit right in, and the learning curve is small enough that newcomers to the series will be able to catch on within a half hour. I had some problems running the game with EAX acceleration, so I turned it back to software acceleration. But other then that, it sounds great and the voice acting was superb. Overall, I found this game to be a great addition to the unfortunately lacking lineup of Star Trek games.
