Trek on! A game that splits you down the middle!
This game is basically a Space Combat Sim. You control a ship or groups of ships and fly them around and do missions or separately do skirmishes online and off. In this game you get to do ALL the ships, yes ALL of them from all the eras which makes it really awesome for nerds like myself. Online you can control the ships from other species including the Borg which all look the same and are either really horrid or really good, it all depends on the player.
Lets get the least cared about thing here. GRAPHICS. Its space. Theres not much to stare at anyways. So all the detail is in the ships so obviously the game looks good. I thought they could have done better overall but I am not complaining. When your in a firefight with multiple ships its a blast (no pun intended) and the damage to the ships is great as always!
The controls I thought would be hard as with any game like on ANY system including PCS. But oddly enough they are actually easy. But with anything its controlling RIGHT that makes a good captain. Torpedoes don't fire from the side of your ship you know....well not most ships.
The sound and music is better then average but nothing amazing. I would say its the best ever but I am a trek nerd so I am biased. The trek sounds are cool so what can I say. On a plus side though the captains of the ships from all the eras are the ACTUAL voices from the series. No fake stand ins here.
Negatives? Well online I wasn't crazy about. Since all ships are unlocked for online its always the same massive ships all the time just like in any game the best item/weapon/vehicle...etc gets chose. So it gets boring.
In single player the one thing that annoyed the heck out of me and really brought down some score points was the fact is you can't save during missions AT ALL. And this game is so darn picky that you mess up one little bit and the mission fails and you do it ALL OVER. So an hours work for nothing. On harder difficulties you get really annoyed. Especially on the last mission.
Overall at least rent the game and only buy it if you REALLY like Star Trek or think you would be willing to play Skirmishes by yourself because the story isn't worth replaying and the online was dead to begin with. But overall its still great game.