Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10643 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Released on: 2002-11-29
• Platforms: Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP

Amazon.co.uk Review
Take to the planes of space once more with Star Trek: Starfleet Command 3 for the PC. The game, which continues on from the popular Star Trek Commander series, allows you to pit your wits against the Klingons, Romulans and occasional Borg in this real-time strategy battle fest.

Set before the latest Star Trek Next Generation movie--Star Trek Nemesis--the Klingon and Federations alliance has become awfully close--too close for the liking of the ever encroaching Romulans. And so with the chance of peace on a galactic scale, the Romulans want one thing and one thing only: war.

Playing all three races, there is plenty of depth for both the RTS fan and Star Trek aficionado alike, and with an array of weapons, shuttle craft to control and scanning to be done, this game will soon eat a couple of hours without any thought.

Graphics and sound are similar to the previous incarnations, meaning this game will easily run on a low-spec machine. Meanwhile the standardised inclusion of multi-player options, quick skirmishes and campaign-based levels shows that Activision is still offering plenty to play within the game.

If you are a hardened fan of the Star Trek genre, then this game will certainly be for you. Yes, there is less choice than in previous versions, but somehow this comes across as a good thing. For the real-time strategist, it offers something different, with plenty of time to manage weapons, ships and entire fleets --Jason Denwood

Customer Reviews

A great Star Trek game
After playing all 3 of these games I have to say this is the most enjoyable of them, the campaign is a huge improvement on the other 2 games focusing around a starbase built by the Federation and Klingon alliance and the Romulans who aren't to happy about it.

You can play as either of these 3 factions in the campaign and the s stories cross over and intersect very well, only by playing the 3 campaigns will you understand the whole story, and in the other campaigns menu there's also a brief but highly enjoyable Borg campaign. There are also Conquer the galaxy campaigns for all factions which basically puts you in a galaxy with Borg, Federation, Klingon and Romulan space and you have to destroy all the other factions to take controle of the whole galaxy, you start off in a frigate and have to work up to dreadnaughts and battleships and join fleets to take over planets, destroy starbases, destroy ships and raid convoys, this can take a VERY long time and therefore adds a LOT of replay value.

The ships are now from the programs and films as well as new made up ones, inlucing the defiant, voyager, and enterprise from next generation and the nemesis film, and also the Scimitar ship thats the romulans use against the enterprise in the film wich will add to the appeal and fun of using your favourite ship from the programs anf films. There are also a good variaty of weopons inluding topedoes, beams, pulses and cannons all of wich work in differant ways and cause differant effects including stunning enamy weopons, disabling warp drives, draining shields and of caorse just damaging the ship.

One of the best features of this game is the improved online campaign Dynaverse 3, which is like the Conquest campaign but is a lot more fun since you are playing against and with other people of all the factions this provides AMAZING amounts of fun and longevity to an allready great game.

If you like Star Trek then buy this.

A massive improvement over the previous two
SFC3 is without doubt the best Star Trek game you are likely to come across in the near future. Not only does it feel like you are there, but it allows you to command starships with the ease that so far only the actors on the shows have been able to display. SFC 1 & 2 were criticsed for their difficult user interface; SFC3 has radically improved this without losing much in the way of functionality. The only major difference is the move into the Next Generation/DS9/Voyager universe rather than that of the original series.

Graphically, SFC3 is amazing. Shields, phasers, torpedos, impact damage & leaks from drive systems are all beautifully rendered. Sounds & music are very well done, nothing sounds out of place or inappropriate. There is the odd bug; one annoying one is that upon a ship joining a game (your ship or an AI) it may for reasons that are a mystery have no power to shields or weapons and thus be a sitting duck. Thankfully this does not happen often, and a simple 'quit the mission & reload' will fix it.

Gameplay is excellent; enemies can appear staggeringly intelligent at times, attacking in groups from different quarters to ensure maximum damage and maximum stress :). In the single-player campaign, you get to interact with a variety of missions & ships, generally building up your prestige to be able to 'afford' better ships. One minor bug is that to ensure continuity in the odd SP mission, certain ships cannot be destroyed. So when the Enterprise-E has a Romulan-triggered black hole open up on top of it, it survives at 1% hull integrity rather than being ripped to shreds like everyone else. Pedantic, I know :).

My only major complaint is the lack of other ships, particularly in the single-player conqest campaigns. Aside from the four big empires' ships, virtually no other vessels are apparent. This is a shame given that Roddenbery's universe is supposedly full of a huge variety of alien species. This can make for sporadic long-term interest in playing rather than a regular 'must-continue-playing', similar to UT in that respect. Good for longevity, bad for short-term plot satisfaction.

That bugbear aside, this is an excellent game that every Star Trek fan should have, even if it's just to complain about what they got wrong ;).

amazing game, just blew me away
I bought this game thinking I was getting a real time strategy game like startrek armada, my heart sank when I realised it was more like a roleplaying game which I tend find cheesy and boring.My god was I wrong, after a small learning curve and bit of experimentation I found Its essentially a third person shooter (but your a ship not a person). The systems management is surprisingly fluid and natural with all the real annoying detail stuff pared down to allow you to concentrate on combat. And the combat is great, its like all the best starship battles from the series and films but you get to join in and kick ass, its great fun taking apart another ship or a starbase or defense platforms.
Two things really made this game for me, One, the weaponry feels great to use (phasors photon torpedos etc.) you really get a sense of the wallop they pack, and two you earn points which you can use to outfit your chosen ship with better weapons or shields etc. Configuring your own ship and trying it out is great fun.
The bottom line is if you even remotely like the startrek universe this games an experience not to be missed.