Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5032 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Focus Multimedia Ltd
• Released on: 2007-10-12
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP

Manufacturer's Description
Star Trek: Legacy is an epic game of Starfleet combat covering the entire Star Trek Universe. Players become the Admiral of a task force of warships and must lead their fleet to victory in large-scale battles. As the Admiral of the Fleet you choose the ships, equipment, and captains that you will lead into battle. The game is designed to provide an immersive strategic and tactical experience by emphasising the dramatic excitement of large-scale battles without the hassle of complex starship management.

Customer Reviews

a disappointment
I had high hopes for this game as I was easy thinking of the good progression they had through the starfleet command series.

the biggest disappointment was the inability to up grade ships as with the other games.

also that only one faction is used main in the campaign as other could easly be added as they were just as much affected buy the events in the game.

A good thing about the game is that the gameplay is good as you are take control of up to 4 ships this keeps you focused on the game.

also the gaphics are very good but with a slow computer you will not be able to take advantage of them.
I had to put in a new graphics card and I already had and older style 256mb card, altough this is enough memory the processing speed of the older cards is slower and just did not work.

overall a reasonable game but it didn't seem well thought out as with some of the others.

Disappointed
I bought the game as I love Star Trek and really wanted to get a game that was a little bit more interactive. After buying a new laptop, Dual Core, 2GB of active memory, I found that this still was not good enough for this game. Eventually I managed to reduce the game's setting so that I could at least play the game, but my graphics card, despite being in a brand new DELL laptop, doesn't seem to be happy with this game.

If you have a great Graphics card, then I'm sure that this game will be very entertaining, but for those of us with what would appear to be inferior graphics cards, the game is nothing if not frustrating.

The game's controls are supposed to be simply 'Point and Click' but as the program's responses are limited by your graphics card, you can find that it is nearly impossible to direct the cursor where you want it to be, and in a game when timing and action is vital, you can find that you are less than relaxed when you stop playing.

All in all, very disappointed, there's no reason why this game should need so much in the way of graphics card usage..... If I'd had known, I wouldn't have bought it.

I hated this game - but my 11 year son thinks it rather good
Star Trek Legacy cost me a tenner. Naturally I was hoping for a 'Star Trek [Voyager] - Elite Force' quality game, and just as ever with the Star Trek series this game is anything but. The idea is pretty good I suppose, no first person shooter, just drive your fleet of ships about and beat up the bad guys fleet - you can be Borg, Romulan, Klingon or from Earth (sorry The Federation). Graphics are fairly good and the Borg ships look cool, but the control interface is just too clunky and I find I shoot off in all directions and soon just give up and reload Thief III or Quake 4 and start strafing Strogg. It seems very marginally better with a joystick - but who cares. I thought what a waste of money. I suppose the gameplay is rather similar to Disney's 'Treasure Planet' game, but this older lower-res Disney game knocks the spots off Star Trek Legacy in terms visual style. Star Trek legacy has fairly high minimum system requirements: DX9 128Mb graphics card, 2.66GHz PentiumIV or AMD XP 2800+, 512Mb RAM, and XP only - it runs pretty fluidly on my son's oldish gaming PC: AMD-2 5000, 3Gb RAM with NVidia 7950 graphics card. Not sure why the games got a 12 rating, possibly because no self respecting preteen would touch this game with a bargepole.

That said, my 11 year old son got bored of his many war sims games and gave Star Trek Legacy a go. He has no interest in Star Trek at all (other than being entranced with Elite Force years ago) but simply loves this game. His ships seem to do his bidding and he regularly wins (in ensign/easy mode). His comment was 'Why don't you like the game - it's quite good. I have completed the campaign mode'. So obviously some can tolerate Star Trek Legacy, although even he doesn't play it much now and mostly choses the games like Supreme Commander, WarCraft, B&W2, Sid Meier's Pirates, Age of Mythology and Age of Empires III in preference. If you are into games like this, as my son certainly is, perhaps this Legacy game will appeal. Despite being a Trekkie, I'm not, so perhaps that's the problem. So I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone, it's dull dull dull (1*), but some obviously do like it (3*) and at least it's going cheap now. However if you haven't got Supreme Commander or it's add on Forged Alliance, I would definately get that instead [provided your PC meets the tough system requirements], as it's the really great game this could have been.