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Posted: 07:30:04 on July 21 2002
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Gaming

Gamespot has previewed the forthcoming resurrection of Interplay's popular capital starship combat game, STARFLEET COMMAND, by new license holder Activision in this fall's STARFLEET COMMAND III.

The original games, popular with gamers for their realistic approximation of space combat between the large starships of the STAR TREK universe, were based on a board game of the same name and allowed players to take command of the TOS movie-era starships.

Under development by Taldren, the same company responsible for the first two games in the series, SFC3 updates the game into the time period of STAR TREK: NEMESIS and puts TNG, VOYAGER and DS9-era starships at your command.

"Starfleet Command III will also feature the ability to customize ship configurations, officers who improve with experience, much more detailed graphics, and a streamlined interface," writes Gamespot editor Sam Parker.

The game will allow players to assume the role of the Federation, Klingons or Romulans and include encounters with the Borg, Cardassians, Ferengi and new races.

"The developers have worked to streamline the interface to make things more accessible for new players, simplifying the way ship data is displayed, adding a tactical mini map, and making AI-controlled ships in a task force more autonomous, rather than giving total control--and responsibility--of all ships to the player."

One new feature is the ability of ships to go to warp during combat.

"Even though shields and phasers are down during warp, it does still introduce new tactical options, such as strafing runs while firing photon torpedoes."

In addition to enhanced graphical detail, SFC3 will promise proper scaling of ships and environments to add extra realism to gameplay.

"The graphics engine for the tactical portion of the game has seen a major overhaul. The ships are many times more detailed than those in the previous games, and they look quite good even while zoomed in close. The game's scale is made much more dramatic with the addition of much larger ships, like the giant Borg cube, which literally dwarfs even the biggest conventional ships, so it really is possible to re-create scenes where many Federation ships struggle to take down a single cube."

STARFLEET COMMAND III is on track for a November release and you can read more of the preview here. There is also a movie gallery from the game available to Gamespot Complete members here.

Thanks to 'Bean' for the tip.

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