Star Trek: Legacy Image
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 25 Critics What's this?

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Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 30 Ratings

  • Summary: Star Trek: Legacy places you in the role of the Admiral of a task force of warships, which you control in small and large-scale battles. Test your strategic and tactical skills in real-time combat featuring authentic spaceships, full damage modeling, and spectacular visual effects. The storyline spans the entire Star Trek Universe, including the Original Series, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise eras. Taking advantage of next-generation consoles, Star Trek: Legacy features dynamic three-dimensional battlefields with graphically stunning space environments filled with fully realized nebulas, wormholes, planets, and stars. With full multiplayer support, you can to choose from small-scale engagements to all-out war involving multiple star systems in addition to tracking stats and player rankings. [Bethesda Softworks] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 25
  2. Negative: 4 out of 25
  1. Although there are shortcomings, Legacy is an opportunity for Star Trek fans to experience ship battles from any of the Trek time periods. If you can look past the fact that you'll spend all of your time looking at the hulls of the ships, the battles can be fun.
  2. Pleasant to look at, but has very limited tactical depth. What is worse there is not really much else to do other than fire the phasers. Only a die-hard trekkie could enjoy this – and, sadly, probably will. [Feb 2007]
  3. As nice as it was to return to the space-combat genre, particularly seeing as how this was a Trek game, I was, in the end, left a bit flat by Legacy's final presentation.
  4. 40
    This game could have been the be all and end all for Trek fans and action gamers alike instead of the sad capstone to a long history of crappy licensed video games.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 19
  3. Negative: 12 out of 19
  1. anthony
    9
    this game is awsome, i dont understand why people dont like it,the missions are all different with loads of chalenging things to do, the graghics are emense, people dont realise just how hard it is to make these sorts of graghics, its in space, none of its real so the people who made it dont really have a base to work from.
    yea there is one or 2 problems, the controls are anoying yes (if you know how to do the lock on thing mail me), unfortunatly the multiplayer doent work on vista (whitch i have) but i bet they soon bring out a patch to solve it like thay have with basically all the other games in the world
    the performance thing, yea is it anoyin, but they tested it on a brand new computer, and one that has nothing else on it apart from the vital systems, thats is why it lags a bit, our computers have loads of stuff on them and it is amazin just how much it slows the computer down, and all the rubish that biulds up from the internet, defragment your computer that helps a lot, and a easy way to get it to run a LOT smother is to turn down that multi thing to x1, thats what i did and i dont even know what it does but it make a big defference to the performance, with no visable different to the graghic from what i noticed, i just think you all all taking the game the wrong way and arnt looking at just what you have bought
    its a great game and i cant say anthing esle about it right now, my email is ab.1@live.co.uk
    and mind my spelling lol
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  2. IanBell
    8
    It's the best Trek game to date, which may not be saying much. Reminds me of Bridge Commander on steroids. The voice acting is done by a lot of the real characters which adds to the authenticity. Great for fans, but not likely to win over any new converts. Expand
  3. JimmusM.
    7
    Certainly not the worst Star Trek game out. It's pretty and fairly easy to play. I just wish they'd do an open-ended Star Trek (ala Grand Theft Auto) where you could visit planets and the missions were not so linear. Is it so hard to do? You've got tractor beams, sensors, transporters and most of the goodies, but you can really only use them in predetermined situations, making them essentially useless. Expand
  4. JoeBlow
    4
    Graphics are sub-par, gameplay is horrendous, it's full of bugs, and there is no way to redefine your controls, or even see what button does what! It's a joke of a console port, and not at all worth the $40 I shelled out for it. Should've read the reviews before buying it. Expand

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