New Star Trek Video Game Trailer Is A Total Shoot-Em Up

Date: Apr 17, 2012 | Author: Josh Tyler | Category: Sci-Fi

Remember when Star Trek was a thoughtful science fiction series about the future of humanity and the importance of exploration? Those days are long gone both in the movies and apparently in video games.

Now Star Trek is a shoot-em up pretty much like everything else, and the latest trailer for the new Star Trek video game reflects that. Take a look…

Turning into a full on action franchise isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I miss the thought-provoking nature of what Trek was but all this running around and shooting stuff is a lot of fun. And in the video game universe in particular, Trek could really use a shot in the arm. A lot of people have been heralding Mass Effect 3 as the new Trek, accomplishing all the complex universe creation that Trek used to do so well while also making it easy to shoot things.

Maybe this new Star Trek game is the answer to the Mass Effect challenge. Right now the only Trek presence in the gaming world is Star Trek: Online. That MMORPG is still going strong and completely worth your time, but it doesn’t really reach out to console gamers who just want to shoot stuff. This clearly does.

Comments

Guest

Looks like someone is forgetting a game called Elite Force. Star Trek shooters aren’t anything new. Get off your high horse. This could turn out to be a fun game.
http://twitter.com/DeepSpacer Brian Williams

I think the all of the higher minded Trek ideals died about the time DS9 came out. Game looks great though, especially for a downloadable title.
- JT
  
  I wouldn’t say that. DS9 at least had IDEAS. It really tried to explore complex and interesting things. It did skew away from the rosy vision of the future, but it did still have a really interesting vision. Voyager is where Trek really stopped being about anything at all.
  - http://twitter.com/DeepSpacer Brian Williams
    
    To me, DS9 seemed pretty contrary to the what made Trek special in the first place. They spent the entire time on the station, and whenever they did get a ship, it was used purely to blow stuff up. I’m not one that has an overly rosy vision of what Trek was about, I realize there was supposed to be action and danger, but DS9 was all about alien cold wars, then hot wars, then cold wars again, punctuated with forays into religion and politics. Not enough exploring for my tastes.
    
    I didn’t like Voyager mostly because the characters all seemed to be made out of card board.
    - JT
      
      I would say that DS9 was exploring humanity, rather than physical space. It was about more than action and danger, the show’s best episodes rarely revolved around that. It had that sometimes, but it had ideas, either way. It definitely departed from the original Trek, but it still had substance so I’m fine with it. And they stuck to Roddenberry’s main ideology, to the idea that humanity had solved its internal problems and was out in the galaxy.
      
      Have you seen the episode “The Visitor”? To me that embodies everything that was great about DS9.
      - http://www.facebook.com/christopher.paris1 Chris Paris
        
        DS9 only got good when Sisko grew a beard. Before that, his acting was wooden, as if Al Gore was cast in the role. He clearly wasn’t comfortable until that beard. Weird.
      - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=548081560 Fran C Spence
        
        yes they had to make Sisko in to one of Avery’s old characters, Hawk from Spencer for higher to be cool
      - http://twitter.com/DeepSpacer Brian Williams
        
        Didn’t see that one. That may have come on after I stopped watching.
    - JT
      
      I would say that DS9 was exploring humanity, rather than physical space. It was about more than action and danger, the show’s best episodes rarely revolved around that. It had that sometimes, but it had ideas, either way. It definitely departed from the original Trek, but it still had substance so I’m fine with it. And they stuck to Roddenberry’s main ideology, to the idea that humanity had solved its internal problems and was out in the galaxy.
      
      Have you seen the episode “The Visitor”? To me that embodies everything that was great about DS9.
  - http://www.facebook.com/christopher.paris1 Chris Paris
    
    Which was a shame. Voyager had an incredible premise and tremendous opportunity. Put a split-crew on a marooned ship in an unknown quadrant. The crew was at each other’s throats, and had to fight each other as well as the unknown external enemy. Then, by episode 2, they resolved all their internal struggles, all the edgy characters became bland crewmen, and the enemies looked like Sideshow Bob from the Simpsons and acted for comedic effect rather than menace. The later introduction of a pandering, fanservice, catsuited barely-Borg sexpot didn’t help give it any cred. But then that’s what we came to expect from Berman/Braga at that point. Those drugs had definitely kicked in.
    
    So much potential squandered.
Teknoman4

mass effect anyone !!!!!!
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=548081560 Fran C Spence
  
  Great game better than Star Trek DS9
Manxman1831

Going to be controversial, but to me DS9 was nothing more than a repeat of Babylon 5 stories, right down to the Defiant/White Star. THIS game looks like it has brought Trek into the realm of the 1st person shooter/RPG, in a way that the Elder Scrolls franchise has brought swords and sorcery into the same genre. I look forward to further trailers and previews.
- JT
  
  Isn’t Star Trek: Online already doing that though?
JT

Isn’t Star Trek: Online already doing that though?
JT

Isn’t Star Trek: Online already doing that though?
Baby Fart McGeeziaks

I assume this takes place between the two films?
Ilikegemenc

massive meh
Samuel Jones

I hope Shatner and Nimoy models become available as DLC. I want to run around as 2012-era Shatner, hanging from ledges and punching dudes in the face.

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