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Binding: CD-ROM Brand: ACTIVISION EAN: 0047875300255 ESRB Age Rating: Teen Format: CD Label: Activision Manufacturer: Activision Model: 30025 MPN: 1-58416-209-0 Platform: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95 Publisher: Activision Release Date: March 14, 2001 Studio: Activision Accessories: Editorial Review: Product Description: Sensitive situations call for discreetoperations! Product InformationDeadlocked in a desperate war the Federation creates a covert team ofspecialists trained to eliminate problems Starfleet can't officiallytouch. Their identity is undocumented; Amazon.com Review: Star Trek: Away Team brings Gene Roddenberry's famous creation to yet another game genre: tactical strategy. Tactical strategy is typically turn-based, only this one is in real time. Still, Away Team has a lot more in common with games like X-Com, Jagged Alliance, and Baldur's Gate than it does with StarCraft. The concept casts you as commander of a Federation commando group. Using new technology, you and your crew are chartered to infiltrate galactic hot spots and efficiently handle problems. Your best tech toy is a ship that, thanks to an experimental holographic projector, can look like anything you want it to. This variable cloak lets your team move into position to beam down and take care of the problem with minimum fuss. Commander Data (voiced by Brent Spiner of Star Trek: The Next Generation) doles out advice as you outfit your team and carry out diverse missions, such as hit and runs, rescues, sabotage, and raids, using all kinds of cool Federation tools and weaponry. Each team member has his or her own unique skills and equipment. For example, the group leader has grenades, the Russian engineer is the only one who can use a Romulan cloaking device, and your Vulcan security officer can mind meld with the enemy, giving you temporary control of him. The strategy is solid and the game is brisk and attractive, although it is crippled with substandard artificial intelligence. Your troops aren't smart enough to return fire on their own, and you'll begin to wonder if the enemy has any battle plan at all. Missions are puzzlelike and repetition is necessary, often tediously so. And there is only a tiny fraction of the multiplayer options a game like this should have. Multiplayer is only available in cooperative mode and only then on linked computers at home. What? You don't have two or more computers linked at home? Sorry--there are no Internet options. --Bob Andrews Pros:
Amazon.com Product Description: Star Trek: Away Team puts you in charge of an elite group of officers brought together to take care of the Federation's dirty laundry. Your Special Forces unit will consist of 22 characters, each with a unique expertise, such as medicine, engineering, science, security, and command. Before each of the 18 missions, you'll pick a team consisting of three to six officers, based on what type of skills you'll need in order to complete the mission. During the missions you'll view the game from a classic isometric perspective, and can move your squad in real time or pause the game to issue commands. Enemies include Borg, Klingons, Romulans, and rogue Federation members. Locations include Qu'nos, Romulus, Earth, and Vulcan. Equipment includes tricorders, phasers, hyposprays, and phaser rifles. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - st-atgreat game. had the demo years ago but could never find the game. good game play. don't need a high end system to enjoy this one. Rating:  - A very fun game for the Trek fan.I first picked this game up because I hadn't played a good Star Trek game for a while, and this was on sale. So even though it got mixed reviews, and I liked first person shooters better (like the Star Trek Voyager game) I picked it up and installed it. Right from the start I liked it. Voices from the TV shows, Brent Spiner returns as Data to guide you though the first mission so you know how to approach it, as well as intruguing new characters and ships all pull you into the game play. I like it ... Read More Rating: - Star Trek: Away TeamI just got this game at Bookmans last night. I have played it and the gameplay is pretty hard. The plot is also weird. Data wants you to incapacitate the Romulan with a Neural Disruptor instead of using a phaser. What is up with that? I am just rating this game 5 stars because I have not played it that much and that I have hopes that the game will be better Rating: - Desperados in the ST universeI was leery about buying this game because it had gotten so many mediocre reviews from the general public, but I bought it anyway in 2002 because I found it at a reasonable price on Amazon. I must admit that my Trek-addiction really paid off here, as I found the game to be a pleasure. For those of you who have played the squad-based Cowboy game Desperados; you will find that Away Team is very similar in progressing through the missions. Stealth is the better part of valor here and it makes ... Read More Rating:  - A great opportunity lostWhat a shame. Great idea, great concept, but so poorly delivered. This is not a patch on Commandos 2 and it lacks everything that made Commandos 2 so good. The characters are dull and the games leads you rather then allowing you to direct the flow of the game. Commandos 2 took me best part of a month and I enjoyed every minute of it, as a Trek fan I looked forward to this one but I finished it easily in two days and was sadly bored for most of it. Avoid. |
