STAR TREK:GENERATIONS

                  Review by Michael Raven

Command the USS Enterprise-D in pursuit of Doctor Soran!  Based on
the film of the same name, unlike earlier official Star Trek
offerings, this is more of a 'Doom' type adventure, where you
phaser down Romulans, search them, beam injured to sickbay... The
problem that I find, is that first it is trying to be entertaining
to a wider range of people, (a.k.a.  Doom/Quake) but doesn't want
to fall into 'another first-person perspective 3D shoot-em-up'.
When I want to play an adventure game, I liked it as in the older
Star Trek games - you control your officers, and work to sort the
puzzle out. You can't really fit that into a Doom-type game.

Second, the interactivity is rather weak. You have in your hand a
Type-2 Phaser, the most powerful Starfleet handweapon available.
You aim at a door, set the phaser to setting 16 (which according
to the Star Trek Technical Manual should be able to disrupt up to
650 cubic metres of rock), you fire the phaser - and the beam hits
the door. It doesn't vaporise the door, it doesn't blast a hole
straight through it, it stops at the door.

PLAYABILITY 70% Not very good, rather complicated.
LASTABILITY 86% Plenty to go at.
GRAPHICS 91% Excellent!
SOUND 70% Not brilliant, what I heard.

OVERALL 73% Not an awful game, but you have to like a strange game
genre to be into this.









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