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Last weekend I bought Bethesda’s Star Trek Legacy for my Xbox 360, as a big fan of Star ‘Wars’ games (Battlefront etc.) I was hoping to be equally enthused about Star ‘Trek’. However, with Xbox live my main priority on any games that I play, this game should be renamed Star Trek ‘Let Down’. For forty five minutes last night I tried to play against other Live players, ten times I got an ‘insufficient connection speed’ message just before the game started, five times my 360 crashed completely and had to be rebooted. It wasn’t just me, everybody was complaining in the lobbies. In the end I had to settle for hosting my own two player game - hardly as much fun as four player… and the game itself isn’t really worth all the trouble anyway.

The best things about Star Trek Legacy (in offline mode) are the graphics and attention to detail, choices of faction and associated space craft, and genuine actor narration (in all genres). However the gameplay itself is too fast to be called a strategy, yet too slow to be called a shoot ‘em up, I found it a bit like driving a Peugeot 206 on the M25 in the middle lane.

You can switch between up to four different ships in your fleet, steer them on impulse or warp power, fire lasers of photons at enemy ships or, if on the side of the Klingons, go into cloaking mode (not that it helps). That’s about it, no skill, no excitement just frustration. Word in the lobbies is that this game wasn’t really ready for release, and that the amazing graphics are killing it online. My advice if you’re thinking of buying Star Trek Legacy? Don’t make it so!

Buy mine on Ebay if you want…

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