Star Trek Online Preview
Eurogamer has posted a preview of Cryptic Studios’ upcoming MMORPG, Star Trek Online.
The game is approximately equal parts space combat, interstellar travel and on-planet missions. As with the TV series (the original one, anyway), the action ensures that you’re never in the same place for very long, constantly moving between space and planet surfaces, boarding ships, spacestations and satellites, zipping between systems at warp-speed in search of where no man has ever gone before. Although the Klingon and Federation players will be locked in a war, the game is heavily instanced; all the foes you face will be computer-controlled. It’s emphatically not EVE Online.
Space combat is slow-paced and tactical. "If you look at combat in the Star Trek universe, it’s not a dogfighter,"says Zinkievich. "These are huge, powerful starships. It’s a tactical, strategic experience. It’s all about positioning, how you’re balancing the energy to your different systems, lining up that final attack and taking them down."
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