Star Trek (2013)

Star Trek, also known as Star Trek: The Video Game is a 2013 third-person action-adventure video game developed by Digital Extremes and co-published by Namco Bandai Games and Paramount Pictures in association with CBS Studios International. The game was released in North America on April 23, 2013, for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows platforms.

Plot
The game takes place within the Star Trek alternate timeline universe, following 2009's Star Trek film and before Star Trek Beyond. It follows the adventures of Captain James T. Kirk (voiced by Chris Pine) and Spock (voiced by Zachary Quinto) and their crew on board the Starfleet starship, the USS Enterprise.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) Bad first impression. Kirk and Spock are likely to spawn in the same spot at the beginning of the game thus causing them to be inside each other.
 * 2) Badly lip-synced dialogue. The characters talk like robots.
 * 3) Idiotic and problematic AI for the enemies, and even worse for your co-op partner.
 * 4) *At launch the AI was so incompetent that the game was near unplayable. Now the AI does almost nothing beyond the bare minimum required to complete levels. Even on the Enterprise mission, your AI buddy does almost nothing.
 * 5) * Even patched, some combat sections are infuriating since the AI will suicide charge the turret enemies- which are already unbalanced- and get stuck needing a revive somewhere you can't reach them.
 * 6) Repetitive and linear level design that are often used in many other third person shooters.
 * 7) The game had a numerous number of bugs and glitches on launch; your teammates will refuse to follow you, you can get stuck in random places such as vents and doors, map geometry will occasionally disappear, and framerate issues and game crashes on every platform.
 * 8) In game camera angles are terrible, as it is way too zoomed in and without an FOV slider, it makes you often get cheaply hit by an enemy you can not see.
 * 9) The gameplay is mostly a simple, mindless cover-based, generic third person shooter that is a shameless rip-off of Army of Two with no variation. There is a section where you take control of the Enterprise, however it is merely a poorly made on-rails shooting gallery.
 * 10) Cover system doesn't work properly at times. You get out of cover quite a bit.
 * 11) Platforming sections are terrible, as it tries to be Uncharted styled, but does it worse, as the platforming is very slow.
 * 12) Barebones and poorly executed co-op that also has no drop-in and drop-out option, which is unacceptable for a game in 2013. On the PC version, the co-op mode didn't even work at launch. The developers tried to push the blame on Steam for the above issue, but it failed.
 * 13) *At times, you can have server disconnection due to the game being rushed as said below.
 * 14) If you try to play co-op online now, it'd be near impossible to find a player without going on achievement related sites like True Achievements or PSNProfiles, as you will find nobody playing the game, though you can't blame anyone for that as they moved on to other games.
 * 15) The developers couldn't handle criticism, as they also tried to increase its Metacritic score by posting fake reviews (the score went much lower after people caught on).
 * 16) The game was $60 at launch.
 * 17) The entire game fells very rushed as the game was released to store shelves in favor of mh:awfulmovies:Star Trek: Into Darkness.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Surprisingly good writing and voice acting, especially from Chris Pine reprising his Kirk and Zachary Quinto as Spock.
 * 2) The environments are varied and great to look at.
 * 3) Despite its poor use of the license, the game respects the franchise, genuinely feeling like Star Trek most of the time.
 * 4) The story, while nothing noteworthy and acts like a linear one, is decent and could pass as an episode for a TV series.
 * 5) One of the, which had William Shatner fighting a Gorn as a pretty neat callback to the original series.
 * 6) It's soundtrack and sound design are pretty good.
 * 7) The game modernizes the Gorn, who is a iconic villain from The Original Series decently.

Reception
Star Trek received mostly negative reviews and was a critical disappoint. The review aggregator website Metacritic gave the Xbox 360 edition of the game a score of 42 percent, the PC edition 43 percent, and the PS3 version was given a score of 45 percent.

Edge magazine said that "the game has more bugs crawling on it than a Fear Factor contestant", and mentioned issues such as the characters running through walls, enemies becoming immortal and camera angles showing the inside of Kirk or Spock's skull. Star Trek was otherwise described as bland, even running through to the achievements with boring titles and the co-op system "succumbs to awkward banter and gimmicky co-op puzzles".

Angry Joe of The Angry Joe Show gave the game a 3/10.

It is often considered as one of the worst Star Trek games of all time, alongside Hidden Evil and New Worlds.

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