Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Fair Warning



Yesterday Star Trek Online was launched. I bought and played it.
To save myself the hassle of writing a long review of it, I will write only that I played it for slightly longer than an hour, and I haven't touched it since. It's 10:30 P.M. here now; I have had almost no desire to play it in more than 24 hours.
It would be a good game
...if this were 1995.
Yes, the A.I. is THAT bad.
Yes, the characters are THAT bad.
Yes, the graphics are sometimes THAT bad, regardless of the images that thay have pulled and featured on their site.
...And, perhaps most unforgivably, the storyline that I experienced is almost nonexistent.
I can endure shoddy graphics and poor hand-to-hand simulation IF the storyline is relatively good. In this case, it's not.
Avoid.

No comments: