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Title Star Trek - 25th Anniversary Game Type Adventure Players 1 Publisher Interplay Compatibility AGA only HD Installable Yes (required) Submission [email protected] Review Classic Trek - ah, now there's a license for a game! Plenty of scope for action and adventure here. So much so that Star Trek - 25th Anniversary is essentially 2 games in one.: A space combat simulator, and a graphic adventure. The game unfolds in a series of "episodes", of increasing difficulty, which begin with you, as Kirk, receiving your orders. You then navigate the Enterprise to where you're supposed to go (this is actually the game's copy protection), engage in a space-battle, and then beam down to sort things out yourself. Thus, rather than having one goal, you get several different goals to be accomplished in order. And this is where Star Trek becomes 2 games. In each episode, you are required to fight a battle. You take control of the Enterprise, and duke it out with Elasi, Klingon or Romulan warships. The battles progress from a relatively easy wargame against another Federation ship, to a major barney with an evil duplicate of the Enterprise. The learning curve is very good. You are presented with the familiar bridge of the Enterprise, dominated by the viewscreen, with the characters Kirk, Spock, Sulu, Chekov, Scotty and Uhura all sitting where they should be. Hitting tab switches your mouse pointer between a crosshair on the screen for firing and flying, and a pointer for issuing commands to the crew members (though you'll probably just use the keyboard short-cuts). These battles aren't exactly up to the calibre of Frontier, but they're great fun all the same. Once you've fought the battle, you beam down onto the planet, and Star Trek becomes a point-and-click adventure in the vein of Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Simon the Sorceror, et al. Unfortunately, it's not quite as good as these games. Whilst the graphics are 256-colour, they don't look qu

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