Multiplay comes in seven different modes, including variations such as Planet Defend and Collect Latinum. The sound and music are all up to traditional Trek quality. The graphics, while not spectacular, do offer plenty of dazzle, especially the explosions that arc in a growing ring.
Some of the new gear ratchets up the destruction level to admittedly fabulous new heights: the Cardassian Dreadnought missile, for instance, is a projectile the size of a starship that can destroy space stations with a single hit. The people who will enjoy Armada 2 are diehard fans of the first game (which greatly out-performed Activision’s sales predictions) and Trek fans who revel at the chance to pit new starships against each other on the galactic battlefield. Granted, there’s a pop-up that appears after you hover over a selected unit, but it’s not feasible to use during the chaos of combat. Massive melees between hordes of Cardassian and Species 8472 ships can quickly deteriorate into a jumbled, confused mess. It gets more confusing if you’re fighting a race with vessels that look similar. You get 80 ship types — so many, in fact, that most players will have trouble remembering which ships is which. Partly responsible for my disinterest is the often-muddled combat. But despite the diversity, the game never quite seemed as excited as other action-strategy heavyweights like StarCraft or Red Alert 2. You’ll be colonizing planets, trading between space stations, and fighting with enemy fleets. And the game’s now playable in true 3D, whereas the original had 3D units moving around a flat 2D plane.Īrmada 2 gives you a lot of stuff to do.
Each race has its own series of special weapons and super-special weapons. You get six playable races: the Federation, the Klingon Empire, the Cardassian Union, the Romulan Empire, the Borg Collective, and Species 8472. The Borg are back with an insidious new weapon that threatens the very fabric of the galaxy.The list of features included in Star Trek Armada 2 will read like a Trekker’s Christmas list. Star Trek Armada’s unique combination of 3D and 2D technology may cause issues when the ESC key is pressed during game play. Meanwhile, a spatial rift has the mysterious Species 8472 flooding into Federation space. Troubles that may occur include minimizing, loss of textures or a complete lock-up. Battle in intense competition over TCP/IP LAN, where the outcome of every encounter depends on your ability to manage your fleets across the galaxy. All-new ship classes, weapons and intense tactical challenges collide in epic 3-D battles.Ĭommand from any angle-formation affect stategic and tactical decisions.Ĭontrol over 80 unique ships, with up to 16 ships per fleet. This default view allows you to control your ships from overhead. This mode allows you to control ships right in the midst of the action.īattle in the Alpha Quadrant, Borg territory and never-before-seen fluidic space.
Fleet Operations is a popular skirmish and multiplayer orientated total conversion modification for Activision's real-time strategy game, Star Trek: Armada II.
Old nemeses await, plus new threats includings Species 8472 and the Cardassians.Ī wide variety of full-range weapons inflict facing-based damange on enemies. The project's goal was not only to create a simple 'modification', but to design a total conversion to make Armada II a worthy successor to the second best-selling Star Trek game, Star Trek: Armada (behind Interplay's Star Trek: 25th Anniversary by a small, but fair margin). Star Trek and related marks are trademarks of Paramount Pictures. Published and distributed by Activision Publishing, Inc.
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