To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com
From: Allyn Gibson 
Reply-To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com

On Wednesday, July 2, 2003 Jay wrote:

> Is it me, or is a Star Trek first person Shooter a horrifying
> travesty of the whole trek concept?

That depends.

Will the video game audience buy a Star Trek FPS?  Yes.  We've had Klingon
Honor Guard (for the PC), Voyager: Elite Force (for PC and PS2), and now
Elite Force II.  First person shooters sell.  There is a market for them.

I've played the first two--KHG and V:EF.  They -work-.  The stories make
sense.  In the first, you're Gowron's personal security force. In the
second, you're part of a specially trained security detail for the Voyager.
 I have no trouble with these concepts.  They work as single-player games,
because you're doing what security personnel do--run and gun.

Maybe Jay's objection is simply to pure deathmatch.  But there's something
really cool about running around and fragging people on the original
Enterprise or down the Voyager's corridors.  Maybe because it's -not- what
you'd expect to see in Star Trek. :)

I hate to say it, but I'm not sure there's really a market for purely
exploratory video games.  Five, ten years ago, yeah.  But looking at the
video game market as it exists now, I think Activision made the right
decisions.  Action and strategy games work on the PC.  People will buy
those.  The days of Myst and its ilk are done.

Personally, I'd love to see a Star Trek RPG, along the lines of Baldur's Gate.

Maybe FPS and starship combat games don't capture all the subtle nuances of
Star Trek.  But they do embody certain aspects of the Trek universe.

And there's nothing wrong with that.

Allyn                                    http://www.allyngibson.net
AIM: mknzycalhn                                        ICQ: 4342396

"Who decides," Kenyon said, "what is right?"
  "The gods.  I just do my best to interpret."
  "And do you truly believe in gods, Mackenzie Calhoun?  Do you?"
  "I believe in myself.  That's generally been good enough."
   -- Peter David, "Once Burned"


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