Star Trek Deep Space Nine: The Fallen

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Customer Reviews:

buy it [Posted on 2005-05-31]
This game has everything. Great graphics, scenery, gameplay, story and awesome sound effects. It's hard as heck to find you way sometimes, but it won't get boring. Buy it.

Star Trek Game [Posted on 2005-07-01]
This game wasn't quite what I expected it to be. The game is not as user friendly as the Elite Force and other Star Trek games I have played. The graphics are slow and hang up from time to time which makes game play harder. I know for a fact it is not my graphics card. I think the technology is just older. Graphics were nice and there were cool features of the game. Just not quite what I expected.

One of the best Star Trek games! [Posted on 2006-06-07]
Much like the terrific series its derived from, Deep Space Nine: The Fallen is a great game that follows in spirit of the show.

I won't delve too much into the plot because its so thick with the lore of the DS9 series and I'd spend a whole 2 paragraphs describing it. Briefly, it involves Bajorans and their Orbs, Cardies and the Domoinion and a little bit of a new race not much spoken of on any of the latter series.

Technically, the graphics are choppy and ugly at times but you don't really care considering the year this was made. Aside from that, the building and ship designs are true to the ST universe as well as the tools, weaponary and characters.

Speaking of characters, only 75% of the actors of the show lend their talents to the game. Avery, Shimmerman and Meaney are absent but their "understudies" do a great job in their places. The acting overall is very good or as good as the show's performances.

The controls are easy to set up and use as well as the GUI. You can save anywhere you like in the game and bypass all videos at any time. All mission information is available to view for reference. I also like the Federation layout on the menu.

It's action packed and thrilling. Verious shoot outs with all sorts of cunning enemies as well as indigenous creatures on differnt planets.

The puzzles are well designed and pertinent to the plot of the story.

You get to play three different characters (Cisco, Kyra & Worf) in three different games that all parallel chronologically.

The only negatives are the occasional glitches with the video rendering but that can be fixed with a patch and the graphics.

It's one of the better titles in the otherwise lackluster crop of Star Trek games. Defiantely worth playing.

Cool star trek game, but aggravating [Posted on 2006-08-07]
This game is cool in that it resembles star trek details pretty well (including some actual actor voice-overs), but it is very aggravating when it comes to completing the missions. It is extremely easy to get lost...if you have little patience, this probably isn't the game for you.

Good DS9 game, even now in 2008 [Posted on 2008-01-14]
If you're good with first-person-shooting games and you have a bit of nostalgia for Deep Space Nine episodes, this game really hits the spot. Now a "bargain bin" title, it still is quite enjoyable for the different sort of gameplay it presents.

Among the highlights are the way the "episodes" in the game are presented as episodes from DS9 the TV series, and the voice acting is great, with original voices, even of some minor characters like Garek.

On the down side, the station itself seems a bit lifeless, and is mainly just a place to serve as a transition between the "episodes" that are mostly action-packed. A true DS9-spirit game would have had more character interaction and dialog choices.

Aside from needing to consult and online FAQ a few times, I found the game enjoyable to play, and I'm usually not a big fan of FPS games. One thing that took getting used to was modulating the phaser and use of a tricorder -- both elements that I now enjoy deep into the game.

If it weren't for the Star Trek themed backdrops, I'd probably not rave about it so much, so if you're not a Trek or DS9 fan you might want to stay away.

If you are a DS9 fan, and can tolerate the now older-looking graphics, you'll find much to like here, especially for the low selling price. Remember for Vista to use "Compatibility Mode" in the properties of the shortcut that lands on your desktop if you want it to run properly -- play with the settings a bit and it will run fine even at maximum resolution --- I do recommend turning off the shadows, as they mysteriously choke even my modern system when steam is coming from vents, etc.

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