Retro Review - Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force PC Game Review

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Star Trek: Voyager -- Elite Force is a first-person shooter video game developed by Raven Software and published by Activision. The game was initially released on September 20, 2000 for Windows and Mac OS personal computers. Aspyr Media was responsible for porting the game to the Mac OS platform. Elite Force was later ported to the PlayStation 2 console by Pipe Dream Interactive and published by Majesco Entertainment on December 11, 2001.
The game is set in the Star Trek universe, specifically relating to the fourth Star Trek television series, Star Trek: Voyager. The dates in the game place Elite Force's plot late in Voyager's sixth season. The player assumes the role of Ensign Alex Munro, a member of the Hazard Team, a new elite security section created to deal with particularly dangerous and hostile away missions. The game's plot focuses on the USS Voyager being trapped in a starship graveyard, heavily damaged and under attack from a variety of hostile factions. The Hazard Team is tasked with protecting Voyager as repairs are made, and investigating the cause of their entrapment.
Elite Force was one of several Star Trek games announced after Activision secured the license to Star Trek video games from Viacom in 1998. The game was one of the first to license id Tech 3, a game engine by id Software used by a number of video games during the early 2000s. Elite Force was a critical success, and is often praised as the first truly successful Star Trek video game, able to appeal to people who were not Star Trek fans. Raven Software released an expansion pack to the game in May 2001, whilst Wildstorm adapted the story for a short graphic novel in July 2000. A sequel developed by Ritual Entertainment, Star Trek: Elite Force II, was published in 2003.

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@613aristocrat 4 года назад

This was such a tight shooter. No bugs that I encountered, and felt like playing through an actual Voyager episode.

@j.a.weishaupt1748 3 года назад

There were plenty of bugs. I’ve killed them all.

@Mannihannibull 10 месяцев назад

I know this an old comment but I felt to point out one bug. Not sure what caused it but the cutscenes broke and munroes torso disappeared and his head and gun were floating on top of his hips. I don't mean there was empty spot where his torso was supposed to be. I mean his head and gun were a few inches away from his groin. The best part was that for the rest of my playthrough it stayed that way and when game play resumed munroes eye level was groin height. Maybe the funniest bug I've ever seen.

@613aristocrat 10 месяцев назад

I've never seen that one. I really hope I get it on my next play through. 😂@@Mannihannibull

@captainofmusic4732 6 лет назад

I remember getting this game on a demo disk when i was very young, i had no idea it was a TV show. Once i stayed up late and then we seen it on TV and me and my brother was like hey it's them people from that game. After that i've been a big ST fan thanks to this game.

@FogHorn1911 7 лет назад

I loved this game, they made a expansion pack for it that was really a love letter to star trek fans, it let you explore the ship, and go to all the locations you would see on the show. Multiplayer was great too, spent hours on Star Trek Role-play servers.

@SantaCruzJokerProductions 3 года назад

Man even Harrison Ford likes this game

@John3_16_ 3 года назад

It’s a few bucks in GOG now.

@Tirpitz7 4 года назад

Gosh I remember all those scenes so clearly. Definitely one of my favorite games. I would love a HD version.

@John3_16_ 3 года назад

PC version from GOG + mods/texture packs

@Cannikin 8 лет назад

I absolutely loved this game. I would love a modern FPS like it.

@Okada_Caelun 4 года назад

I played this game recently, and I do have to mention one complaint I had with the game that wasn't mentioned in the video. While you do get a wide variety of weapons, all your weapons draw off only two ammo pools. The only exception for this is the sidearm phaser, which quickly and indefinately recharges ammo. So if you, for instance, decide to have some fun and spam the game's rocket launcher all over the place, you 're running out of ammo for half your weapons at the same time. I felt this discouraged varied weapon use in favor of finding the most ammo-efficient solution for each ammo pool. The discouragement of weapon selection only gets worse in the Borg levels. While it's nice to see that, like in the show, they adapt to weapons fire and become immune to it, it means that for the entirety of the level you are outright forced to use only a single weapon which was given the special property to bypass the Borg's adaptation. I wouldn't say this is a deal breaker, especially if you do like the setting and show, but it is something that drags down the fun a little.

@Gggmanlives 11 лет назад

yeah the sequels not bad. i'm going to review it soon i think, it is a MUCH longer game though so it might take me a while.

@bytemaniak8328 5 лет назад

i absolutely loved this game on the ps2 despite the long loading times and generally low framerate. i did not have a pc at the time

@unrealdevon 9 лет назад

This game would look alot better if the development didnt start on the q2 engine and then later was pushed over to the q3 one. Still its a pretty cool fps game and i recomend it.

@johnathonhaney8291 8 лет назад

This was actually my first exposure to Voyages and I absolutely loved this game. While just straightforward as the review indicates, it also managed to pull off the impossible: create a fairly kickass game that kept to some of the peace, live and harmony ideals through the story.

@robotcow28 9 лет назад

Man i still have the PS2 version, I remember having a great time with this game.

@sjsharp2007 5 лет назад

Yeah I've still got the PC one but whilst it doesn't have as impressive graphics as some shooters that exist now do I still have fun with it from time to time.

@xcoponent 9 лет назад

I had never played this game. But it's the music! John Williams got my attention with the music! 'Doon-doon, Doon-doon!' Thanks

@ghastlytales 6 лет назад

This is one of the best FPS's I've ever played. As far as making you feel like you're in that world, Elite Force nails it.

@meterano7 4 года назад

Its crazy how good your old videos hold up in production value

@Senior666 4 года назад

I remember a old friend getting this before me but WHAT a game 👌. The Quake 3 Engine served it well.

@mr-dbs 8 месяцев назад

glad I can go back 10 years in time to check if I should try a game I missed out on in my childhood

@AB-xd8hm 10 лет назад

If you like Voyager, this is a must play. If you like Trek in general, this is a must play, since it's easily among top 3 best Star Trek games ever made. If you're a casual fan of Trek, you should still play it, since it doesn't require you to know anything about Voyager before playing it (I didn't when I played it for the first time back in the day, and it was still really fun). If you've never heard of or followed Trek, but like Sci-Fi shooters, you should still play it, since it is a fine SF shooter with a cool story and it may even get you into Star Trek. btw Among many ST and Voyager references and tributes, there's also a little surprise here for all of you fans of the Mirror Universe.

@rogerlynch5279 10 лет назад

I am a big fan of the MIRROR UNIVERSE stories myself but here is a fun fact for TRAKIES. GERMANS generally don´t care for this topic; because of a hidden WW II reference, maybe.

@Tehstroyer 9 лет назад

Rather late, but what are the other 2 top Star Trek games?

@AB-xd8hm 9 лет назад

Tehstroyer That's debatable, so here's one possible answer. A tense FMV adventure game from 1996 called: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Borg While it is a great story-driven little thriller, fans of the Borg and mischievous Q (who gets somewhat serious here) will get the most out of it (since the rest of the famous ST characters don't star here). Too bad one of the shows didn't copy this storyline as well. If you can't find it, or don't want to play it, there are couple of full walkthroughs on RU-vid and they play like an actual 60 min ST movie. Star Trek: Bridge Commander is supposedly the best ST simulator (don't like the space simulator genre, so I can't comment on it any further). There are other decent ST games (several 2D adventures with classic Trek crew and even more strategy games based on other ST series), but these three (Voyager, Borg and Commander) could be considered the top of the crop.

@jerkfacefuckasaurusrex328 4 года назад

I was hopelessly addicted to the multiplayer when I was a kid.

@nicholasbunn4337 9 лет назад

i loved this game when i was a kid

@lurkerrekrul 10 лет назад

I really liked that the Holomatches were easy to set up and the bots actually know how to play Capture the Flag. In Elite Force II, they just run around half the level trying to shoot you with the hand phaser, even if you're on the other side of the level. My one complaint is that Raven often uses cutscenes for things you should be doing yourself. For example in the tutorial mission, did we really need a cutscene to show Munroe shooting the control panel? Or a cutscene showing Tuvok berating us for having done it? Wouldn't it have been much better if the player had arrived at the decision to shoot the panel on their own? Then Tuvok wouldn't be lecturing us for something that we had no control over. Why do the dialog scenes need to be cutscenes rather than letting us experience them in-game? Raven relies on cutscenes far too much.

@rogerlynch5279 10 лет назад

The bots had been quite intelligent. The only CAPTURE THE FLAG game you can play solo

@Cephalopod51 10 лет назад

I absolutely agree with that. Elite Force would have benefited from giving more choice to the player. There are a bunch of moments in the game where your choices do matter. I think they fell back on the cutscenes due to time constraints and budget limitations.

@lurkerrekrul 10 лет назад

Roger Lynch Actually, the bots in Postal II play a decent game of Capture the Flag, although it's called something like Snatch the Babe.

@lurkerrekrul 10 лет назад

Cephalopod51 Most all Raven games have far too many cutscenes. Jedi Academy has one level where the entire first minute of a boss fight is a cutscene! It even has a cutscene to show you jumping through a hole in the wall. You might be thinking that the cutscene covers up the transition to another level, or that something amazing happens as you jump through. Nope, you land in some kind of compactor and have to jump out before you get squashed. Then you can force-jump back out of the hole to the room you were just in.

@tomghzel 4 года назад

I absolutely loved this game as well! Didn't come across repetitive, I recall the holodeck scene too. Felt like quite some variation and the story was solid. Really playing a Start Trek adventure. Multiplayer was cool too!

@ejrobinson 5 лет назад

One of my all-time favourite games - pre Steam account days but I ploughed 1000s of hours into this. The multiplayer was what made this game awesome and endlessly replayable. The community at the time was brilliant, too - countless custom skins and maps. Such a shame that it's not available on Steam.

@galaxymaster 3 года назад

Bought this gem and it’s sequel on GOG and LOVE IT

@derekchauvinistrockwellthe4917 10 лет назад

This game was AWESOME in 2000.

@Duijnkiller 3 года назад

Childhood experience. but i loved the level design with attention to detail of its time.

@kokoloko8423 5 лет назад

Played this as a kid and it really scared me, especially the Borg levels and the fact that they can get immune to your weapons if you spend too much time shooting around in their environment.

@SkrapMetal84 10 лет назад

there was also a 2nd elite force game i owned myself back when Half Life was still one of the main FPS games

@prossnip42 10 лет назад

the 2nd one was awesome as well

@simounobrien9096 2 года назад

Star Trek voyager elite force is a masterpiece

@Gggmanlives 11 лет назад

yeah i have played it but not for years. i don't remember it being that great to be honest.

@HiddenAdept 4 года назад

One Star Trek shooter your missing is "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen". Pretty fun and positive reviews. Though it is from 2000 and abandonware so might be hard to get working on Windows 10.

@Bigoto 11 лет назад

Nice review. I have never heard about this game before, so its nice to know that it exists at least.

@billmcelgunn7819 5 лет назад

2:01 I play this game and I was very young and the section were you teleported to the ship graveyard literally gave me nightmares

@thegeordieangle6507 10 лет назад

Cheers, loved this game and its sequel. It was a massive game during the Trek Gaming Clan Wars of the early 2000's

@nagash303 7 лет назад

Is there an extra dark shader or why are all these videos extra dark??? I remember it colorful and bright. Maybe the open gl don't work with video recording.

@wynfrithnichtwo8423 4 года назад

I miss this game. I got it back in the day for my ps2 around the time of the game’s release. I played it all the time. I was thinking about it the other day, which is why I looked it up. A HD remake needs to be done for this and its sequel.

@John3_16_ 3 года назад

It’s in GOG now. Do that with texture packs /mods

@SpecShadow 9 лет назад

1:08 B-but...Polito is dead!

@Tenem-x 9 лет назад

This game is freaking expensive! And the sequel is even more

@chrispiscopo1152 7 лет назад

Yo, I remember playing this as a kid and I could never remember the name. Always loved the atmosphere and multiplayer with bots, might have to revisit this one.

@TheHoagie13 5 лет назад

Gotta love *6-Of-9* Aw-Yee! ......-da'I mean 7-Of-9! 😅(lulz/oopsie-poopsie!)

@lurkerrekrul 4 года назад

I commented on this six years ago to say that my one complaint was that Raven often uses cutscenes to show your character doing things that you should be doing yourself, like shooting the panel at the end of the tutorial mission. However I do have another complaint, which is a slight spoiler: Your teammates don't actually need you. While they're not as aggressive as you at shooting enemies, they can't die unless it's a scripted event. If you enable invulnerability, you can just sit back and watch as your team slaughters everything in sight. An entire horde of Species 8472? No problem! It'll take a while, but they'll eventually kill them all. I didn't know this during my first playthrough, but knowing it now removes any feeling of concern you might have over the wellbeing of the other crew members. I suppose it makes sense as they all have dedicated voice actors so you can't have them just getting killed off, and people would probably find it annoying if you failed the mission when they died, but even so, it would have added a nice touch of realism to have them actually be at risk.

@mitchell1541 4 года назад

I think youre the most recent comment, know of anyway to find/play this win10?

@lurkerrekrul 4 года назад

@@mitchell1541 I'm sorry, I don't have Win10. Maybe this site will help; www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_Voyager_-_Elite_Force Also, you might want to try this forum; www.vogons.org/ VOGONS stands for Very Old Games On New Systems. They have dedicated sections for helping people get old games running. I hope this helps. :)

@mitchell1541 4 года назад

@lurkerrekrul Thanks man!

@lurkerrekrul 4 года назад

@@mitchell1541 I hope you get it working. :)

@dbstop9194 3 года назад

I just finished this game this week, Bissman died in one of the mission before his real death later, they just beamed him out back to he ship. I quickloaded the game ( I didn´t want any of my teamamtes dead) so I don´t know if it has a any consecuences.

@m9078jk3 8 лет назад

Another thing going for this game is that it supports some vintage 3Dfx graphics cards

@TrailDave 2 года назад

I really loved this game

@mrbungle3310 6 месяцев назад

Crazy this game came out in 2000 looks like some 2004 games and at that time 1 years was a huge difference

@mousiedung 6 лет назад

Hey gggman will you review the Klingon Honor Guard game?

@flashlightfreek Год назад

This game was ahead of its time, just the story and writing is amazing compared to most ganes now a days

@613aristocrat 4 года назад

I should add that the teleporting aliens part felt like a horror movie.

@ateosedm5690 4 года назад

They need to port these to consoles and mobile. I'd play the hell out of these, again.

@stygianphantasm8761 4 года назад

I loved this game. Always wanted to play part 2.

@OrishiBlackMoses 6 лет назад

Nice vid, I was looking to find out hot this looked.

@jobelthirty1294 7 лет назад

If youre a quaker and you know how to strafe jump, you can do that in this game. Just like doom 3. Makes it a lot more fun.

@somedude1860 3 года назад

This was dead ass my first FPS

@christpunchers 10 лет назад

Do you use any post-processing in your videos? All your ingame footage from every video is very sharp.

@Gggmanlives 10 лет назад

christpunchers No, I just capture all of my footage uncompressed and export it after editing at the highest possible quality. RU-vid has a terrible compression system for video files.

@613aristocrat 4 года назад

This was awesome just for the mode that let you explore Voyager in free mode.

@jaxonradcliffe1573 4 года назад

It was such a good game! i just wished more people knew its existence.

@OrishiBlackMoses 6 лет назад

You should try out Star Trek Online if you haven't already. In the Delta Quadrant expansion you play with Tim Russ and Jerry Ryan amount others.

@unrealdevon 11 лет назад

The game started its development on the q2 engine an was later moved to the q3 one. That is why it looks more like it does.

@eisenhornoverlip4724 10 лет назад

GGGMANLIVES to give yet another great review

@teammartin95 8 лет назад

Ah, the FPS of my childhood. Which isn't saying much.

@Moonstalker 7 лет назад

I think the game is excellent and aged pretty well aside of the graphics which are much better in the sequel. The AI is pretty good and it managed to get a quite good squad based single player adventure. I also find the level design is more inventive than in the sequel. I love the sequel, but this one have less inspired weapon design and only two ammo types (which isn't the case of the multiplayer) The main problem of the two ammo types is that it renders the weaker weapons, not very useful in the end of the game. I also didn't liked much the weapon design in the gameplay department. Otherwise I kind of liked the enemies and the whole good representation of star trek. I think it's a very good game, that I enjoy playing from time to time.

@mrsquishyboots 7 лет назад

this needs to be remade with a modern quake engine.

@Winnerwinnerchickendinner88 9 лет назад

What about the second one?

@hughbetcha436 6 лет назад

You seem more mellow back when you did this review. Have you grown cynical?

@raymxslappedyall3660 4 года назад

why's gman sounds so different here?

@Julian_Pepper 4 года назад

This game is a nice refresher from a lot of the worse Star Trek games out there, It really good, even without the Star Trek name

@unstablerupture6983 4 года назад

Man this game was awesome

@NowhereNarrative 7 лет назад

I always feel like the enemies are way too bullet spongy in this.

@rogerlynch5279 10 лет назад

Yes STAR TREK never dies!, the titel of DAVID GERROLDs book THE WORLD OF STAR TREK. THE SHOW THE NETWORK COULD NOT KILL! from1973 still stands as a statement. He also has written another book called: THE STORY BEHIND A STAR TREK SHOW! " THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES" THE BIRTH, SALE AND FINAL PRODUCTION OF ONE EPISODE. 1973; both of BALLANTINE BOOKS. I am shure there will be sooner or later a new series about a Young Crew like in the last movies on the long run. Maybe even one or two games but this time not by RAVEN SOFTWARE anymore. I never understood why RAVEN had been accused to be a traitor to the STAR TREK concept. When you look at the episodes of the classic series from the Sixties and the Next Gen., even VOYAGER, there were trouly wild episodes among them in the show concepts.

@danielwilliamson6180 Год назад

2009 Star Trek is one of my favourite movies. I've never played Elite Force and it looks like a good game.

@lukedukey 4 года назад

curious why this isn't on anyone's hidden gems list (that I have seen)

@Javasboi 6 лет назад

This game was amazing! I also loved the sequel but couldnt progress due to a bug which I couldnt find a fix around :/

@John3_16_ 3 года назад

Try now, you can get them both in GOG cheap.

@longdong1622 7 лет назад

Do the game empire series .

@pferreira1983 6 лет назад

All his complaints about the game I actually enjoyed.

@Subhuman_Gamer 2 года назад

One of my favorite games on ps2 never played the 2nd. Love startrek and this game.

@marscaleb 5 лет назад

I wonder what someone would think of this game if they had no familiarity with Star Trek when they played it.

@noblealfred5010 8 лет назад

How the heck do you get this game to run. I can't install it, says unsupported OS. Dammit. Do I have to dual boot for this one game!

@wepramefen1260 7 лет назад

I think there's a pacth.

@Wadser 4 года назад

Dunno why, but this game gave me really bad motion sickness. I could only play it for 30 minutes before it got too much.

@UniteTheClans 9 лет назад

Nice review ;)

@SantaCruzJokerProductions 3 года назад

Even in low polygon, seven of nine is the hottest woman ever

@dudds6699 11 лет назад

k well i wanna do a daikatana review on PC cause every one online does it for N64 :-(

@drunkenrobot3383 3 года назад

Finally on GOG, lets fucking gooooooo!!!

@loganjorgensen 8 лет назад

Definitely a short campaign, didn't have a connection for multiplayer so I ended up trading it in one week later for Diablo2 which had better single player value.

@mercinicus2429 8 лет назад

NELSON'S DOWN

@melaniejonas7084 7 лет назад

Mercinicus 2 😂😂😂

@buzzfunk 4 года назад

We need less military shooters today and more scifi. I still cannot believe no one has done a new ST game. FPS or simulation....

@linogomes7416 6 лет назад

Hm... interesting physics

@hadogaming3114 5 лет назад

Maravilloso juego, merece un remake

@homermoses6 3 года назад

I know it's old but, gotta not give spoilers if you're gonna call it a review.

@nicolaywoods3578 4 года назад

Now in cartoon flavor

@Halbi1987 9 лет назад

Lol you completely failed to understand the came. You can nearly avoid all violence in the game. It is harder but your team mates survive.

@Gggmanlives 9 лет назад

Julian Hans Halbeisen Wtf are you on about?

@Halbi1987 9 лет назад

Gggmanlives If you avoid violence more characters in the game survive.

@Gggmanlives 9 лет назад

Julian Hans Halbeisen You can't avoid any violence in this game. Are you confused or something?

@Halbi1987 9 лет назад

Well I avoided violence when I played that game. And the missions had different endings. I also saw a video on you tube where even more violence was avoided. And the game was even better. I realized that there were even better solutions than my solution. Look for walk through videos.

@markbergin3214 9 лет назад

+Julian Hans Halbeisen Possibly the borg and Klingon levels (from what I remember) but that only accounts for a third of the game max. There's no way you can avoid close to 30% of enemies however.

@FlamingGnats 6 лет назад

I don't suppose you remember what you did to install the game on a modern system? I can't seem to get it to work.

@Gggmanlives 6 лет назад

I can't remember sadly, sorry.

@Kaden10 4 месяца назад

#NightDive if you're reading this get this game to modern consoles ASAP.

@Morningstar91939 3 года назад

Now it’s on GOG at last along with its sequel. It took years, but we finally got it.

@wepramefen1260 7 лет назад

Omg I love star trek!

@SEVENTHSIGHN 11 лет назад

So basically you play as a red shirt. The game should have been called Star Trek red shirts revenge!

@josevalero3543 3 года назад

I loved this game, now today this one its sequel are finally available at GOG!!

@evanderthegothevanderthego8050 Год назад

re do this review plz

@skyborne80 Год назад

If I had to describe this game with one word, it would be "competent." Both as a shooter and a _Star Trek_ game.

@rilluma 6 лет назад

this is awesome game

@warmecanic 6 лет назад

Goddam, this game and Star wars Jedi Academy were the shit, well, still the shit. So much better than today´s games.

@elbarto6668 2 года назад

Is now on gog

@rdragon0bdragon127 2 года назад

😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠

@prulcan Год назад

i was really happy when this game came out for PS2... man.. i was really hoping for the best.. but nope... game is terrible on PS2.. choppy as hell and ugly with Q3 engine.. i have return to castle wolfenstein an Q3 for PS2, and those two are running flawlessly . but this game is pure garbage on console. can't run full screen on win10, but least i can play it once again...