Once you start to build your ship, you will soon see that there isn't much freedom to build a ship. You have a pre-set amount of parts to choose from and that is it.

Then you get to choose your crew, which is fun, because you can choose from many of the established characters.

But once you get to fly your ship, the programs looses all of it's since of awe. It is very boring from this point forward.

Yes, this is yet another collectors item, but nothing more.


Boring but OK   July 19, 2000
 1 out of 2 found this review helpful

Star Trek: Starship Creator is somewhat limited since you really don't have control over everything. You have to make the ship out of pre-selected parts and you really cant customixe the ship. What about the money? I thought that in the Star Trek Universe money didn't exsist and it also limits you abilities. On the inside you can only add systems and you really cant build a cool interior and explore it! You cant even see anything but the hull. I also dont like the limited characters since you cant cross over officers such as putting James Kirk as Captain of Voyager etc... The missions do run on Real time and are very dull and boring since the computer does it all buy it's self. You can speed up the mission by hitting the Accelerate button but that only speeds it up a few seconeds. I would recommend Star Trek Creator: Add On since its a little better but not by much. Also if any of the Star Trek: Starship Creator producers are reading this they need to make a new game that you can design every inch and fill in every crewman, the missions should be made to be like the ones in Star Trek: Armada since you control everything. If your planning to make your own mission and make yourself an officer forget about it. It takes forever to read all of the instructions. If your a full-fledged Trekkie this game is OK but if you've seen about 15 episodes it'll bore you to sleep.


Star Ship Creator   April 1, 2000
 2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Well, first off, I must say I was dissapointed when I got to the "Man your own mission" part. But otherwise, I liked the product. It starts out with a prompt for your name, then you can go from there. You choose a class of starship, then you retro fit it with your choice of nacelles, hulls, and saucer sections. I was slightly dissapointed here, because you only get 3-5 choices with each item. What would be nice, is if you could take parts from other classes of ship, and add them to your ship. For example: a set of Defiant class nacelles, on an Intrepid class ship. But the 3-D view of your ship is incomplete. In several places the hull is discolored, and mishapen. Pity there' s a 12 character name limit. Pity it assigns you a registry #. As for the innards, you must really study the TNG Tech Manual before you can fill up your ship in the Expert mode. I like the fact though, that you can choose whether you want high quality, or discount parts in your ship, and you can forego the holodecks, and luxury quarters, until you get some more credits. As a Star Trek nut, I wish there were some more things you could do with the bowels of the ship. The missions are pathetic. It starts off with exciting music when it automatically throws itself into warp, but after those thirty seconds are up, it's quiet until you get there. Don't run real-time mode unless you have all day to play with your game. What also really stinks, is you can't just minimize the window, and do something else until your mission is complete. And if you do go into "stealth" mode, you can't get back into the game. Good if you want to know more about the insides of a ship, bad if you've seen 10 or fewer ST episodes. My advice, wait until it goes in the sale bins, or check out the sequel coming soon.


Creater game   March 21, 2000
 0 out of 2 found this review helpful

I really didn't like this game very mutch....it was borring and had very poor graphics...