Solid Trek Gaming that feels like a lite version of Starfleet Command.

User Rating: 9.6 | Star Trek: Tactical Assault DS
Star Trek: Tactical Assault is a DS (and Psp) game which is very similar to the PC series of games "Starfleet Command". It features two campaigns of around 14 missions, a Federation and a Klingon. Within the story you play as the Captain but as the story is contained in either in restrictive conversations or in between missions you don't feel like the Captain. For what its worth you actually play as the ship. Using either the touch screen or the D-pad you can manoeuvre the ship and control its speed. Firing is controlled by the B and A buttons (Phasers and Photons respectively) with R being the "Overcharge" option, this uses up emergency power and increases damaged, and finally L controls targeting.
The combat is simplistic, simple head towards your enemy and fire when in range carefullyusing the Overcharge option while also covering your sheild arcs (the shield is split into 4 areas which take damage separately, rotate your ship to stop taking damage there). In single player things are slightly more complicated, in the Federation campaign there is a chance for diplomacy which makes combat more interesting though there is none of this in the Klingon campaign. During single player you are often also charge with defence often which changes combat somewhat. The multiplayer/skirmish mode is simple ship to ship combat, you can make teams but often you are seperated into groups of two (one enemy and one ally) which makes team games only sligtly more interesting than non-team games.
The graphics feel suitably 'Trekky' and are quite good for the system that is on. You are never left wanting more detail. The sound is also quite good, if you are a trekky, it features the appropriate phaser, photons and red alert, among other things, sounds from the TV.
To summarise, it is a Trek game playing like a lite-starfeet command which is great for short burst but wont keep most people glued to there DS for days on end. It is a Solid game.