Holy Bird Droppings Batman! A Star Trek game that doesn't totally stink!
User Rating: 7.3 | Star Trek: Tactical Assault DS
It's been a long hard run for Star Trek games on consoles (and there are very few on PC that are excellent either) but it looks like Bethesda is trying to change that, slowly but surely. Tactical Assualt takes place during the Original Series of Star Trek, although you wouldn't be able to tell that because there are little mention of previous characters, and many of these ships didn't show up in the Original Series or Movies. The story line is ok, you're a new Captain trying to make a good name for your self. You have crew members that you can upgrade to make your ship better and along the way you'll get new ships and eventually unlock several modes. The graphics look pretty good on the DS, they are on par with many of the N64 space sim titles (such as Rogue Squadron). They could use a little bit of a nip and tuck here but all in all it's in good shape. The controls aren't very new. Like many of the games for DS the control scheme doesn't capitallize on the touch screen function and everything can be done with the buttons too. It does make use of the two screens, but much like every other game out for DS, it's a menu screen and doesn't really assist that much with functionality. Unfortunatly there is very little Star Trek theme music in this game, but William Shatner does do a monolog in the begining. The sounds are pretty authentic and it does make you feel like your in the Star Trek universe. The levels are pretty basic as well as the game play. Don't get destroyed, angle your ship's strongest sheild toward your enemy and then fire. Rinse, dry and repeat. The difficult level does spike after a while so you can get some replay out of it, and the multi player is pretty fun too. All and all it's one of the better outings for Star Trek and I personally hope there is more to come. Hopfully it's popularity will pick up again and we'll get a good TV series out of it. 
