Advantages: Intriguing diplomacy features; some nice interaction between the different races Disadvantages: Basic, uninspiring strategy; makes little use of its powerful license; dull combat
We've had a Star Trek game for just about every PC game genre under the sun - and this grand strategy game is one more, which, as Spock might say, was the next logical genre for the franchise to tackle.
MicroProse's Birth of the Federation, like the interstellar alliance it chronicles, has very high ambitions. Set in the "Next Generation" timeline, it tries to be an all-in-one strategic playground for fans of the series. The fact that it treads ... ...After all, we're talking about Star Trek, one of the most consistently creative and enthralling fictional universes of all time. Movies, episodes, and games may hit or miss, but rarely are they boring. Nevertheless, Birth of the Federation takes the most straightforward, uninspired route possible through the genre. And while the game is serviceable from a strategy fan's perspective, it seems a great shame that the designers did almost nothing to ...
SirLink 21.12.2003
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Advantages: Excellent graphics, good gameplay, brilliant dogfights Disadvantages: Unoriginal soundtrack, computer AI gone gaga, needs vast amounts of RAM at times, good processor needed for larger games/fleets
There have been some excellent Star Trek games, and then there have been some that were...well...rather crap. Birth of the Federation is one of the better ones.
Birth of the Federation (BOTF) has been created by the makers of Civilization II, one of my all time favourite strategy games, and is based on the same concept. You are given a map and a population. Your goal is to expand and thrive in the computer generated galaxy set out for you.
Installation ... ...your ships to explore distant star systems. If you find one that think would be benificial to your civilization, send a colony ship to terraform and colonize it.
Look after each of your star systems individually, keeping the people employed, and building new structure to strengthen industrial and economic output. Make sure your citizens are mappy, and that they never go hungry.
Build outposts and starbases to defend your borders. Research new technology ...
Tanthalas 03.06.2001
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Advantages: Addictive, challenging gameplay, easy to pick up Disadvantages: Very, very hard!
...last saw an episode of Star Trek, of whatever variety, though I do enjoy the show. But in a way, I think I enjoy this game more, frustrating though it is!
The concept of the game is this: space exploration is just taking off, and you are at the helm of one of Star Trek's famous races in order to make it into a galactic power. You control research and development, the military, diplomacy and espionage. Just about everything, in other words, that ... ...by anyone who's not into Star Trek and its many variations, but I think it would probably appeal to anyone who enjoyed such strategy games as Civilsation, which, come to think of it, is surprisingly similar. It's a fun, challenging game and has enough quirks and details to keep you guessing for some time. As long as you keep those stupid 'random events' turned off… ...
DavidBedford 23.07.2001
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Advantages: Lots of things to do Disadvantages: Coul have some gameplay improvements
...Klingon Empire or the Romulan Star Empire.
Each race has their own unique characteristics, the Federation ships are quite strong and also the Federation citizens like piece and do not like it when you go to war. Klingon ships are strong and the citizens hate it when piece is signed. The Cardassians ships have strong hulls and powerful weapons they also have strong intelligence structures.
The Romulan ships can all cloak which gives them a free ... ...can also construct outposts and star bases to aid your fleet movements as all ships have a range that they can move and the construction of the star bases increase this range to allow more movement into enemy territory This game allows you to conduct research that, when the necessary components are finished, you can build bigger and better ships and buildings. You can also undertake in the art of espionage and sabotage against the other races to ...
robin_best 08.07.2001
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Advantages: Great gameplay, multiplayer mode Disadvantages: Too many bugs, Borg can be annoying in single player
Star Trek : Birth of the Federation is a great strategy game whether you are a Star Trek fan or not. The main objective to the game is to dominate the galaxy, by taking command of one of the 5 major Next Generation races, such as the Ferengi, Klingons, Romulans, Cardassians and of course the Federation itself, all with their own advantages and disadvantages (for example, all Romulan and some Klingon vessels can cloak, Cardassian vessels have the ... ...it's almost paradise for any Star Trek or strategy fan. But with every good game, there comes it's flaws. BOTF is not without exception. The initial release was nigh on unplayable, with mouse lag and various other things spoiling the gaming experience as time went on. A patch was released which fixed a load of these problems, but now there will be no more patches as Microprose refuse to support this game, which is a shame as if it was bug-free, this ...
Karnage 19.07.2000 (18.03.2002)
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Advantages: A great strategy game Disadvantages: none
Star Trek Birth Of The Federation was one of the first star trek games. Unlike most games, this game does not have a story to it. Instead you select what you want each empire's level to be at. Then select what kind of match you want. What size and shape the universe will look like and how many alien species there are. You then select your empire out of:
The United Federation Of Planets
The Klingon Empire
The Romulan Star Empire
The Cardassion ... ...was a new concept for star trek.
Also the game is very addictive and enjoyable which is what a game should be.
Overall i recommend this game to all. A definate 5 star game.
OPERATING SYSTEM
Since this is an old game, it will run best on windows 95/98. But this game does work on windows me/2000/xp. Just note that windows xp may have trouble operating this game since it is an old game. I doubt that the new windows viesta will be able to run this ...
seadevil 10.03.2007
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Advantages: hours of gameplay Disadvantages: not a large selection of ships
Star Trek Birth Of The Federation is a turn based strategy game based in the Star Trek Universe it is set in the Next Generation time with the ships and races coming from that time.
To begin with you have to select your race you can play as Federation, Klingon, Romulan, Ferengi or Cardassian each side has its own advantages over the other with there own collection of ships so plenty of different play options.
You can select different options to ... ...entinites that turn up that need to be destroyed like the gas cloud or even the Bog.
This game has also been heavly modded by fans so plenty more gameplay out there.
Also you do not need to be a star trek fan to enjoy this strategy game ...
sharpe106 17.11.2008
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Advantages: Provides hours of play and never ends (unless you either wipe out everyone else or everyone else wipes out you) Disadvantages: the game occasionally crashes but this isn't a problem as long as you don't mind restarting it as there is an auto-save feature
...The Klingon Empire, The Romulan Star Empire, The Cardassian Union or The Ferengi Alliance. Each race has it's own advantages and disadvantages over the others, for example the Ferengi have a better trading system than the Federation but the Federation have a better arm of research than the Ferengi. Each race also has it's own fleet of assorted ships, most of which are taken from the TV show with one or two exceptions. Over time you can aquire more ... ...by colonizing other worlds, acception new members into your empire or simply by going in and taking over some of the weaker races. The game features a number of these ranging from the Andorians to the Zakdorn, as well as some of the favourites like the Vulcans and the Bajorans. To keep you interested during the 'quiet' times the game may test you with a 'random event'. This can be anything from a comet hitting one of your worlds to a world completely ...
dbertman 20.10.2003
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Star trek birth of the federation is a great game. It is highly addictive and hard. You choose a galactic super power, Cardassians, Federation, Ferengi , Klingons or Romulans. You then must build your space, colonizing planets and building war ships. You can win the games two different ways, you can take over the galaxy by force, or you could take the diplomatic route and sign alliances with all other species. Along with the superpowers, there are ...
Road_dogg 08.10.2000
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Advantages: Excellent ideas, good minor races, good battle handling Disadvantages: too cumbersome, poor AI, too few battles
This game is close to a clasic, but ther are too many things wrong with it. It starts out very well, but you are soon punished for doing well: the more systems you own, the more time goemetrically you spend upkeeping. At least in Civ you could leave a city for quite some time to itself, but here you almost need to check every city each turn for more and more things. Battles are good but too seldom to base a game around. The AI could use a lot of ...
JeffSumm 20.07.2000
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Advantages: GREAT GAMEPLAY Disadvantages: SWITCH RANDOM EVENTS OFF
...WILL ALWAYS COME AND WIPE YOU OUT NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU TRY.I ALSO FOUND PLAYING THE GAME AS THE ROMULAN STAR EMPIRE REASONABLY HARD TOO, INFACT I HAVE FAILED TO WIN USING THE ROMULANS.SO FOR GREAT GAMEPLAY WITH A GGREAT CHALLENGE GO OUT AND BUT IT,ITS BUDGET NOW ANYWAY. ...
biffa70 03.09.2000
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Advantages: erm not sure Disadvantages: everything else
This game is a typical turn based strategy game which we have seen many times before. The graphics in game are poor and the sound is pretty poor too. But there was somthing about this game that kept me playing it, it is quite addictive but has loads of faults. The diplomacy section of the game is more or less completly pointless - all you seem to do is pay civilisations loads of money and then they will be your friends. The research and sabotage ...
northernalex 16.07.2000
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Advantages: Good storyline Disadvantages: Tecnical Issues
...very good addition to the Star Trek line of PC CD Rom games. It involves the player starting out as one of a number of civilisations in the Trek Universe (Federation, Romulan, etc) and building and Empire however they want to, through neogotiations, brutality, bribery, espionage, etc.
As the game progresses time passes, and new technilogical developments become available, so the game is always chaning and evolving, and it's different every time ...
mc7_of_9 07.10.2003
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Advantages: Good plot, good graphics Disadvantages: Slow on a slow computer
Starfleet Academy is a game that makes you a Cadet in the 23rd Century, at Starfleet Academy. You make it to command school, but you have to contend with "missions" outside the standard simulator as well. Not only do you have to save the Federation, prevent war with the Klingons, and do extra helping with programming the simulator, you also have to manage your crew, and graduate as well. Gripping stuff! Although if you're running at minimum spec ...
greglowis 04.07.2000
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