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By: c.p. (Odo's file, contact) @ 09:00:24 on Feb 01, 2008

This movie is the perfect opportunity for someone to treat Star Trek games seriously and do it right. Maybe these guys should bow out and let someone else have the license.

Does anyone know if J.J.'s deal includes royalties from games, action figures, memorabilia, etc? If so, that might be an extra incentive for him to have a hand in peripheral products to the movie itself. Could only help.

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By: Cymro (Odo's file, contact) @ 06:30:38 on Feb 01, 2008

Legacy was one of the worst games I've ever played. If the sales of the game were poor (which is why I'm assuming they don't want the license), it's because it was universally panned by critics and fans for being terrible. The controls were shit, the gameplay was shit, the graphics were very shit considering the spec needed to play it, the story was shit, and I can't think of a single game element that wasn't buggy.

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Trek Games Suck anyways! | Report this post to moderator
By: ericerickson592 (Odo's file, contact) @ 21:34:41 on Jan 31, 2008

No big loss... most star trek games suck anyways. Except for a couple, klingon academy, elite force series, bridge commander, armada, and legacy. Otherwise most of the others really were not that good.

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Sex, Chocolate, and Video Games ... | Report this post to moderator
By: TRexx (Odo's file, contact) @ 20:23:46 on Jan 31, 2008 | (1)

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By: TRexx (Odo's file, contact) @ 17:34:49 on Jan 31, 2008

Quote from FiringSquad:
Bethesda Softworks, the current owner of the video-PC game rights to the Star Trek franchise, will not be publishing a game based on the upcoming J.J. Abrams directed Star Trek movie


Who knows, the project could go to Ubisoft, which is developing Abrams' LOST video game (and have published Star Trek titles with Bethesda).


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By: Merlinus Ambrosius (Odo's file, contact) @ 17:25:06 on Jan 31, 2008

Movie tie in games almost always suck.

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By: Gprime85 (Odo's file, contact) @ 16:35:24 on Jan 31, 2008

their trek games sucked anyways. they made it sound like theyd be the saving grace for video games in the 24th century.

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By: OV-101 (Odo's file, contact) @ 16:16:20 on Jan 31, 2008

SON OF A BITCH!!!!!!!

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Bummer | Report this post to moderator
By: prometheus 59650 (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 14:03:50 on Jan 31, 2008

Now that the Trek MMORPG is all but officially dead, there's nothing.

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By: GustavoLeao (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 13:34:02 on Jan 31, 2008

I think the last Star Trek movie to have a game adaptation was Insurrection, right ? Titled Hidden Evil or something like that.



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Thank god. | Report this post to moderator
By: DevlinC (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:13:52 on Jan 31, 2008

This company may have made some improvements to the Trek gaming genre, but just like Activision before them they managed maybe one good idea and then the whole thing stalled.

Legacy was alright - with a few more months in development and a bit more effort put in with the storyline it could have been outstanding but even as it was, the bugs were massive. The PC version was almost unplayable apparently, and the 360 version had a few notable problems too. I wouldn't want the new Trek movie to have such a lackluster company running the game department.

The bizarre thing from this article is how they're trying to blame Trek for their own inability to design a good game. TBD? Yeah, by Paramount fools.

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Not surprising. | Report this post to moderator
By: critch (Odo's file, contact) @ 12:57:51 on Jan 31, 2008

I'm pretty sure they're going to see if the movie takes off or not, and if it doesn't, they're going to dump the franchise. Legacy was good but ignored, and their DS/PSP/PS2 game wasn't even blip on the radar.

Word is that the City of Heroes company picked up the MMO rights, but I'll bet they'll do the same thing, sit on it until they see a market.

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