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I completed it about a month ago then un-installed it :)
Fun while it lasts, but no replay value. Some good ideas thrown in (the stealth mission where you get genetically altered to look like a romulan is great) but ultimately its very shallow I did find it a little boring in parts, especially between missions on the enterprise. Graphics/maps/enemies are all reasonably good but its missing something that would make it a keeper... thought so, just making sure though.
daz, IMHO 'reasonably good' is a bit harsh on graphics and maps, I thought it was stunning considering it's the q3 engine and how well it runs. and yeah, the between missions crap should have been trimmed more. Its well worth getting a gamecube just to play Zelda... if you have other games you want on that console, go for it. The price is pretty decent at the moment.
just finished it today shambler.
On the whole, I'd go for it especially if you have a system that's medium spec. It looks beautiful on my p3-733 +gf2 combo so I can only imagine what it would look like on something slightly better. Easily the best looking q3 engine game. The last few missions (klingon, romulan and attriscan) I played today continued the excellent level design and I'm with Daz on the Romulan mission, that was fantastic in both design and gameplay. I swear Rorshach's Vendetta textures wouldnt look out of place in some of these missions. Gameplay wise, it's nothing spectacular but it does its job and keeps things varied enough. It's a very solid FPS IMHO, with just the in between mission stuff being very tedious and unnecessary. Luckily, you can skip most of the cutscenes if you want but it can still get annoying. Comparatively, it's much better than the first one so if you like that, definitely pick this up. PQ kicked poor ol' Bal off! But never fear, Scampie was there to catch the young lad and help him back onto his feet at http://bal.spawnpoint.org !
I'm considering buying a GameCube. I don't want to spend money on an XBox because there's still nothing on there that interests me. Maybe when Dino Crisis 3 and some others come out...
In the mean time, my PS2 has served me well enough. ditto what Nitin said, except for the inbetween levels and cutscenes...
really, you have to be sort of into star trek to really like them. i liked the star trek movie First Contact, so it was kinda fun going around in the ship itself... but near the end it was annoying because i really wanted to get back into the action. also, awesome textures, but sometimes there are textures that are of lower quality (ie: almost all of them are scaled 0.5 but you'll see a 1 scale texture somewhere and it really sticks out) and that industrial mission got annoying at the end... and personally, i think my favourite level is the very first one on the enterprise, the one where you explore the busted ship. that was so fun and reminded me a lot of avp2 (especially when the aliens started bleeding yellow goo! i swear, i kept jumping over the yellow splats.) while we're on EF2, anyone know and resources for level editing? i really want to try that one out... looks like it's my lucky day... they've just release a devkit for ef2!
UberRadient ?!?! 0_o which one was the industrial one you got annoyed at? The one mission that sort of got me frustrated a bit was on the enterprise when the warp core was overheating.
As for the cutscenes/story, they were fine at the start but the whole love triangle thing was unnecessary. forgot the warpcore part. That was REALLY annoying, because i kept shooting the engine accidentally or i'd actually get to the part where you had to fix it and i wouldn't have any time to do it...
stupid engineer: "Warp core overheating!" >:| it took me quite a few tries to do that part. the industrial map i'm talking about is the one of the idryll plant that's making the monsters... there were all these jumping puzzles and i got lost in there too... oh and one more thing. i hated how the ai partners kept leaving me to do something alone. i think even the klingon made ajoke about it, so i guess ritual realised how stupid it was... but in a way, i'm glad the ai stayed away from me for the most part, because they are not very bright... As for the cutscenes/story, they were fine at the start but the whole love triangle thing was unnecessary. yes. especially since it hardly influences anything except to get kissed by one of them. if it had actually affected the levels or something, that would have been much cooler. but i liked the cutscenes of the ship. they were really cool. also, the map after the one from the derelict ship was really awesome, because when you start, you can look out the hangar and see the whole station and it looks amazing. yeah that was a bit annoying too I suppose, but as far as commercial game jump puzzle maps go, it was actually reasonable.
it hardly influences anything except to get kissed by one of them.
You are underestimating how it 'influences' sales of the game amongst hormonal teenage boys :/ More of a mapper than you'll ever think of being GrindSpire. Now kindly crawl back into your hole.
our next speedmapping session will take place soon!
The time 10pm GMT on Friday, 22nd August that corresponds to 11pm UK time, or 6pm EST Date differs from normal because me and Scampie are both away over the weekend The place on IRC, in #speedq1 on gamesnet.net The plan Make a map in 100 minutes or less. The suggested theme was thought up by Shambler, namely a terrain map with ancient/medieval setting, e.g. 'Swamp'. You can use any textures you want, and your map can be SP or DM. You don't have to follow the theme but it's more fun when you do :). I hope to see you there, it'll be fun! Okay, so someone recorded a Quake demo for me, but died on the map and then restarted the map, all in the same demo. After he dies, Quake just prints the rest of the events in the console, and then starts the next demo in its loop (demo2.dem).
Does anyone know how to fix this? Or can you point me to where I might find out?
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