Star Trek: Resurgence

[Andrew NDB]

So this game just came out. Grabbed the PS4 version (there is no PS5 version).



It's not bad. It feels like Trek, though they clearly didn't have enough money to license any Trek music. I can kiiiind of see where the story is going and you'll have to deal with a mutiny, I think. The interface is friendly enough but a little bit too dumbed down. A lot of the time the challenge is just pressing two different buttons at the same time to solve the "puzzles" that are more like exercises. Push the lever right, push the lever up, bring the crosshairs over the spot on the panel and press R2, etc..

[IMJ]

So, on one hand this looks like something that was an early PS3 game - I mean Assassin's Creed was one of the PS3 launch titles and it still looks better than that video. But on the other hand, it looks like a fun, interactive Trek movie-level story, even if it is one of those "choose your adventure button-option games".

Trek games are notoriously hard to make. To this day there was one Trek game that I loved, and I still love it - Star Trek: Encounters on the PS2. It's the world's most underrated space shooter. For what it is, it's actually a genius game, I wish everyone would play it. Even the graphics in that one are great because of the nature of the game's design.