Star Trek: Starfleet Command - PC

Starfleet Command (SFC) is an incredibly deep starship combat game-if you can call it a game. I think of it as more of a simulator, it's so complex. Star Trek nerds will love the many references to Star Trek's realistic technology and those technologies' application to galactic warfare. So I would recommend this game to Star Trek or science fans who like highly technical gameplay...like me! But most games these days are shallow, so new talent beware-this is a SIMULATOR, not a game. Space, the final frontier...

Played this game 25+ years back. I found it to be too difficult to hit targets and was cumbersome.

For the record, this used to be one of my favorite PC games of all-time. Lost it for years, and bought it again here on Amazon out of a sense of nostalgia. Went to play it on my Windows 8.1 machine. NO DICE. Get an error about a DLL missing no matter what I do. Took it over to my Windows 7 machine, and it worked. The graphics are a little "off" in that the edges are cut-off a bit, but no big deal. Plays like old times, and I'm running through the missions again, but this time without the ridiculously-long load times I recall from my old Pentium 5 machine! :-) SSD and i7 CPUs make this program fly between loading screens, but the action sequences are timed correctly so the game doesn't "fast-forward" requiring you to load a clock-slowing utility to play it.

OK, if you never played the SFB board game, you might find this game to be just fine, and it is better than the average sorry#$@ Star Trek title. This was marketed for the SFB audience, however, and here the game is a big disappointment. The worst is multiship control. Your wingmen AI is poor to non-existent. Individual ship control is good to excellent, albeit a bit cumbersome. But it is impossible to control 3 ships at once in the heat of battle and the interface and AI make the simplest commmands to squadron members ineffectual at best. You literally cannot even have your wingmen attack one target while you combat another.The mission briefings are hopelessly inadequate and you will have to buy the aftermarket strategy guide to have any clue as to what you are expected to do. There does not seem to be much connection between your battlefield success and the campaign game.The fact that they redid most of the ship visuals is nitpicking after these more serious flaws, but if you are an SFB fan you expect double saucer hulled Gorns with orange triangle insignia and catamaran and trimaran Lyran hulls that don't look like 23rd century vacuum cleaners. And the Hydrans were just completely redone with no similarity to the original.Despite this, the ship to ship combat works well, and the graphics are marvelous. Even the cloaking device is handled correctly, although this would have been easy to botch up. This product needs a sequel that gets the other parts right.P.S. Forget playing for the Federation in this game, since the combat algorithm makes photon toredoes miss about 75% of the time.

i love it as a star trek fan i'm have great time with it at dose take a little time to get the hang of the game.

My son wanted this as a gift for Christmas. He was very happy when he opened it on Christmas. Thanks.

For those of you addicted to the star fleet battles board game, this interplay game automates all of the "bookkeeping" and provides a nice UI, you can play a computer, or your friends. One unhappy note is that it only runs on WinXP (ideally sp3). As I have Win 8.1 I had to build a WinXP VM and play in that. Also you may have trouble if MSS32.dll is missing from your system. I was able to find the DLL and drop it into the game folder, after that it played fine.

I was VERY surprised on the quality of the package and game. I was only expecting the game disk but I got the complete game in its box like it came off the shelf in the store so many years ago. Thank you!

Bought for the boyfriend and it worked fine for the first few times but then he was not able to use the "Skirmish". Only button light up was for multiplayer. We've tried everything, looked online for help but nothing has seemed to work. He first had it loaded on Vista then he had to upgrade computer (work reasons) and now has Windows 7. It stopped working on Vista and refuses to work on 7. We'll have to buy a new version so as for it play on Windows7. Too bad the first version is available on a more compatiable version.