Star Trek Online

The blessing and the curse of this game is that Star Trek, the series about travelling through space and making first contact with new forms of life, doesn’t cram easily into the template of a normal MMO. Star Trek is not about independent heroes, it’s about close-knit crews with five main characters. It’s not about shooting things in spaceships or exploring on the ground: it’s about both. » Read Full Star Trek Online preview

Amidst the blaring siren of a new Star Wars MMO (The Old Republic), you could be forgiven for overlooking the emergence of the first details of Star Trek Online. Cryptic Studios, of City of Heroes fame, helm this highly anticipated stellar venture, which means that at the very least we’ll be able to fiddle with a Play-Doh Klingon’s face until it looks just the way we want it. » Read Full Star Trek Online preview

The franchise may be (ahem) a logical choice for the massively-multiplayer treatment, yet the makers of Star Trek: Online have so far avoided the interminable hype machine - perhaps aware of how bluff and bluster can only end in disappointment (e.g. Star Wars: Galaxies). Still, the fabric for a fulfilling Starfleet jaunt is certainly here: nine playable races, all manner of starships and stations, crew-based ship-on-ship combat and many, many planets for you to beam down onto for tricordering » Read Full Star Trek Online preview