Star Trek D-A-C Boldly Goes Official
Paramount Digital Entertainment officially announced Star Trek D-A-C for the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade, and PC today, delivering new screenshots of the movie-themed space shooter to the masses.
The official announcement for Star Trek D-A-C doesn’t really offering anything new in the way of game information. From McWhertor’s report at GDC we learned that it was a top-down shooter with a strong emphasis on online multiplayer, with single player, online co-op, and online competitive modes. We also knew it was coming in May, though now we know that the Xbox 360 version drops that month, with the PlayStation Network and PC versions coming soon after.
That leaves these new screenshots, though looking through them we managed to find at least two we’ve already seen. It’s just one of the perils of working with a 43-year-old science fiction franchise. It’s all been done before.
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looks cool... i guess.
looks cool... i guess.
they are smart to put in the pc. space games thrive on the pc.when was the last time you seen any type of spce game on consoles these days?
QuennaKolkata
they are smart to put in the pc. space games thrive on the pc.when was the last time you seen any type of spce game on consoles these days?
QuennaKolkata
Shooter as in you control your ship and it's twitch-based?
Shooter as in you control your ship and it's twitch-based?
Uhh... that screenshot looks like ass, man. It looks like a game for a cel phone.
@QuennaKolkata: Super Stardust HD and trust me is awesome.
If the combat is Star Control-ish I'll give it a shot.
KaneRobot
@killah101:
Makes you kind of wish that Bioware made a Star Trek game around Mass Effect.
this looks CRAP CRAP CRP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP
@killah101: They have that too, it's called Mass Effect
ps360blows
@killah101: Sounds like "Star Trek: Bridge Commander" on the PC. Never played it, but I hear it was pretty good.
BritBloke916
Can the enterprise actually fire fast enough to qualify for a shooter game?
Shit must be going off down in the engine reactor room.
@QuennaKolkata: every space shooter from the last 2 decades would like a word with you. :)
Anyone remember NetTrek?
This looks like that, but with pretty wallpaper.
I wish they would stop making Star Trek games where you have combat with the actual ships. Make one where you are inside the ship, and can walk around, give orders, etc. Travel to planets and shizz.
killah101
Oddly reminds me of that Dreamcast game, Armada, kinda.
What is not awesome, is this game looks like a reskinned Nova Strike, which wasn't a lot of fun. Unless it's a shmup, space fighter games NEED to be in 3D. And have a mouse and keyboard.
@killah101: You are thinking about a game like Star Trek:Elite Force I,II. They were good games from Raven Software.
@QuennaKolkata: Geometry Wars!
NoHoldsBarred
a remake/revamp of star trek: starfleet command would be just about awesome...
@BritBloke916:
Uuhhh... not exactly. You could give orders on the bridge and have the PC play, essentially, against itself, or you could command the ship from outside, third-person.
But you coudl'nt wander around the ship and visit different sections or anything and there was no away team or anything, as far as I remember.
The closest thing they came to insofar as what you're describing was a Star Trek computer game they made back in the days of the 3/486 and featured the cast from TOS. They haven't done anything that complex since then, and that was something like 15 or 16 years ago.
@SeraphX2: "From McWhertor's report at GDC we learned that it was a top-down shooter with a strong emphasis on online multiplayer"
[ZTF]Should I import BlazBlue?
I wish we'd get a sequel to Star Trek Legacy
@jackal888:
Yah, but those were just shooters with a Star Trek skin on them. You seem to only be able to get two kinds of Trek games, the ship-to-ship combat based games, or the straight-up shooters.
Killah's voiced my exact problem with Star Trek, which is by far the most maligned franchise in gaming history. None of the Star Trek games released in the last 10 years actually follow through on what Star Trek is supposed to be about; the crew, their relationships with each other, exploration, moral dilemmas and adaptation.
@NoHoldsBarred: sorry burst your bobble but console space games which rare these days are junk!!
geometry wars is not a space game sorry!
if you want a space game you only find on the pc be it a sim or arcade style space game!
QuennaKolkata
@Werrick: Star Trek: 25th Anniversary - still the best in my eyes. Combined spaceship dogfighter and point-and-click adventure.
Chadders
@zanzibarlegend: oh really here is pc gaming line up for recent space games show me a line up of space for consoles
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can't find star battle chronicles or I would link a tube video too!
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QuennaKolkata
@Slust: Mouse and keyboard? Really?
The last 3D space fighter I played with a mouse and keyboard was TIE Fighter. God, was that ever a lot of scrolling.
Seriously, it's joystick or bust. But in a pinch, I'd much rather have thumbsticks than a mouse/keyboard setup.
@QuennaKolkata: You are lumping every genre imaginable under the umbrella "space game". RTS, MMO, 1st/3rd person "space-sim" sort of games.. those are all genres that are strongly pc-centric.
This Star Trek game is strongly in the vein of other top-down shmups - a largely (though not exclusively) console-centric genre.
Hell the *producer* even compared this game to Geometry Wars!
niledeltadisco
Is it actually in the rule book that every article about something even vaguely Star Trek related has to has to incorporate 'boldly go' in some form?
woons
@QuennaKolkata: oh i forgot one more space game only for pc line up
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QuennaKolkata
@BallPtPenTheif: Scotty to Bridge! She canna take much more of this Captain!
@niledeltadisco: these are space games coming to the pc this year!!!!!
yea I forgot to say pc gaming also has space mmos and rts too what does console have to foffer agin?
QuennaKolkata
@QuennaKolkata:
Now show me one that isn't shit.
Star Trek: Dark Age of Camelot?
@QuennaKolkata: If you include top-down space shooters (such as what this game looks to be) then Ikaruga wants to say "hi". If you mean a space sims... then even the PC has been really lacking...
I miss Freespace, Wing Commander, X-Wing vs TIE.... why dosn't anyone make quality sims anymore...
xcalibr
@QuennaKolkata: So I'm waiting for a console line up of psace games oh wait they don't have much!!!I wonder why? because console gaming sucks!! when comes to space games. "Real gamers" play real games on the best machine for gaming that is the pc!!!
QuennaKolkata
@Mromson: wow some of these games have not yet to be released eve online,siss of the solar empire,x3 are huge pc games with a huge fan base!!!
QuennaKolkata
@xcalibr: I miss Freespace, Wing Commander, X-Wing vs TIE.... why dosn't anyone make quality sims anymore...
I have a theory that people got used to competitive play in FPSs, where you can spin on a dime and instantly target with a mouse.
After that, having to spin your ship around to target something must seem slow and awkward.
Personally, I would buy a new Wing Commander in a heartbeat with or without Mark Hamill.
@QuennaKolkata: here is a list of just some of the games coming to the pc
[adrianwerner.wordpress.com]
QuennaKolkata
@xcalibr: there is a wing commader game being made for the pc
QuennaKolkata
D-A-C? What does that even stand for?
CHW
@QuennaKolkata: ""Real gamers" play real games on the best machine for gaming that is the pc!!!"
worsethannormal
@worsethannormal:dam rights!!! real gamer splay real games on real machines that is the pc!!!
here is why
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how about a little back history!!!
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QuennaKolkata
@xcalibr: Freespace 3 really really really needs to happen. That and NOLF 3 would be the 2 games that would make me way too excited.
jdickson87
@Slust: Shut up and play Escape Velocity, then come back and repeat what you just said!
@Slust: Shut up and play Escape Velocity, then come back and repeat what you just said!
I don't have anything to say about the game. But I have to comment on the Trek Yourself add that is on the kotaku page. It's freaking me out!!!
Thai Tea
@QuennaKolkata: PC TROLL is troll
akiratech
They're making a David Allan Coe-themed Star Trek game? That's as strange as it is awesome. Captain Coe to the rescue!
kidjesus
in case anyone didn't get enough shitty pseudo-3D space shooting from the BSG tie-in arcade game
@akiratech: truth hurts huh I think your the troll unless you have some hard "real facts"!
by the way name calling is childish!
QuennaKolkata
you will never ever see something this cool on a console never why consoles can't handle it!!!!!
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ou will never ever see something this cool on a console never why consoles can't handle it!!!!@QuennaKolkata:
you will never ever see something this cool on a console never why consoles can't handle it!!!!!
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QuennaKolkata
@DarkLinkinfinite: LOVED the game even if the online was complete sh!t due to laaaaaag.
@QuennaKolkata: You enjoy talking to yourself don't you? How about you show us PC space games that don't suck? Since apparently your infinite knowledge has told you none are good on consoles.
Isn't the next warhawk supposed to be in space?
@DrunkRaba: oh wait I forgt you can't play space game on consoles, they would majorly watered down or turn into some sort of garbage game.
might want to talk about games you have played instead of games you can only see on a video.
QuennaKolkata
@DrunkRaba: lol well looks like I am talking to you because you answered it! no consoles suck get a real gaming machine next time.
what a joke!
QuennaKolkata
How about something like KotOR or Mass Effect instead? Is that too much to ask? Apparently.
This reminds me of the Battlestar Galactica game on XBLA. And that's a bad thign.
WatershipDown
@Good news everyone! I have terrible news!: Oh man, 'Final Unity'! That game was freakin awesome, played the hell out of it.
@QuennaKolkata: Your video doesn't work.
WatershipDown
@Bogart Shwadchuck: Amen to that - this looks terrible
jarowdowsky
Why the fuck are there flames coming out of the warp nacelles? (And for the love of peanut butter, please don't tell me that's movie accurate...)
@QuennaKolkata: Did you really just say that somebody else was behaving childishly?
Pot,
Kettle,
Black.
captainapplesauce
@WatershipDown: It does reposition the page though in an ever-so... "CLICK ME AGAIN!!.. AND AGAIN!!" fashion.
@WatershipDown: It does reposition the page though in an ever-so... "CLICK ME AGAIN!!.. AND AGAIN!!" fashion.
@DarkLinkinfinite: Yeah... it needed some serious tweeking that never materialized though. Too bad. So close.
@WatershipDown: It does reposition the page though in an ever-so... "CLICK ME AGAIN!!.. AND AGAIN!!" fashion.
@DarkLinkinfinite: Yeah... it needed some serious tweeking that never materialized though. Too bad. So close.
@KaneRobot: no doubt - doesn't initially appear to have the variety though (from these screen shots). However, an "online, massive" multiplayer Star Control type game does sound mega hawt.
@QuennaKolkata: No consoles suck? Well alrighty then. (?)
@KaneRobot: no doubt - doesn't initially appear to have the variety though (from these screen shots). However, an "online, massive" multiplayer Star Control type game does sound mega hawt.
Stupid question: will there be a monthly fee?
whiteflea
I sincerely hope this is like armada for DC/PC.
Michael Berman