In co-op, form a crew of four players to serve in the roles of Captain, Helm, Tactical or Engineer. Make strategic decisions and coordinate actions with your crew. Recent Reviews:. All Reviews:. Popular user-defined tags for this product:. Is this game relevant to you? Sign In or Open in Steam. VR Support. Languages :.
English and 2 more. View Points Shop Items 3. Points Shop Items Available. Publisher: Ubisoft. Share Embed. VR Supported. Add to Cart. Bundle info. Add to Account. Add all DLC to Cart. View Community Hub. The game puts you and your friends in the heart of the U. Your mission: explore a largely uncharted sector of space known as The Trench, in hopes of locating a suitable new home world for the decimated Vulcan populace. You can order him to carry out different battle manoeuvres, fire at will, or fire on your command.
Basically, while you sit in your chair at the helm of the bridge, he does all the dirty work, but because he does only what you tell him to do, your actions have a direct bearing on the outcome of the battle. This approach to combat further emphasises how Totally Games wants you to feel you are in control of the ship and its crew, even in battle, rather than. You can zoom in and take control of the ship and its weapons yourself, but chances are your expertise in this area will be somewhat lacking to start with, so you might want to get to know the game very well before proving your ineptitude in battle.
I have to admit, when the game was first demonstrated to me I was a little sceptical as to how engrossing this more casual approach to battle might be. But watching the development team play the game, it became clear that there is a lot to think about in the heat of battle. Knowing which weapons to use and when is paramount, as is timing and choosing which part of the enemy ship to attack. You can give very specific instructions as to exactly where you want your lasers to land on the enemy ship, weakening areas that are vital to its operation.
You also have to keep an eye on all parts of your own ship and order repairs when necessary, transfer energy from strong areas to damaged ones, and manoeuvre the shin such a way that your weak side is not exposed to your enemy when you home in for the kill.
As you ean see, there's a lot going on in the combat scenes, but unlike games such as X-Wing, Bridge Commander is quite slowpaced, and you will have plenty of time to make decisions in battle -you just have to hope are the right ones. It's not entirely dissimilar to submari combat in many respects, with the adversaries playing hide and seek and slowly weakening other's vessels from a distance.
Expect some long battles in this game, particularly at later stages when the enemy ships are bigger and stronger and will take a lot of whittling down. That's not to say that the missions are all about picking on someone you don't like and blowing them up - in fact, most of them are quite the opposite.
One of the missions we saw involved a conflict between the Klingons and the Romulans, both of whom believed they had been double-crossed by the other. In this situation, you don't want to kill either of them, but merely diffuse the situation.
Peaceful negotiations are not an option here, you must play the diplomat by intercepting both ships and making sure they don't destroy each other in battle. This is achieved by ramming the ships and diverting them from their course. So while most of the game is primarily combat, there are missions that involve pure diplomacy, or searching and exploring inside nebulae.
But most of the missions exist to drive along the story, which unfolds as you play the missions. Rather than sit through cut-scenes explaining the story before you jump into the action, the tale develops throd the actions of the races in the game during the missions, thus seamlessly blending the action and storyline anti giving the player a greater sense of immersion. Your actions in the missions also determine how much further you progress in the game.
If you don't get to places on time, achieve certain goals or prevent major conflicts, it's game over. Of course, you will also lose the game if your ship is blown to tiny pieces in battle: death has a habit of hampering further progress in most games and Bridge Commander is true to this tradition.
Gameplay is surprisingly free-flowing compared to the linear nature of most space combat sims, which simply give you one mission to complete after another. There are a number of things you can get on with at any given time.
For example, if your ship is in a bit of a mess you can warp back to base for repairs assuming a your warp engines have not been fried by enemy scum, and b you have time to do it before your next mission is due to begin.
You can also set about your given goals at any time in any order you see fit, again underlying the open-ended structure of the game and giving the player the feeling that he is immersed in a living universe rather than merely churning through one mission after another. You could be forgiven for thinking at this point that the whole game is based on combat. While it's true that Bridge Commander is fundamentally a tactical combat game, there is enough going on between missions to provide a brief but much-needed diversion from all the head-scratching and decision making forced on the player in the combat scenes.
Kvery event that takes place in the gameworld, which may or may not lead to missions, are related to you by the ship's crew, all of whom have unique dialogue for most given situations, and can provide detailed information on where you stand in the great scheme of things if called upon to do so. You will also have lengthy conversations with other races in the game, and you should pay attention to these before deciding whether to take action or assume a more diplomatic role in the proceedings.
All of this serves to set the scene for the missions, perhaps in a much better way than the cut-scenes we are used to seeing before combat in most games of this type. Multiplayer should prove interesting too: you can only take control of the Sovereign or Galaxy ships in the single-player game, but in multiplayer you can take the helm of the ships belonging to other races. It will be interesting to see how players react to a more strategic multiplayer experience than they are probably used to.
Total immersion and strategic and challenging combat are the goals then for the Bridge Commander team, and if Totally Games can pull off its neatest trick to date, there is every possibility we will have a rather engrossing game on our hands, perhaps even a new genre.
Could Bridge Commander possibly a return to strategic thinking after a long stream of mindless blasters? Probably not, but it's certainly a title that we will be following closely throughout its development cycle. Watch this space. Combat may be slower paced in Bridge Commander than in other space combat games, but it is no less spectacular. Big ships mean big battles and, of course, big explosions.
The combat sequences are a joy to watch, with visually stunning scenes such as this one being commonplace. Of course, if you watch the action from this viewpoint you are likely to miss something important happening on the bridge, such as vital bits of your ship falling off at the worst possible moments.
You can't have everything. Note how you are watching the action as opposed to sitting in the thick of it. Bridge Commander is the first space combat game to favour tactical combat over frenetic dog-fighting action, and playing it feels very different from anything that's gone before. This particular scene is perhaps a little laid-back, you can go into full-screen mode to view the action if you wish, but the emphasis in this game is on tactics and if you don't communicate with your crew in the heat of battle you will soon find yourself up a certain creek.
It's difficult at this stage to predict how well this type of combat will work without having played the game ourselves for any great length of time, but in theory the emphasis on strategy should make for a unique playing experience. All will no doubt be revealed when the game rolls In for review. With the Dominion War now over and the Federation's place in the Delta Quadrant firmly established, many of the participants are still licking their wounds while the stability of the region is still questionable.
For Cardassia's part in the war, the Federation and its allies have demanded the Cardassian's disband their fleet and cease production of military weapons but some still fear hidden fleets are being compiled and are insisting on more severe punishments against Cardassia. That's far from the end of the political problems plaguing the region unfortunately as the Klingons, Romulans, and the Federation are still working out the kinks in their new relationships or lack of.
Star Trek Bridge Commander starts with an accident surrounding an area bordering Federation, Romulan, and Cardassian space. This region called the Maelstrom is mainly known for its inhospitable climate and although the borders surrounding it aren't clearly defined, rarely is there a confrontation due to its lack of appeal. With Federation scientists longing to study the phenomena, technology has finally advanced for terraforming to progress and a science station to be placed there.
As first officer on a galaxy class starship, you begin by watching your captain get annihilated as a star goes super nova while he attempts to re-supply the engineers terraforming the planet. As you assume command and clear out before you too are destroyed, others also take notice and wonder, as does the Federation, at the cause of the sudden super nova.
Star Trek Bridge Commander is a flight simulator that attempts to capture the feel of these colossal starships as they engage enemies and fly through space. With most past attempts allowing the ships to feel more like small fighters, Bridge Commander stays true to the Star Trek universe and creates a system that accurately displays the maneuverability and tactical abilities of these giant battleships.
Star Trek has always been different from other sci-fi universes in the fact that these massive starships are the main line of defense. Others like Star Wars and most space simulators use small fighters as their primary weapon of choice, which are highly maneuverable and often extremely deadly. In the past, most Star Trek simulators ended up with colossal starships that flew like small fighters often disregarding the combat style and dependence on tactics that both the movies and television series showed.
Finally however, a game has been created that understands the physics of these massive starships and the movement they would be capable of. Instead of having the maneuverability of an F, they now move more like battleships, where having a battle plan becomes critical and protecting damaged portions of the ship or inflicting damage to specific areas of the enemy's ship become crucial.
It can take one careless turn and the enemy will swing around to a weakened area of your shields and cause a serious amount of damage. May 30 , All Rights Reserved. Ubisoft and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U. Back Arrow Left Black arrow pointing left. Buy Now. Watch Trailer.
Game Overview. New Ongoing Voyages Mode: Patrol Investigate activity throughout the Trench, flying to your choice of star systems and encountering random events and challenges along the way. New Ongoing Voyages Mode: Resistance A Borg Cube is tracking your ship, and you must locate a series of prototype defenses in order to survive your final encounter with it.
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