In the game Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force you get to choose your gender. You can be Ensign Alexander or Alexandria, but you'll be called 'Alex' either way. You are part of a newly formed Hazard Team, that is specialised in the more dangerous away-missions.
There is a bit of a romantic subplot going on between your character and a female team member (Telsia), regardless of which gender you choose. Here is a word of advise: When Telsia is drinking wine and talking to Neelix, she'll tell you that she's going to take a shower, and proceeds to leave the mess hall. DON'T FOLLOW HER INTO THE LIFT. If you DO enter the turbolift before she does, you will have effectively trapped yourself. The story requires you to be OUTSIDE of that lift, but you can't jump over her, or pass her on the left or the right. You don't have weapons either. If your last save game was 3 hours ago... you'll have to play that all over again.
Some good points:
* Chell, a minor character on Voyager (appeared twice, has blue skin and is a Bolian) appears on the Hazard Team as a mayor character. Is voiced by the same actor.
* The linear story has intense moments, where you have to fight off swarms of enemies, but there are also relaxed periods, where you can walk freely through the corridors of Voyager, and even practice your skills with the weapons on the Holodeck.
* Almost every character from the Voyager crew is voiced by the actual actor that plays them on the show.
* During your visit to the Scavenger's Spaceships (all fused together into one giant space station) you will also encounter a ship that looks a lot like an old (Kirk era) Federation spaceship. If you pay attention to the markings however, you'll notice that these are from THE MIRROR UNIVERSE!!! They belong to the Terran Empire (and apparently got lost in the Delta Quadrant too). Kirk, Sisko and Archer all visited the Mirror Universe and discovered 'evil' counterparts of themselves. Like evil Spock with the goatee or evil lesbian Kira in DS9. This ship is full of funny dialogue, so I suggest you use the stealthy approach instead of the blast everyone on sight approach. ALSO: You get to dress up as a Kirk-era crew member as you rescue Telsia!
* Aliens you'll encounter include a number of familiar foes: Klingons, Mirror Universe Terrans (humans), Malons (the space-garbagemen) a one-on-one encounter with a Hirogen warrior that thinks of you as 'prey', the Borg and Species 8472. The unfamiliar aliens are all quite creative in nature. Etherians (that live on an organic colony ship), guard droids/robots that are activated on an abandoned warship, and then there is The Forge. The Forge is a place where new life forms are 'forged' out of the DNA it has collected from life forms from conquered ships. A bit like to Borg, but without the metal parts. Expect insectoids, bizarre creatures on two legs and THE BIG BOSS.
* You can sometimes opt for a stealth approach and clear a level without firing a shot. Sometimes you just have to wait a bit and for everyone to leave a room, sometimes you have to lure them away by triggering something.
* There are a number of puzzle elements embedded in the environment. These little puzzles certainly make this game more than just another shoot-em-up.
* Deathmatch, Capture the Flag etc are also available. I mention them as good points, even though I personally never play them. I prefer the Unreal Engine when it comes to Deathmatches and Capture the Flag (and not Quake), but that a matter of personal taste.
Bad points:
* Seven of Nine is not voiced by Jeri Ryan! You'll have to download a patch from the internet if you want Seven of Nine to have her real voice.
* The movie-clips are absolutely brilliant, but the in-game backgrounds of certain areas seem quite sloppy. Space is a cube, and you are inside it, and all the six sides of the cube have pictures of wrecked ships that float in space on them. Compared to the beautiful rotating space backgrounds that Unreal Tournament produced, this Quake Engine game failed to catch up.
* Someone else mentioned it too: Rude people on Voyager. You can interact with the crew members that stand about the place fixing things or typing on panels. They will all tell you -in an extremely irritated way- that they are busy and can't be bothered. On top of that: At the end of level one a cut-scene starts in which your character makes a wrong decision. You will later have to deal with a constantly nagging Tuvok, that gladly reminds you of 'your' mistake. Whatever.
On top of THAT: You are also blamed for the fact that the BORG abducted your team's leader, and you'll have people talking bad about you for that too. In other words everyone seems to hate you, no matter how often you save the ship. Even the final decision to face the BIG BOSS that lurks at the end is met with complaints and arrogant Tuvok-isms. And did I mention that Neelix interrupts Telsia's lesbian flirting? (If you play as a girl)
Conclusion: If you liked Star Trek: Voyager, then you are going to love this. You get to go on away-missions with Tuvok and Seven of Nine. You even get to see the Delta Flyer with Tom Paris at the helm. On the down side: You'll have to patch up this game yourself if you want to hear the real Jeri Ryan (and there is also a patch to include more decks on the ship).
There is a bit of a romantic subplot going on between your character and a female team member (Telsia), regardless of which gender you choose. Here is a word of advise: When Telsia is drinking wine and talking to Neelix, she'll tell you that she's going to take a shower, and proceeds to leave the mess hall. DON'T FOLLOW HER INTO THE LIFT. If you DO enter the turbolift before she does, you will have effectively trapped yourself. The story requires you to be OUTSIDE of that lift, but you can't jump over her, or pass her on the left or the right. You don't have weapons either. If your last save game was 3 hours ago... you'll have to play that all over again.
Some good points:
* Chell, a minor character on Voyager (appeared twice, has blue skin and is a Bolian) appears on the Hazard Team as a mayor character. Is voiced by the same actor.
* The linear story has intense moments, where you have to fight off swarms of enemies, but there are also relaxed periods, where you can walk freely through the corridors of Voyager, and even practice your skills with the weapons on the Holodeck.
* Almost every character from the Voyager crew is voiced by the actual actor that plays them on the show.
* During your visit to the Scavenger's Spaceships (all fused together into one giant space station) you will also encounter a ship that looks a lot like an old (Kirk era) Federation spaceship. If you pay attention to the markings however, you'll notice that these are from THE MIRROR UNIVERSE!!! They belong to the Terran Empire (and apparently got lost in the Delta Quadrant too). Kirk, Sisko and Archer all visited the Mirror Universe and discovered 'evil' counterparts of themselves. Like evil Spock with the goatee or evil lesbian Kira in DS9. This ship is full of funny dialogue, so I suggest you use the stealthy approach instead of the blast everyone on sight approach. ALSO: You get to dress up as a Kirk-era crew member as you rescue Telsia!
* Aliens you'll encounter include a number of familiar foes: Klingons, Mirror Universe Terrans (humans), Malons (the space-garbagemen) a one-on-one encounter with a Hirogen warrior that thinks of you as 'prey', the Borg and Species 8472. The unfamiliar aliens are all quite creative in nature. Etherians (that live on an organic colony ship), guard droids/robots that are activated on an abandoned warship, and then there is The Forge. The Forge is a place where new life forms are 'forged' out of the DNA it has collected from life forms from conquered ships. A bit like to Borg, but without the metal parts. Expect insectoids, bizarre creatures on two legs and THE BIG BOSS.
* You can sometimes opt for a stealth approach and clear a level without firing a shot. Sometimes you just have to wait a bit and for everyone to leave a room, sometimes you have to lure them away by triggering something.
* There are a number of puzzle elements embedded in the environment. These little puzzles certainly make this game more than just another shoot-em-up.
* Deathmatch, Capture the Flag etc are also available. I mention them as good points, even though I personally never play them. I prefer the Unreal Engine when it comes to Deathmatches and Capture the Flag (and not Quake), but that a matter of personal taste.
Bad points:
* Seven of Nine is not voiced by Jeri Ryan! You'll have to download a patch from the internet if you want Seven of Nine to have her real voice.
* The movie-clips are absolutely brilliant, but the in-game backgrounds of certain areas seem quite sloppy. Space is a cube, and you are inside it, and all the six sides of the cube have pictures of wrecked ships that float in space on them. Compared to the beautiful rotating space backgrounds that Unreal Tournament produced, this Quake Engine game failed to catch up.
* Someone else mentioned it too: Rude people on Voyager. You can interact with the crew members that stand about the place fixing things or typing on panels. They will all tell you -in an extremely irritated way- that they are busy and can't be bothered. On top of that: At the end of level one a cut-scene starts in which your character makes a wrong decision. You will later have to deal with a constantly nagging Tuvok, that gladly reminds you of 'your' mistake. Whatever.
On top of THAT: You are also blamed for the fact that the BORG abducted your team's leader, and you'll have people talking bad about you for that too. In other words everyone seems to hate you, no matter how often you save the ship. Even the final decision to face the BIG BOSS that lurks at the end is met with complaints and arrogant Tuvok-isms. And did I mention that Neelix interrupts Telsia's lesbian flirting? (If you play as a girl)
Conclusion: If you liked Star Trek: Voyager, then you are going to love this. You get to go on away-missions with Tuvok and Seven of Nine. You even get to see the Delta Flyer with Tom Paris at the helm. On the down side: You'll have to patch up this game yourself if you want to hear the real Jeri Ryan (and there is also a patch to include more decks on the ship).