"But it’s less than useless," I’ll retort. "The all-new singing and dancing tactical view lets you command your ships in 3D!" they’ll cry with indignation. It's already soldĪnother warehouse load of copies in the States and filled entire message boards with praise, but at least I can wave an angry fist here and hope to provoke some insulting letters to Feedback. Of course, I’m pissing into the wind here. So yet again, you have to defeat the Borg from assimilating everyone. So you collect resources and build ships as you make your way through the nicely boxed-up campaigns. So it’s a real-time strategy set in the Next Gen universe and played over a flat map pretending to be space. It’s the gaming version of Spot The Difference. And that is exactly what you are expected to do. Not that I didn’t find Armada /vaguely enjoyable, it’s just that I wouldn’t want to play it again. The original may have gone deservedly unnoticed over here, but in the US it was a big enough hit to ensure a cheap and quick remake was promptly knocked off the Activision assembly line. For now, though, we live in the age of Rush Hour2, Hear’Say and Armada II. One day the games industry will be ruled by visionaries willing to throw big bucks at original ideas and create the same sort of atmosphere that Hollywood had in the 70s, when it encouraged the likes of Scorsese and Coppola to make their masterpieces. However, those who jumped in with this second game will probably get frustrated very quickly. If you have played the first game, you will be fine. The problem is the game really does throw you in at the deep end without much explanation for what you have to do or how you have to do it. The story mode is broken up into missions and these can take a couple of hours to beat each! Each one has its own objectives, but they all use the same RTS style gameplay. The story could be told a bit better, but for the most part, the premise alone here was more than enough to get me invested saving the galaxy. Captain Picard decides to just ignore his orders and go on the attack to try and stop the Borg menace once and for all.Īs a Star Trek fan and as a Star Trek fan who loves the Borg, I thought this was pretty cool. It takes place shortly after the events of the first game and this time The Borg has a superweapon and they are able to assimilate a whole world in no time at all. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.The story of Star Trek Armada 2 is one that I thought was pretty damn cool. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.