Greetings one and all.
Well by now we’re all fully engrossed in Final Fantasy XIII, and with good cause. Despite reviews complaining about liner linear linar how you don’t have much choice in direction and what not everyone who I know who got it, loves it.
But that’s not what I’m here to talk to you about today. Oh no. I’m here to talk to you about something that sucked me in weeks before FFXIII and will no doubt draw me back once the credits have rolled on Cocoon and Pulse. I refer to Star Trek Online.
The geekiest of combinations possible, an MMO based on Star Trek. I was sucked after finishing a run through of DS9 dvds and needed more. STO is set in the “prime” Star Trek universe some 30 odd years after Spock and Eric Bana are sent back in time. So this is the universe we know from Next Gen, not the new timeline from the Abrams movie.
Your 3 basic classes are Engineering (tank/support) Tactical (DPS) and science (Buffs/healing). These come into play not only for your character but for your ship too. Cruisers for Engineers, Escorts for Tactical and Science vessels for, um, science.
They each have 4 tiers growing further apart in focus as you go. For example the later escorts turn on a sixpence but can’t take as much of a pounding as a same tier cruiser. The trade-off been cruisers tend to handle like a bloody office block.
I have been truly captivated by this game, possibly more so then I was with Champions and can see myself playing it for months and indeed years to come. With plenty of endgame content planned and the first 5 man “raidisode” mission going live last week this one could have legs. Make it so!
phil haymes
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