Star Trek – Infinite Space ( Here we go again, Again! )

[Mrbloodworth]

Star Trek – Infinite Space: Fun, free and easy to play
Lift-off in Summer 2011

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Engage in the official free-to-play Star Trek™ game and experience stunning Unity™ 3D graphics with your web browser. Join thousands in the fight for the Federation or the Klingon Empire. SIGN-UP NOW to be one of the first players to boldly go where no browser game has gone before. Join us on FACEBOOK or visit the FORUM to stay in closest touch.
FEATURES:

    Set phasers to fun: The first browser-based Star Trek MMO game is easy to pick up and play. Suitable for quick lunch break assignments as well as long exploration nights.
    It doesn’t cost the galaxy: Free to play! No software costs and no subscription fees required.
    You are in the Captain’s chair: Select your vessel from many authentic Star Trek spaceships, embark on missions and freely explore star sectors. Rise in level, gather special ship equipment or master skills by building up you own crew.
    Fascinating 3D: Stunning technology from the advanced Unity™ federation delivers rich and rewarding 3D graphics to your web browser like never experienced with flash technology.
    Your web browser is the final frontier: No client software installation to wait for, just visit www.startrek-is.com with your web browser and start playing straight away. Mac users can finally compete with PC users or even play in coop-mode.
    Play with your friends: Tackle missions on your own or join up with fellow Captains for cooperative gameplay.
    … or disintegrate them: Visit dedicated player vs player sectors to engage in combat.
    Be part of the future of Star Trek™: Experience brand-new adventures in the Deep Space Nine universe, developed and scripted by Star Trek Veterans.

GAME FACTS:

    The release date is scheduled for 2011
    The game uses Unity3D (browser plugin), no additional download is necessary. Find browser-embedded 3D Starships in our Media Section for a quick demo of the Unity Engine.
    Developed by keen games in Frankfurt (Germany) and published by Gameforge
    To ensure that a full Star Trek feeling is achieved, Star Trek experts Mike and Denise Okuda are assisting us
    Lee Sheldon, the experienced game designer, author, producer and script writer of Star Trek TV Shows is writing the storyline and game missions
    Choose between two playable factions: Join the Federation or become a Klingon
    The game is set in the Deep Space Nine timeline of late Seasons 3 and after (Dominion War)
    The game will be a free-to-play casual browser game, meaning that there will be no subscription fee and that the game will be playable without payment

http://startrek-is.com/

[Azuredream]

Set phasers to fun

What?

[Furiously]

Khaaaaaaan!!!!!!!!!!

[Ashamanchill]

Hey! Those graphics are better then STOs!

[luckton]

Hey! Those graphics are better then STOs!

Considering it's browser game, that would be rather an insult 

[jakonovski]

Hey! Those graphics are better then STOs!

Nothing wrong with STO graphics man.

[Tannhauser]

Hell, I'll try it out, the price is right.

[Venkman]

No Sovereign Class? Fail.

And unfortunately, that is not the first time I've seen "set phases to fun!". I hate marketing copy from people who don't play games.

I thought STO was pretty in some parts. It was no Eve, but it captured the TNG universe ok.

[Samprimary]

Set phasers to fun

What?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ziw3nHCHEJw&feature=related

[tgr]

Someone in the porn industry should make a star trek game, so I can run around and yell "set phasers to hottie".

[Ashamanchill]

No Sovereign Class? Fail.

And unfortunately, that is not the first time I've seen "set phases to fun!". I hate marketing copy from people who don't play games.

I thought STO was pretty in some parts. It was no Eve, but it captured the TNG universe ok.

If I actually get to be the Defiant, or a Defiant themed ship right from the get go I might be game.

As for the graphics, was there something wrong with my copy of STO or something? I thought it had the shabbiest graphics of any modern MMO I have played yet. At parts i was honestly debating my roommate whether this was equal to late stage PS1 graphics.

[Amaron]

At parts i was honestly debating my roommate whether this was equal to late stage PS1 graphics.

The PS1 can't even draw straight lines in 3d.

[Sir T]

If I actually get to be the Defiant, or a Defiant themed ship right from the get go I might be game.

Any game that had the defiant would immediately have people bitching that it cant singleandedly pwn every ship in the universe because of DS9 Episode xxx. Or would bitch because the thing is in full scale production like it would be in any sane universe and there are no other ships out there (something the size of a rowing boat that can blow the shit out of a few battleships and maneuvers like a fighter? I'll take 1000 please) Any games designer with any sense would just forget the silly thing existed.

At least in B5 they had about 200 White Stars and they lost loads of them going up against cap ships...

[koro]

At parts i was honestly debating my roommate whether this was equal to late stage PS1 graphics.

The PS1 can't even draw straight lines in 3d.

Just to further illustrate just how utterly stupid that comment was, here is a late-gen PSX game (Colony Wars III, so we're at least in the same vague ballpark setting-wise):

And here is STO:

I don't know about you guys, but I can't tell which came out in 2000 and which came out in 2010.

[Ashamanchill]

Hahaha gorsh you're funny.



The first one is one the the very first images turned up from googling that game, and the second was literally the first thing you see in STO, no digging around or sifting to make my case.

Edit: Just to clarify, my graphics were set on exactly the halfway mark on all the features.

[Strazos]

The space pewpewlazerz is hard to resist. 

[tmp]

Hahaha gorsh you're funny.

In all fairness if i'm not mistaken literally everything in this shot aside from the characters was painted background...

[Amaron]

You guys.   The PS1 didn't have a Z buffer.   That's why it can't draw straight lines in 3d.   Go boot up your old PS1 and actually watch it in motion.   You will easily see what I'm talking about.

[Yegolev]

I call that "character".

Edit to say I was playing Symphony of the Night last week in the PS3, but the emulation seems to preserve the graphical "style".

[raydeen]

I had an FPS on the PS1 called Disrupter. It wasn't bad (well, except for the laughable FMV cut scenes) but yeah, it did some funky ass things especially to the textures. They would bend and warp like you wouldn't believe. Reminded me of Tomb Raider 1 on my old TNT card. Just *barely* 3D acceleration.

All that aside, the Colony Wars games were epic.

[Amaron]

Hahaha gorsh you're funny.

Just so you know that's a PSX emulator running the game in higher res.

[Margalis]

I had an FPS on the PS1 called Disrupter. It wasn't bad (well, except for the laughable FMV cut scenes) but yeah, it did some funky ass things especially to the textures. They would bend and warp like you wouldn't believe. Reminded me of Tomb Raider 1 on my old TNT card. Just *barely* 3D acceleration.

PS1 doesn't do perspective-correction on textures, that's probably what you are seeing.