Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity (1995 Video Game) User Reviews

Still the best Trek adventure game to date

[amaveeri · 9/10 · 11 May 2002]

Yes, the graphics are dated now. Yes, you have to wrestle your computer into DOS to play it. But this adventure will suck you in.

The story is as rich as (in Insurrection's case, richer than) a TNG film, but much, much longer. Spectrum Holobyte used the medium of the game to tell an extended and detailed story, with nearly countless compelling characters and environments. The many-faceted interface and difficulty controls keeps gamers at any level engaged.

The entire cast of TNG was on board to provide voices, and they breathe life into their stone-faced animated characters. This is a gem from the golden age of PC adventures, and until a Trek adventure at the calibre of "Deus Ex" emerges, it will remain on top. If you're lucky enough to see a copy of it, pick it up without hesitation.

Best Star Trek Game ever

[mirko-prijatelj · 10/10 · 11 April 2001]

The Game takes place directly after the end of The Next Generation. You command the Enterprise, lead away teams, fight other vessel, and/or solve conflicts by using your diplomatic capabilities. A very good plot that offers multiple options to you leads you threw the game. The Videos and Sounds are great!

The game even Trek haters would like

[KHayes666 · 15 May 2005]

Growing up watching Star Trek and Star Trek: TNG, when I got this game in 1997 I was amazed of how fun it was. Being able to play all the characters and listening to their comments when you do stuff was sometimes hilarious. For instance if you point the phaser at something Dr Crusher would go "I don't think we need to blast everything in sight" The overall plot to the game felt like a movie in itself and it moved gracefully from helping planets with inner problems to rebelling a Romulan fleet to saving the universe with The Unity Device....it slowly built up the importance of the ship and its crew.

I have nothing negative to say about this game but it used to freeze my computers on a number of occasions. Also, instead of having make believe characters (then again...they all are) like Carlstrom and Butler...it would have been much more entertaining to have characters such as Wesley Crusher, Reg Barclay, Ro Lauren, etc...someone we've seen before play the role.

The battle scenes graphics are great for the time period and the methods of fighting are well done.

Great game to kill time with

A wonderful Trek game

[Gonzalo · 10/10 · 18 January 1999]

It's one of the best games I've ever played, and maybe the best Trek game I've seen. The graphics are wonderful, and the histories are very interesting. I think they have made a great work, and I can't wait for another game with the same playing style (not like Generations) and the same casting, with new and excitng adventures.

Good game but a little boring.

[DragonMasterHiro · 2 July 2003]

When this game came out, I immediately bought it. It was one of the first couple of games made for Next Generation and I was looking forward to controlling Picard and the crew. This is an adventure game, similar to Star Trek: 25th Anniversary and Judgment Rites. It was a pain to getting it to work on my crappy computer at the time, but I finally got it to. When I saw the opening sequence, I was amazed. Sure the graphics are crappy in comparison now, but seeing the crew animated and on my computer screen was exciting.

The beginning of the game sucks you in as you're automatically put into a dire situation. When on the bridge of the Enterprise, you control Picard and what he says and does. When you go down for the away team missions, you can take whomever you want (you have a bigger selection depending on what difficulty level you're on). Again, all the cast supplied voices and everyone's been scripted for any situation.

*POSSIBLE SPOILERS* Sometimes, however, the game could get a little boring. I remember being stuck on that planet with the wildlife preserve and doing all those tests on those stupid animals. It was also annoying to have to get all those samples from the different habitats and call the right people in the lab.

Other than that, it was a very good game. It wasn't just running into battle or a lot of shooting or explosions. You had to use strategy to solve the puzzles or get passed the traps. Very Star Trek and very well done.

A cool video game!!!

[TheTransfan · 19 November 1998]

I will make this brief:

This is an awesome game! With great voice acting(STAR TREK JUGDMENT RITES was appaling despite acting by the original actors) and a great storyline that was based off of Rome's "plebians" and "patricians".

Rating: 4 stars out of 5 stars. My only complaint was that it kept freezing up on my computer. But I beat the game anyway!

Good game for the time, but too slow

[paul51 · 28 March 2005]

Although the graphics were good for the time, it was just about impossible to get this game to run correctly on any computer I had access to. Either it froze up constantly, the video was choppy, or the sound and voices were out of sync, or any combination of the three.

I never completed the game that I can recall. I slogged through the damaged space station and wildlife preserve planet chapters (the latter of which is horrendously boring) and by that time I was ready to call it quits.

It was interesting that just about every happenstance was scripted for every character, regardless of who you'd chosen for the away missions. A fine attention to detail on the part of the game's creators.

Any twitch-game or FPS fan wouldn't give this game a second glance, and it's really even too slow and tedious for a quest game pro. Good effort, though.