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It is not very often that we get to announce a new Star Trek Game, and while this isn’t an official game we are posting about, over the past year, the quality of fan created star trek games has improved so much, that it really is hard to distinguish between officially made and fan made games.
So it is with great hope that we announce
Star Trek: Excalibur.
[img align=right]http://195.62.29.251/~hailingf/stguarticles/excalibur/thumb3.jpg[/img] Excalibur aims to take Star Trek Gaming Boldly where it has not gone before; with a stunning next generation game engine (
NanoGE), it aims to be, not only a spiritual sequel to Star Trek Bridge Commander, but a whole lot more.
Similarly to
Bridge Commander, you will control a ship, the Excalibur, through a breathtaking single player campaign, choosing to fight using either the exterior third person ship view, or the interior bridge view, however this is where the similarities between the two games end.
Excalibur will allow you to move around the interior of your ship, with tasks and parts of missions taking place in many popular locations such as Engineering, Sickbay, and The Transporter Rooms – even leaving the ship in some cases to beam down to an alien world!
Imagine a sequence of events where you are fighting the Klingons and they succeed in boarding your ship. You will get the opportunity to leave the Bridge and fight off the invasion with a range of weapons.
[img align=left]http://195.62.29.251/~hailingf/stguarticles/excalibur/thumb1.jpg[/img] Excalibur aims to include the best elements from a number of Star Trek Games, including
Bridge Commander,
Armada,
Elite Force,
Birth of the Federation,
Legacy,
A Final Unity,
Starfleet Command,
Klingon Academy and more, putting all of the best of these games into one single, ultimate star trek game.
The team working on
Excalibur hails from
Bridge Commander Central, a forum that has produced many hit modifications for
Bridge Commander, so we can rest assured that the game is being produced by people who are dedicated to star trek, and dedicated to releasing quality products.
[img align=right]http://195.62.29.251/~hailingf/stguarticles/excalibur/thumb2.jpg[/img]Being a fan made game however, they are unable to guarantee a specific release date for the game, however Mark Ward, the games lead artist and publicist hopes that they will have a completed product within two and a half years.
Hailing Frequency (The Internet’s First Podcast Dedicated to Star Trek Gaming) will be conducting an extensive thirty minute interview with Mark Ward in this weekend’s upcoming show, where we will hear more about this exciting game, including the team’s concepts for a massively multiplayer, persistent online system, as well as several other exciting aspects of the game! Be sure to check out this interview when the show releases on Sunday 17th February.
In the meantime, beam on over to
http://www.stexcalibur.com for more information on this exciting new Star Trek Game!
