Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force Expansion - PC

Elite Force is my favorite first person "shooter." The story and graphics are all top notch and it was a lot of fun to play. When I heard that there was going to be an expansion pack, I got myself ready for another engrossing adventure.Well, I have to say that I was disappointed. It starts out good, though. You get to walk around Voyager without a time limit, which is very cool for Trek fans. You can read up on past missions, read personal logs and even use a replicator. This is nice, but I wanted to make my way to the holodeck to try the new missions.So, I tried the Captain Proton episode. First of all, the black and white graphics are beautiful but that's where the fun ends. You can't save the game during the single player missions but after completing the Proton adventure within 10 minutes without dying, I realized that you don't need to save it. There isn't much challenge to it. Plus, the graphics slowed WAY down in may spots for an unknown reason (is a patch needed?) and I had to walk backwards for a while to remedy the problem. When I finally found "Satan's Robot" and the "girl", it was over before I knew it.The other single player missions are uninspired and dull. A malfunctioned holodeck, shooting range and a Klingon base are all you get and the maps are quite small.However, the additional maps for the holomatches are really good. They are much larger and even more graphically detailed. You also get a wider selection of opponents, including Janeway Borg and Captain Proton. Try out the "Singularity" map.All in all, the Virtual Voyager is nice but there isn't much too it. If you want a good single player mode, try searching the net for MODS. There are some good ones out there! The new holomatches save this from being a total disaster.

This is still one of my favorite Star Trek Games to date. The graphics were really good for that time period of games and the levels were some what challenging at first. The holodeck missions for multi-player were fun to play with friends as starfleet officers. I was also a hug fan of Star Trek Voyager so I had to buy the game and see if it was worth it. The Expansion add-on which is this option and game. Had a lot of cool features and it let you explore the ship without having a time limit or any real mission to do!! It gave you that feeling of being an officer on board the ship

It is a good plot and a good game too. The end boss is very hard which is bad because if you can't beat the end boss it is very bad but you can defeat the end boss if you cheat.

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If you can get it cheap, definitely pick up this expansion pack for the first "Elite Force" - one of the best Trek games ever made. The new disk is obviously tilted towards multiplayer, having limited additions for dedicated single-player users. There are new holomatches - though they seem arguably as good as those you can find for free on-line. For the single-player, this pack offers some nifty if-pointless missions on the holodeck, and a nifty is comparably pointless scavenger hunt where you must search the Voyager for action-figures of your favorite "Voyager" characters. There's also a wicked looking puzzle game pitting you against the Borg. The pack is built around a virtual-tour of the Voyager - much like those of the original EF, only without you having to be anywhere or meet anybody, and being able to visit any deck rather than those related to a specific mission/map.The stuff here looks good, and while it's annoying to nitpick with quality, the problem here is that the stuff that looks nice shows how much better this pack could have been. The holodeck maps are excellent - including one inside of a Klingon base that boasts some of the best atmospherics of EF or even the "Jedi Knight" games also based on the QuakeIII engine. There's also a holo-map based on "Captain Proton" (in black and white, of course) which looks niftier than it is (you spend a lot of time just walking and dodging raygun blasts as you navigate the impressive looking canyons of "Dr. Chaotica". You finish the maps only to find yourself back on Voyager with little to do, wondering why the rest of the pack's offerings weren't as fun as the holodeck. The virtual tour is also a washout because there's a ton of detail and zero action - sort of descriptive of an episode of the show.Some have sought and paid exorbitant sums for this pack thinking that 3rd party add-ons for "Elite Force" won't work without it. That may be true, but most issues relating to add-ons can normally be solved adjusting "hunkmegs" settings in the base game.In short, single-player users are better off just sticking with the base game. The pack comes with some interesting yet otherwise unrewarding additions.