Star Trek: Legacy (Xbox 360)

There is a long legacy, that’s for sure: Star Trek games that look good on paper, but turn out, well, not so much. In this game, you chase down some Vulcan scientist, T’Uerell (seriously, that’s how it’s spelled), who is trying to take control of the Borg for some damn reason. In a neat little twist, the game progresses from the Enterprise era to the Next Generation era, including voice acting from all five Star Trek captains. The bad thing is they spend an entire third of the game on Enterprise. Who the hell cares about Enterprise that much?

The one good thing about this game is the graphics. They’re quite pretty. Everything else about the game is mediocre to bad. It’s ridiculous that the single-player campaign mode is only 15 missions long, which you can complete in probably a few hours. They consist of at least one of these two things: a. combat, or b. performing some dull tasks like scanning ships or destroying asteroids. There’s multiplayer, but it just amounts to “fight until one side loses”. The controls are… okay, aside from sometimes having ships in your fleet just sit around and do nothing.

Seriously, though, this game does look good. It’s a shame that they didn’t think to build a better game around the graphics. If you’re a Trekkie, you’ll probably want to play it just for the nerdgasm factor, but that’s about it.

2 out of 5