Comic-Con: New Game..Star Trek: Battlestations for the PS2
Monday, July 24, 2006
Star Trek XI isnt the only big comeback for the Trek franchise in 2006. This year also marked the return of Trek to the gaming community with the announcement of a deal with BethesdaSoft last January. Star Trek had been out of the gaming world since Activision sued Paramount to get out of its licensing deal back in 2003.New PS2 game confirmed and Fontana confirmed as Legacy writer
So far Bethesda had announced 2 games: StarTrek: Legacy for the PC and Xbox 360 (with a story, now confirmed, to be written by Trek Vet DC Fontana), and Star Trek: Tactical Assault for the Sony PSP and Nintendo DS. Now it appears that they can cross the console with the largest installed base off their todo list: At the 'Star Trek 41 years and counting' ComicCon panel, CBS Consumer Products Executive Paula Block announced a 3rd game called 'Star Trek: Battlestations' for the PS2 (She did also say that the name wasn't final). [NOTE: PS2 and not PS3] It is too early yet for any announcements on a game tie-in with Star Trek XI...we can only hope that sales for Bethesda's first Trek games goes well.
A different game
It is interesting that Battlestation is not a port of either Legacy or Tactical Assault but a totally new game. In describing the difference Paula Block said "if you just want a good starship shoot-em-up you get Star Trek: Battlesation, if you want a good story you can have Star Trek: Legacy". I suspect (especially with it being a PS2 game) that this game was in development before the Activision lawsuit in 2003, I find it hard to believe that they would start a PS2 project in 2006. Launch date was this fall.
Paula Block (3rd from left) Announcing Star Trek: Battlestations
posted by Tony P @ 4:53 PM,
3 Comments:
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At 1:00 AM,
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well she obviously hasn't played either of the games then if she thinks that Legacy is the "story" game...
interesting that members of the game development teams were there but were not on the panels but ST novelists were? -
At 1:39 AM,
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Is Star Trek: Legacy already out? I haven't even heard of it. I've been desperately wanting to get a new ST game for PC or XBox, but I didn't think there were any. Is legacy any good? What time period is it in?
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At 11:57 AM,
Tony P said...
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Legacy is not out yet
check out: the official site for more info on the upcoming Trek Games
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