Star Trek - Bridge Commander patched

ok this is a re upload of a old torrent that i took down when demonoid blocked canada





this is the core bridge commander game pre patched v1.1.



once again you don't need the patch it is in here already.



just unrar and click the icon that has bc on it and play away

also if your pc can't run 1240x1024 delete the options file.



thank you for downloading this







enjoy this game i have



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For more than a decade, Larry Holland and the team of developers at Totally Games have consistently released acclaimed simulations. After releasing a trio of critically and commercially successful World War II combat flight sims, Totally Games abandoned realistic simulations and opted to produce the X-Wing and TIE Fighter Star Wars sims for LucasArts. Given its history and expert handling of the Star Wars license, Totally Games was a natural choice to produce a space sim based on science fiction's other famous franchise, Star Trek. While some gamers cynically believed that the slow-paced capital-ship battles of the Star Trek universe could never be effectively translated into an enjoyable space sim, Totally Games has convincingly disproved those beliefs in its latest effort. Despite its short length and a few other problems, Star Trek Bridge Commander is an innovative, entertaining simulation that adapts its licensed subject material in a manner that should satisfy even the franchise's most zealous fans.



Bridge Commander combines tactical ship combat and adventure elements.



Bridge Commander isn't the first space sim set in the Star Trek universe, but it is undoubtedly the best one. Previously released games such as Starfleet Academy and Klingon Academy just supplied ammunition to those who believed that the nature of combat in the Star Trek universe couldn't be translated into an interesting game. The Star Trek universe minimizes the role of small fighter craft and focuses on large, durable starships, and yet vessels in previous Star Trek sims handled like fighters instead of like more-formidable craft. The Academy games inappropriately tried to pigeonhole the fast-paced dogfights of conventional space sims like X-Wing and Wing Commander into games based upon the Star Trek universe. And although Totally Games helped to fashion many of those conventions through its work on the X-Wing games, it has avoided making the same mistakes made by the creators of those earlier Star Trek space sims. In Bridge Commander, battles are slow-paced tactical contests in which success doesn't depend upon quickly lining up targets for your ship's forward guns. Combat perfectly resembles the battles depicted in the various TV series and in movies like Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.



Totally Games did make some gameplay compromises in order to permit Bridge Commander's battles to be so similar to those in the Star Trek movies and series. As you'd expect given their immense size, ships change directions sluggishly, but generally movement also just doesn't seem to flow smoothly, and it's sometimes inordinately difficult to close range or effectively outmaneuver even slower vessels. While there are computer-controlled assists available to let you better intercept targets, it still seems as though the developers were so determined to prevent battles from devolving into turning chases that they artificially crippled your ability to track and circle enemies. Even if that's the case, those compromises were worthwhile, since they make these Star Trek vessels feel like large naval ships instead of fighter planes.



All space sims to date have been primarily focused on combat, and that tradition continues with Bridge Commander since the game is essentially a linear series of combat missions. However, unlike other space sims, Bridge Commander occasionally throws in noncombat solutions to confrontations and requires you to spend a significant amount of time doing activities that are ancillary or unrelated to the game's battles. Bridge Commander casts you in the role of a nameless, faceless, and voiceless commander of a couple of the Federation's most powerful starships shortly after the end of the Dominion War depicted in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Set entirely within an inhospitable region of space called the Maelstrom, Bridge Commander has a detailed storyline that involves investigating the cause of a mysterious supernova and uncovering the involvement of the region's Cardassian, Klingon, Ferengi, and Romulan inhabitants.



You can play the entire game from the captain's perspective.



Bridge Commander consistently requires you to interactively advance the story by investigating events and discussing events with various nonplayer characters. There isn't a lot of depth to those interactions, and the apparent ability you are granted to influence events or nonlinearly explore the region is illusory, but the noncombat portions of Bridge Commander are sufficiently engaging to make it seem almost as much an adventure game as it is a space sim. It also seems appropriate that the game isn't entirely focused on combat, given Star Trek's emphasis on exploration and the Federation's peaceful intentions.



Presumably to make you personally identify with your character, your character is nondescript and never even speaks in the game, but each of your bridge crew members is given a colorful personality. Missions seamlessly blend into each other, and during the course of missions your crew will discuss events among themselves and provide you with appropriate advice and direction. Star Trek mainstays Commander Data and Captain Picard both make appearances in the game, voiced by their real-life alter egos, Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner. Consistent with its inclusion of adventure game elements, Bridge Commander lets you play the entire single-player game from the perspective of the captain's chair on the bridge. You can use the mouse to look around at the other crew members and to bring up command menus at each crew member's station, or you can just rely on hotkeys to immediately bring up those menus. Playing from the captain's perspective definitely offers an unusual simulation experience, since you'll be entirely reliant on the skills of your computer-controlled crew to maneuver your ship and effectively target opponents. When played from that perspective, the game seems uniquely suited for voice-recognition control software such as Microsoft's Game Voice and Game Commander 2, and Totally Games had the foresight to include custom-made profiles for use with these.