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Instead of gold or ore, you mine dilithium from small blue planetoids.Instead of mountains, there are impassible nebulae to confine your movements on the map.It also succumbs to the genres most common failings the computer AI is bad, the pathfinding is awful, and the mission flavor is pure vanilla.The campaign structure then drags through the chronically uninspired Klingon and Romulan missions.
![]() But the Borg finale is just short of brilliant, and if you win, culminates in the assimilation of Earth itself. Expect time travel to figure; once again the house of Duras teams with Sela of the Romulans to topple the Klingon High Council; the sword of Kahless is a factor; and the Borg are led by a snooty figurehead. And the developer managed to throw in everything from the Dominion to Species 9431 into the mix, and they made a lot of obscure Trek technologies available for gameplay. Theres great voice acting from Patrick Stewart, Michael Dorn (Worf), and whoever plays Sela. The graphics are first-rate, and the cinematic view option looks like something youd see on the big screen. Ultimately, Armada isnt anything you havent already seen before as a real-time strategy game, but its bundled with so many flashing lights and cool starships that you dont really care and end up enjoying it regardless.
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