Star Trek Online
We’re getting a hat trick of Massively Multiplayer games this week, starting with Star Trek Online for the PC. In this MMORPG each player takes command of either a Federation or Klingon starship, and explores the galaxy—making friends, fighting enemies, and completing quests. While in space, ship-to-ship combat has players maneuvering in a 3D environment to take the upper hand using the tech of the Star Trek universe. On the ground, players lead away-teams of four characters on instanced scientific, combat, and exploration missions.
The ships can be customized within certain Star-Trekky parameters, but when playing Federation, the player’s character can be widely customized—even allowing the player to create a custom alien race with a wide variety of potential facial features. The story takes place after the future events of “All Good Things…” (The most future canon of the television shows), and seem to depict a time of transition and exploration, when the Klingon Empire is once again a threat to the Federation. Play will be subscription-based only.
Global Agenda
Also for the PC, the MMORPG Global Agenda brings us to 22C Earth, after a global catastrophe. A “megacorp” is ruling the Earth’s population, and as the devastated land slowly becomes habitable again, there is a rush to be the first to pillage and settle the new areas. Players take on the roles of secret agents who can specialize in assault, recon, medicine, or robotics. Similar to the new DDO model, players can choose to play for free, giving them access to most of the content, or they can pay for a premium subscription which would give them access to additional features that consist mostly of conveniences and end-game content.
White Knight Chronicles
For the PS3 we’re getting the Icrontic Spotlight for this week, White Knight Chronicles. This is a single player RPG with optional MMO content. The game itself seem like a spiritual successor to the popular Dark Cloud franchise. Gameplay consists mostly of dungeon crawling and loot gathering, but some of the loot consists of “georamas”, which the player can use to add buildings, people, and scenery to their town—allowing each player to customize their town with what kind of industry, shops and assistants they want for their play style. This town will act as the character’s home base throughout the adventures and, from there, they will be able to access the Massive Multiplayer content.
Some optional quests that the character receives will take place in a special area which they can either venture into alone, or team up with other players from GeoNet, White Knight Chronicle’s own matchmaking service. Playing these optional quests will grant the player access to unique items and georamas that they would not have found otherwise. Players can also visit other player’s towns to buy and sell items and talk to NPCs, with a copy of each town being stored on GeoNet, so that other players can visit at any time.
As always, you can purchase these games (and others) from Ye Olde Icrontic Gaming Shoppe.
PC
- Global Agenda
- Mystery 5 Collection
- North America Making History II: The War of the World
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
- Star Trek Online
- The Flower Shop
- The Sims 3: High-End Loft Stuff
Wii
- 5 in 1 Solitaire
- Family Party: 30 Great Games Winter Fun
- Sled Shred featuring the Jamaican Bobsled Team
- Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 5: Rise of the Pirate God
- Tumblebugs 2
- Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi (VC – Sega Genesis)
- Alex Kidd in Shinobi World (VC – Master Console)
- Ghoul Patrol (VC – SNES)
DS
- 5 in 1 Solitaire
- Bejeweled Twist
- Downtown Texas Hold’em
- Imagine: Reporter
- Legends of Exidia
- Move your Brain Rollway Puzzle
- True Swing Golf Express
Xbox 360
- Chime
PS3
- White Knight Chronicles International Edition
PSP
- Armored Core: Silent Line Portable
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