Star Trek: Away Team
Encyclopedia
Star Trek: Away Team is an isometric
real-time tactics
game set in the fictional universe of Star Trek
and focusing on commando
-style reconnaissance and combat. It was developed by Reflexive Entertainment
and published by Activision
in 2001 for the Microsoft Windows
platform.
war with the Dominion
(c. Stardate 54800 — c. October 2377).
Away Team was released in 2001, the year Activision gained complete control of the Star Trek game franchise. Away Team was Activision's first Star Trek game title following the success of Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force in 2000. By this time some PC gaming magazines were beginning to note a decline in the quality of Star Trek games, and many reviews of Away Team make reference to this so-called 'Star Trek stigma'. Despite this, Away Team had reasonable success in both sales and reviews.
Isometric projection
Isometric projection is a method for visually representing three-dimensional objects in two dimensions in technical and engineering drawings...
real-time tactics
Real-time tactics
Real-time tactics or RTT is a subgenre of tactical wargames played in real-time simulating the considerations and circumstances of operational warfare and military tactics...
game set in the fictional universe of Star Trek
Star Trek
Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...
and focusing on commando
Commando
In English, the term commando means a specific kind of individual soldier or military unit. In contemporary usage, commando usually means elite light infantry and/or special operations forces units, specializing in amphibious landings, parachuting, rappelling and similar techniques, to conduct and...
-style reconnaissance and combat. It was developed by Reflexive Entertainment
Reflexive Entertainment
Reflexive Entertainment is a computer game developer based in Lake Forest, California. The company was founded by Lars Brubaker in 1997...
and published by Activision
Activision
Activision is an American publisher, majority owned by French conglomerate Vivendi SA. Its current CEO is Robert Kotick. It was founded on October 1, 1979 and was the world's first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles...
in 2001 for the Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
platform.
Overview
An "away team" refers to a group of crewmen who sally from their starship to conduct a mission. For each of the game's missions, the player must form and command an away team which he selects from among seventeen crewmen, each with different specialties. Game action consists of sneaking through various enemy installations trying to solve puzzles without being detected by guards or security systems. The game is set in the period after the Federation'sUnited Federation of Planets
The United Federation of Planets, also known as "The Federation" is a fictional interplanetary federal republic depicted in the Star Trek television series and motion pictures...
war with the Dominion
Dominion (Star Trek)
In the Star Trek universe, the Dominion is a ruthless and militaristic Gamma Quadrant state consisting of many different races. The Dominion wages war on the United Federation of Planets and its allies in the late 24th century, acting as an antagonist in the TV show Star Trek: Deep Space...
(c. Stardate 54800 — c. October 2377).
Away Team was released in 2001, the year Activision gained complete control of the Star Trek game franchise. Away Team was Activision's first Star Trek game title following the success of Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force in 2000. By this time some PC gaming magazines were beginning to note a decline in the quality of Star Trek games, and many reviews of Away Team make reference to this so-called 'Star Trek stigma'. Despite this, Away Team had reasonable success in both sales and reviews.