Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force (GOG)

A damaged starship becomes a pressure-cooker battlefield in Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force, a brisk first-person shooter that gives the Voyager crew an unusually action-heavy adventure. You play Ensign Alex Munro, a member of the ship’s Hazard Team, after Voyager is pulled into a dangerous region crowded with hostile scavengers, malfunctioning vessels, and the ever-present Borg threat. The tone balances TV-series banter and familiar characters with sudden ambushes, collapsing corridors, and desperate firefights. It is a focused late-1990s FPS rather than a slow starship-management game, but its Trek setting gives every mission more personality than its era’s average corridor shooter.

Munro tackles a largely linear campaign of shipboard assaults, alien installations, derelict craft, and a memorable Borg Cube infiltration. Combat runs on quick movement, responsive aiming, and a compact but useful arsenal of Starfleet and alien weapons, most offering alternate fire modes for situations such as clustered enemies, armored targets, or close-range panic. Phaser settings, explosives, energy weapons, environmental hazards, keycard-style objectives, and occasional simple puzzles keep the pace from becoming pure target practice. Squadmates often accompany missions, exchanging dialogue and contributing to the feeling that you belong to Voyager’s crew, while the included expansion adds further missions and the Virtual Voyager hub material. Multiplayer also remains available for old-school deathmatch, team battles, and flag-capturing modes, though its appeal today is mostly for LAN sessions or dedicated retro FPS fans.

What separates Elite Force from many licensed shooters is how convincingly it uses Star Trek’s technology, species, and ship interiors without sacrificing the immediacy of a Quake-era shooter. Enemy encounters are staged with more variety than expected, using scripted attacks, destructible scenery, teleporting foes, and changing environments to sell the danger. Visuals and level design clearly show their age, yet the campaign’s pacing, voice work, and faithful Voyager atmosphere still carry it. Fans of Quake II, Half-Life, or classic Star Trek television who want a concise single-player FPS should find it easy to recommend, while modern shooter players should arrive prepared for dated movement and design conventions.