Star Trek Online is one more upcoming MMORPG in the market. It is based on Star Trek fiction universe and being developed by Cryptis Studios. Perpetual Entertainment was the company who was working on it before January 2008. Official announcement about the game was made by Cryptic Studios on July 28, 2008. Previously on January 15, 2008 it was reported that Perpetual Studios had stopped the work. The license and assets were transferred to Cryptic Studios. Before that, Cryptic Studios developed the superhero City of Heroes, and MMORPG. According to Cryptic Studios, they will release Star Trek on Windows as well as on consoles like Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

According to original website, each player will be given opportunity to be captain of the ship. Possible titles for the captain will be “Federation Captain” and “Klingon Warrior” as possibilities. Players will be able to land on surface of various planets and fought with the inhabitants. Exploring the Starship is also included. It was announced that player would play as a Starfleet or Klingon officer, or can create entirely new races. As adventure is possible on the new planets, space, or aboard ships. Players will be captain of their ship. Regardless of actual rank, anyone can captain a ship. It will include a crew all of them will be NPCs.

In an interview, it was cleared that the game will feature famous storyline, ships, and characters from various Star Trek shows. As a player, you can explore uncharted star systems, and might find content, which opens up new resources and new technologies. Player may find races with various special abilities who you can recruit as crew. There are two different combat system in the game. Away team missions will feature a fast paced “run and gun” combat. Space combat will stress long-term tactical aspect of combat between capital ships. Just like the Star trek storyline and will have entail positioning, shifting, power from weapons to shields, and finding various weapons to shields and finding weakness.

There might be a Galactic Economy, which is based in trade, and might fluctuate like a stock market. It will be possible for players to resource to form fleets or guilds. Fleets will be able to build space stations, mining platforms, satellites, shipyards, and many more. Players will be issued Quests from the central command; players can join on the ground. Gameplay is fully co-operative and dynamic events are the another part of the game. A “system of infinite exploration” will enable to find and explore random, uncharted planets. There is great variety of ships to be played. Playable ships classes will not depend on the skill of the player.

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