A developer who labored on 2003 first-person shooter Star Trek: Elite Drive 2 says it needed to be rewritten due to the assaults on New York on September 11, 2001.
Launched on PC in 2003, Star Trek: Elite Drive II was revealed by Activision and developed by Ritual Leisure, which had beforehand labored on SiN.
The sport has gamers taking up the function of Starfleet lieutenant Alexander Munro, who’s made chief of a newly created Hazard Workforce by Captain Picard.
Munro, usually assisted by different Hazard Workforce members, has to tackle a collection of linear missions as directed by Picard. This wasn’t the unique plan for the sport, nonetheless, in line with degree designer and lead scripter Benson Russell.
In an interview with FRVR, Russell – who went on to affix Naughty Canine and labored as a sport designer on Uncharted 1-3 and The Final of Us – defined that the sport’s plot was initially alleged to be a few terror assault on Starfleet Academy, earlier than real-world occasions pressured a redesign.
“I keep in mind we have been making Elite Drive 2, and 9/11 occurred at the moment,” Russell recalled. “One of many authentic scenes was, while you have been at Starfleet Academy, it was alleged to get an assault.
“We really had a shuttle fly right into a constructing and stuff like that. Nicely, that was a no-no, for comprehensible causes, after all.”
Russell additionally defined why the sport primarily centered on minor characters from the Star Trek collection somewhat than the primary solid of Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology, saying the actors’ contracts meant it was primarily an ‘all or nothing’ deal that the sport’s funds couldn’t accommodate.
“That they had an equal pay – all of them on their contracts had an equal pay factor, so if one individual bought paid X quantity, all of them bought paid X quantity,” he defined. As a substitute, the studio “dumped all of that” in favour of solely securing Patrick Stewart as Picard and filling the remainder of the sport’s solid with much less well-known characters.
Star Trek: Elite Drive 2 bought poorly, leading to a messy lawsuit with Activision and Star Trek IP proprietor Viacom, with Activision claiming that Viacom had left Star Trek in “stagnation” resulting in an absence of curiosity within the sport.
Viacom counter-sued and the events settled, with the Star Trek sport rights transferring to different publishers comparable to Bethesda (Star Trek: Legacy), Atari (Star Trek On-line) and Paramount Digital Leisure (Star Trek DAC).
Silent Hill 2 remake studio Bloober Workforce is presently engaged on Star Trek: Shadow Frontier, a “psychological thriller” Star Trek sport starring Ro Laren, the character performed by Michelle Forbes in Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology and Star Trek: Picard.
