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 printed by Activision and developed by Ritual Leisure, which had beforehand labored on SiN.
The sport has gamers taking over the function of Starfleet lieutenant Alexander Munro, who’s made chief of a newly created Hazard Group by Captain Picard.
Munro, typically assisted by different Hazard Group 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 Dog and labored as a sport designer on Uncharted 1-3 and The Final of Us – defined that the sport’s plot was initially speculated to be a few terror assault on Starfleet Academy, earlier than real-world occasions pressured a redesign.
“I keep in mind we had been making Elite Drive 2, and 9/11 occurred at the moment,” Russell recalled. “One of many unique scenes was, if you had been at Starfleet Academy, it was speculated to get an assault.
“We really had a shuttle fly right into a constructing and stuff like that. Effectively, that was a no-no, for comprehensible causes, in fact.”
Russell additionally defined why the sport primarily centered on minor characters from the Star Trek collection reasonably than the principle forged of Star Trek: The Subsequent Era, saying the actors’ contracts meant it was basically an ‘all or nothing’ deal that the sport’s finances 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 forged with much less well-known characters.
Star Trek: Elite Drive 2 offered 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 shifting to different publishers reminiscent of Bethesda (Star Trek: Legacy), Atari (Star Trek On-line) and Paramount Digital Leisure (Star Trek DAC).
Silent Hill 2 remake studio Bloober Team is currently working 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 Era and Star Trek: Picard.