''Star Command'' is a video game released by

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in 1988.

Plot

''Star Command'' is a game in which the player creates a crew of eight characters that complete missions from Star Command to earn credits and training for personnel. The crew can explore planets to obtain valuables, and can board disabled enemy ships to fight their crews and commandeer their ship.

Reception

The game was reviewed in 1988 in ''

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'' #138 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 4 1/2 out of 5 stars. Jim Trunzo reviewed ''Star Command'' for ''

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'' #14, rating it 5 overall. The reviewer praised the graphics as "well-done" and "functional", and the gameplay mechanics as "simple", and called the game "enjoyable" and "challenging" simulation.

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was less favorable, writing in ''

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'' that ''Star Command'' "wants to be ''

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'' or '' Sentinel Worlds'', but it isn't". He said that the "primitive graphics" were adequate, but "the problem is that there's no sense of ''experiencing'' anything. Mostly you're told about what's going on, and after a short time it seemed to me that it was a text game which consisted of" mechanical

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s. In a 1992 survey of science fiction games, ''

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'' gave the title two-plus stars of five, and a 1994 survey of strategic space games set in the year 2000 and later gave the game two stars.

Reviews

* ''

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'' #1 (January 1990) * ''

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'' - November 1989 * ''

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'' - December 1989 * '' Jeux & Stratégie'' #54

References

External links

* {{MobyGames, id=/star-command, name=''Star Command''
Review
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