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Star Trek: Bridge Commander

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Star Trek: Bridge Commander
Star Trek: Bridge Commander cover
Developers
Totally Games
Publishers
Activision
Engines
NetImmerse
Release dates
Windows February 27, 2002
Reception
Metacritic 82
IGDB 82
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control, Menu-based, Voice control
Genres Action, Adventure, Simulation, Strategy, Vehicle combat
Vehicles Space flight
Art styles Realistic
Themes Sci-fi, Space
Series Star Trek
Star Trek: Bridge Commander on HowLongToBeat
Star Trek: Bridge Commander on IGDB
Star Trek: Bridge Commander guide on StrategyWiki
Star Trek: Bridge Commander on MobyGames
Star Trek: Bridge Commander on Wikipedia
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Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy 1986
Star Trek: The Rebel Universe 1987
Star Trek: First Contact 1988
Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Transinium Challenge 1989
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier 1989
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary 1992
Star Trek: Judgment Rites 1993
Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity 1995
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Harbinger 1996
Star Trek: Klingon 1996
Star Trek: Borg 1996
Star Trek: Generations 1997
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1997
Star Trek Pinball 1998
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Klingon Honor Guard 1998
Star Trek: The Game Show 1998
Star Trek: Starship Creator (series)
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Birth of the Federation 1999
Star Trek: Starfleet Command (series)
Star Trek: Hidden Evil 1999
Star Trek: Armada (series)
Star Trek: ConQuest Online 2000
Star Trek: Klingon Academy 2000
Star Trek: New Worlds 2000
Star Trek: Elite Force (series)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Fallen 2000
Star Trek: Away Team 2001
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Dominion Wars 2001
Star Trek: Bridge Commander 2002
Star Trek: Legacy 2006
Star Trek DAC 2009
Star Trek Online 2010
Star Trek (2013) 2013
Star Trek Timelines 2016
Star Trek: Bridge Crew 2017
Star Trek Adversaries 2018
Star Trek: Legend‪s‬ 2021
Star Trek Fleet Command 2021
Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova 2022
Star Trek: Resurgence 2023
Star Trek: Infinite 2023

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Star Trek: Bridge Commander is a sci-fi action-adventure game with simulation, strategy, and vehicle combat elements. It was developed by Totally Games on the NetImmerse engine, and published by Activision. The game is set aboard a starship which the player can control directly or by issuing commands to their crew, and can be played from two perspectives; a third-person external view of the ship, or a first-person view of the player on the ship's bridge.

Bridge Commander has a single-player story campaign mode, a "QuickBattle" mode (allowing for custom battle scenarios), and a multiplayer mode with both online and LAN connectivity.

Star Trek: Bridge Commander was physically released in North America on February 27, 2002 and Europe on March 8, 2002. It received generally positive reviews from critics, holding an average score of 82 on Metacritic. The game received a Version 1.1 Patch which fixed various issues in the game and added the ability for multiplayer server hosts to ban players (optionally by IP). Totally Games also released an SDK, giving players access to various tools, scripts, documents, and tutorials to make it easier to modify and add to the game. Consequent to this, the game went on to develop a rich modding scene.

The game has been made available for purchase through GOG.com on September 8, 2021.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
A demo version is available.

Essential improvements

Official patches

  • Patch 1.1 is the latest official version, including minor fixes, a multiplayer lobby ban function, and a fix for the E6M5 mission where a crucial mission trigger failed to activate.

Visible mouse cursor

DirectInput is deprecated in recent Windows versions. If the game's cursor is not visible in the UI, use dinput.dll from here.

Skip intro videos

Skip intro
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\data\Movies
  2. Delete or rename the following files: Activision.bik, BCLogo.bik, Opening.bik, Paramount.bik, TG.bik.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\options.cfg[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\saves[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

Graphics menu screenshot
Graphics menu screenshot

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Supports the following resolutions: 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200. Forcing widescreen output through config file results in stretched output and UI scaling issues.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Can be added through mods
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Audio

Sound settings menu screenshot.
Sound settings menu screenshot.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
SFX Volume, Voice Volume, and Music Volume.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Enabled by default.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Retail only; download for GOG.com version.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
8 Versus
Online play
8 Versus
GameSpy services have been shut down;[1] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

Ports

No port information; you can edit this page to add it.
This game does not support Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for automatic port configuration.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer GameSpy

Modifications

Bridge Commander: Remastered

Aims to create a screen-accurate and canon compliant enhancement of Bridge Commander that greatly expands the combat options in Quick Battles while also allowing for a completely playable and enhanced Single-Player story.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95 OSR2, 98, ME, 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 300 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 750 MB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.0a compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 8.0a or higher compatible sound card


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References