Raven Software has announced an official add-on pack for Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force, the Quake III-engine first-person shooter released for the Mac and PC last year. The add-on pack will include two new single-player campaigns, 17 additional multiplayer maps, 12 new models, two new game mods and a Tour mode which lets players explore an interactive 3D recreation of Voyager's interior, complete with unrestricted access to 15 decks of the ship, many functional systems and the ability to talk and interact with the entire Voyager crew. A Mac version has yet to be confirmed; the publisher of the Mac version of Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force, Aspyr Media, was unavailable for comment. [updated]

The official Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force add-on pack will offer players a variety of diverse gameplay experiences. For the first time ever, trekkers will be able to explore an interactive 3D recreation of Voyager's interior in Tour Mode. Once aboard, players will have unrestricted access to 15 decks of the ship, including the bridge, officer quarters, holodecks, the transporter room, Hazard Team crew quarters, sickbay, astrometrics, the shuttlebay and engineering. Additionally, many of the ship's systems and all of the crew will be interactive. Players can perform complex tasks like initiating Voyager's self-destruct sequence or shutting down the warp core, along with finding secret items hidden objectives, and mini-games. Once players finish touring the ship, they can hone their Hazard Team skills in two new single player campaigns - a Captain Proton holo-novel and an assault on a Klingon compound.

Multiplayer also benefits from the new add-on pack with 17 additional multiplayer maps and 12 new models. The Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force add-on will also feature two new game mods. In a new class-based team game, players will be able to select a character class (i.e. security, medical, engineering…) with unique skill bonuses to complement their style of play. Additionally, in the assimilate mode, a group of players have to neutralize a lone Borg invader before they become assimilated.

Raven Software's Mike Gummelt has updated his .plan with more details on the multiplayer additions in the add-on pack...

Okay, here are some details of some of the stuff that's been added to multiplayer:

Assimilation - Federation vs. Borg. The Borg have a Borg projectile weapon, a taser weapon and can assimilate Federation members. They also have a short personal transporter ability and adaptive shields. The I-Mod can get through these shields. The object for the Borg is to Assimilate the entire Federation team, the object for the Federation team is to kill the Borg Queen.

Elimination - Basically, the last man standing wins. In Team Holomatch mode, the first team to be wiped out loses.

Action Hero (name tentative) - One player starts with all the weapons, the others don't. The person who kills the Action Hero respawns with all the weapons and is the new "Action Hero".

Disintegration - All players start with the compression rifle and every hit is a disintegration. This may be used in FFA, Team Holomatch, CTF and Elimination.

Specialties - Each player chooses a class from 6 available:

• Infiltrator (Munro) - Fast, can jump high, has Phaser. Has emergency transporter device. Has no armor.
  
• Medic (Jurot) - Starts with Phaser, Hypo and Medkit. Can heal with hypo or kill with hypo (alt-fire). Has decent armor and regeneration.
  
• Heavy Weapons (Biessman) - Starts with Quantum Burst and Tetrion Disruptor. Is somewhat slower than other classes. Has full armor.
  
• Sniper (Telsia) - Starts with I-Mod and Compression Rifle. Is the only one of the classes that can use zoom feature. Has holodecoy. Has weak armor.
  
• Demolitionist (Chang) - Starts with Scavenger Rifle, Grenade Launcher and Detpack. Has half armor.
  
• Technician (Chell) - Starts with Phaser, Arc Welder and Portable Force Field. Has Seeker as well. Can drop an ammo station and can make someone invisible by "using" them (only once per life). Has half armor.
  
  

Other additions:

You can now have turrets, breakable brushes and objectives in multiplayer games.

by MacNN Staff