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Star Trek: Hidden Evil

22 November 19996.1/ 10 · 12 votesTeen2

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About

Hidden Evil is a third-person action-adventure in the same style as Resident Evil, which means you move your character using the keyboard, environments consists of 3D polygon characters transposed onto 2D pre-rendered scenes, and gameplay consists of both puzzles and combat. Rather than focusing on intense, hardcore action or puzzles, the game was designed with more casual gamers in mind with fairly straightforward gameplay.

The game's story takes place shortly after the movie Star Trek: Insurrection. After the defeat of S'ona captain Ru'afo and the destruction of the Metaphasic Collector, the remaining S'ona agreed to peacefully co-exist with their Ba'ku breathren and establish a colony on the Immortality Planet. During the construction of the colony, S'ona and Ba'ku workers uncovered underground ruins belonging to a previously undiscovered ancient civilization. Captain Picard, known for his love of archeology, arrives along with android Commander Data to research the ruins.

You take the role of Ensign Sovok, a human raised by Vulcans. You are assigned to assist Captain Picard in his exploration of the ruins, which is a big break for you since you're aiming for a transfer to the prestigious Enterprise rather than your current assignment near the Ba'ku planet in the middle of nowhere.

However, the excavation of the ruins takes a turn for the worse when S'ona rebels seize control of the colony. Fired upon by the S'ona, Picard is teleported by an alien device to an ancient installation deep within the planet's core. While Data remains behind to deal with the S'ona, you are sent into the planet's core to retrieve Picard.

The "Hidden Evil" of the game comes into play when you encounter Xa'atal, last surviving member of the alien race. Xa'tal is an ancient scientist whose life has been sustained for all these years by the same Metaphasic Radiation which keeps the Ba'ku people eternally young. Although Xa'tal herself quickly befriends you, her tainted DNA contains the code for creating a deadly biological organism known as the Xenophore Seed.

The S'ona's Romulan benefactors led by Admiral Ratok teleport into the ancient city and kill Xa'tal to create the Xenophore Seed. It then becomes your task to rescue Picard and defeat the S'ona so you can pursue Ratok and stop him before he uses the Xenophore Seed and the horrific creatures it spawns to endanger the galaxy.

Ways to play

Modes

Single player

Perspective

Third person

Languages (1)

Languageaudiosubtitlesinterface
English

Game details

Business Model

Commercial

Supported Systems/Models

x86 (32-bit)

Media Type

CD-ROM, Download

3D Graphics Cards / Accelerators Supported

3dfx (Voodoo / Voodoo Rush), 3dfx (Voodoo 2 / Voodoo Banshee), 3dfx (Velocity 100/200 / Voodoo 3), ATI (Rage 128), Matrox (Millennium G200), Matrox (Millennium G400 series), Nvidia (Riva TNT), Nvidia (Riva TNT2 series), S3 (Savage3D)

Input Devices Supported/Optional

Keyboard

Number of Offline Players

1 Player

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Single-player

Save Game Methods

Internal Storage

System requirements

Min. CPU Class Required

Intel Pentium

Min. OS Class Required

Windows 95

Min. RAM Required

32 MB

Min. DirectX Version Required

DirectX 7.0

Min. CD-ROM Drive Speed Required

4X (600 KB/s)

Min. Video Memory Required

4 MB

Video Modes Supported

Full screen

Video Resolutions Supported

640×480

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Also known as

Star Trek: Der AufstandGerman title

Star Trek: InsurrectionWorking title

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Facts

Released

22 November 1999

Series

Star Trek

Platforms

PCWindows

Age ratings

ESRBTeenUSK12ACBG8+ELSPA11+SELLTP

Standing

Top 82% by visits

Official website

Tags

3rd-person (Other)Puzzle elementsSci-fi / futuristicLicensed