Gamers not familiar with the television show on which Star Trek: Deep Space Nine -- Dominion Wars is based, may be a bit puzzled since names of individual people, alien races, ships, political alliances, and other pertinent elements are used regularly without any real explanation. This gives some indication of the intended audience (fans of Star Trek and its many iterations in general) and, in turn, provides some idea of why it's not much fun. 'Trekkies' are a loyal bunch, guaranteeing that many will buy the computer game (or book or movie) simply for that reason, and with the dirge of unsatisfying games bearing the franchise label, Dominion Wars will quickly be just one more disappointment to pile on the ever-growing heap of space junk. The game enforces the question of why is it seemingly so hard to develop a solid Star Trek video game? Dominion Wars is hampered first and foremost by the very odd and unsatisfying method of controlling your ships. Although the universe is presented in three fabulous dimensions, you can only travel through two of them.

It's a situation comparable to being on a tiny day cruiser that pulls up next to a Carnival Cruise ocean behemoth -- the really fancy stuff is right there before your eyes, but you're not going to get any of it. Drivers Jbl 2426. Obviously, creating a RTS game in three dimensions would be unbelievably complicated to design, let alone play, so perhaps the creators can be excused. But, teasing you by offering a look into three dimensions from a perspective behind your ship or fleet, and then permitting you to travel on only one plane, eliminates the potential excitement of real-time maneuvering. The 20 missions provided for the solo player are linear, yet suffer from a lack of continuity. People who are killed in one scenario show up in the next. Although you can play from the perspective of either the Federation or the Dominion side, all missions have a similar feel to previous space-borne games and offer no areas to go 'where no man has gone before.'