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If you love Star Trek you'll love this!

First an admission....Watching the DVD was actually my first time viewing Enterprise. I'll admit that the cheesy title music and Scott Bakula (who in my mind didn't seem right as captain) was enough to prevent me trying out Enterprise when it was originally aired on UK television. I could never accuse previous Star Trek series of being cheesy and I feared that Enterprise would be just that. Oh how I was wrong! After watching TNG, DS9 and Voyager (all episodes) on DVD, I needed a Star Trek fix and Enterprise did not disappoint. Since Enterprise is the most recent series (and since Paramount don't seem to have penny pinched in producing the series) production values are excellent. A Star Trek TV series in widescreen (fantastic)! Ships look more real (both inside and out) and as for that title music I now love it (the titles themselves also show off the high production standards). The stories themselves explore Starfleet's earliest encounters with alien cultures and as always are written with sensitivity to previous series/story lines. The scripts avoid gushing sentimentality whilst retaining Star Trek's empahasis towards the moral dilemmas that explorers face when coming in to contact with vastly different cultures. Consequently they point towards the formation of a Federation/Prime Directive. Whilst individually the characters do not have the same appeal as say Worf, Quark, Data, Picard or Kirk (for example) they are all the more believable for it and remain somewhat easier to identify with. I could go on longer but would prefer to watch the show. In short, if you love Star Trek, you'll love this.

A Secret Gem of a Series - Deserving of a Much Wider Audience

Superb value for money in this collection, totalling some 90+ hours of gameplay. The graphics are strongly reminiscent of the Neverwinter Nights 2 series with the added benefit of running/playing much more fluidly on even modest systems. The graphics are beautiful and can be run on the highest detail settings on even older systems. Favouring a cooldown period, for melee skills and spells, also means that the combat in the Drakensang trilogy is less frustrating, at lower levels, whilst expanding to include plenty of variety at higher levels. The only real fly in the ointment is the difficulty of the final boss battles in the three campaigns. A completionist may find that the extreme difficulty of the end battles (in particular the two expansions which just keep throwing enemies at you) will take the cherry from the top of the detailed and enjoyable campaigns.