Star Trek Online

After a decade of hard work and development from the devs, it's fair to say they have done a very good job in churning this very well created universe out for the fans of this iconic franchise. Yes it suffers from a zillion bugs, glitches and maintenance works, but the storylines are very much Star Trek. Lovingly narrated in painstaking detail to such a point you would get out of Earth Space Dock if you read everything on offer. The options are mind blowing to your chosen character and customising your avatar and ship can be a mission in itself taxing over the tiny complex details. Finally the visuals of the game are split down the middle which is very much like the gameplay - the ground team visuals are pretty much rough and shoddy while also recognising the vast open spaces you can run around showing off the scope of the game, the visual up in space though is the money shot. Beautiful vistas, nebulas and planetary systems drift by on-route to your next mission, along with the classic Star Trek soundtrack, music cues and iconic sound effects and you can see why 1000s of gamers sink 1000s of hours into this MMO every week. To see fellow online gamers show up at Earth Space Dock in all manner of ships and sizes is a joy and makes for a real community and for me the best Star Trek video game of all time.