If we'd looked at using polygons to do this, it would just be too big, or not detailed enough." We wanted to create rich and diverse environments that the player could explore and interact with. You can play it that way if you want to, but you won't get very far - that's not what Star Trek is all about.
Generations isn't about running around blasting things - it's not meant to be Quake. Developer Simon Ffinch explains: "We decided to go with sprites because it allowed us to be more visually creative. It's not Quake (all the characters are sprites), but it's still very impressive nevertheless because of the detailing and amount of different textures used throughout. For starters, the development team have dropped the tried and tested point-and-click style approach in favour of a first-person 3D perspective view that's just a bit akin to the classic System Shock. Generations is very different from the first TNG game. Your task, as Star Fleet goody-goody, is to stop him at all costs. Because he's essentially an evil nutter (you wouldn't expect McDowell to play anything else now, would you?), Soran is quite prepared to do absolutely anything to guide the ribbon to receive him, which means that he'll happily hop about the solar system blowing up stars (using probes containing tri-lithium) with complete gay abandon until he's on his way, with absolutely no thought for the billions of people who'll die as a result of his intergalactic pyrotechnics. To get there he must somehow guide the gateway to his location on a planet where he can hop on board and be transported to ecstasy.
An El-Aurian, Soran (played by Malcolm McDowell) is desperately trying to return to a dimension called the Nexus (a kind of ethereal Heaven). At the very beginning these are introduced by way of a pretty lengthy (though very nicely done) intro sequence that sets the scene.
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