Star Trek: Hidden Evil - Reception

Reception

The IGN review said that the cut scenes in the game were "well done but a bit grainy", but criticised the complexity of the puzzles and thought that it was too short, referring to it as merely a game demo. He gave the game an average score of four out of ten, which included a mark of one out of ten for lasting appeal. GameSpot described the character animations during dialogue sequences as "singularly unimpressive", but thought that the variety of the first part of the game was good. However, it said that it "plummets like a rock" once the player departs Ba'ku. It described the combat sequences as "uniformly uninteresting" and thought that the game left the gamer with a "bad taste in their mouths that's likely to linger for a long time."

Joshua Mintzer played the game for website Adventure Classic Gaming, and compared it to Star Trek: The Next Generation – A Final Unity. He thought that while A Final Unity seemed grand in scope, Hidden Evil seemed more like a Star Trek comic book. Mintzer described Hidden Evil as "2,891 phaser shots connected by some irrelevant puzzles". He thought the game seemed rushed and thought it made a mockery of the earlier and better Star Trek games such as A Final Unity and Star Trek: Judgment Rites. Carl Nguyen for Allgame praised the graphics in the game, saying that they were "some of the best graphics for a third person adventure game, with smooth motion-captured animation and odd but beautiful scenery." However, he also criticised the replay value of the game saying that "don't count on playing Star Trek: Hidden Evil a second time unless you're really bored."