To compliment today's Star Trek Online feature and official blog update, we present five recently released screenshots from Cryptic Studios foray into the Trek universe.

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The Klingon looks kind skinny :[

Originally posted by Precusor

The Klingon looks kind skinny :[

Skinny, as well as kinda "plastic".

Cryptic is doing a real bad job on the graphics. For the 1st Sci-Fi series ever, and being the longest running Sci-Fi series, and having the largest fan base, I expected at least some more realistic graphics. If you ask me, the graphics used by Cryptic looks more like that from the Marvel comic books, rather than that of THE leading Sci-Fi merchandice around :'( (smilies are broken in Opera ATM...)

THE leading Sci Fi? I somewhat doubt that as I am just about certain that Star Wars has a larger fan base. Thx for the concern tho.

Not bad, not impressive either.  I hope this is ingame screenshots and not artist rendition.

I am so looking forward to this game.I have been a star trek fan since I used to observe my father watching the tv series when i was a very small child. I am not crazy for it though. The one thing I hope is that this does not look like Hellgate London or Tabula Rasa. Both games looked good in screenshots or so called screenshots but when I played the games I could almost puke. Sorry, I am a graphics enthusiast. I In this modern age of computer and graphics power there is no excuse MMO or otherwise to make a game that looks unrealistic. The excuse that we need to make a game for all types of computers is obsolete.  I can make a pretty good computer myself for $400 or less that plays any game out there at mediums setting or above if  I get a good deal on a graphica card. So please people UPGRADE!!! Anyway I am still rooting for Cryptic. PLEASE GET IT RIGHT. :) Ciao

The graphics look fine to me and I think they are doing a good job. To each their own and if some don't like what they see then they don't have to play. It is just that simple.

Yeah, I am not sure I dig it. It's hyper-colored like a styalized game. I guess I just don't think cartoon when I think Star-Trek, I think realistic and stencled shadows. I think of fantastic cityscapes and focus on ships and locations. Granted you can't follow the shows asthetic for a video game, but I dunno.. it's feeling reminicent of Stargate to me. And Starwars... what is it? They all seems to have a simmilar asthetic quality.

  I tend to love the direction Cryptic is taking with this games graphics. I have a few gripes with the artistic direction but overall I 'm loving the flexibility Im seeing. I've seen every degree of variation imaginable. Take for instance that somewhat skiny Klingon. If I remember correctly there were some very skrawny klingons in a few storylines. Runts. So take the picture with a grain of salt because I can show pictures of big muscular ones as well.

  As for Miknets claim, I disagree. Go for instance to the Citiesxl.com forum. Look at the systems specs poll. Hell, go to any game forum and check out the system specs of a average gamer. Most of them are still using early 2 cores or late one core systems. I see a slew of AMD +3200 out there with 2 gigs playing all of the new games out there. Simply put, there customers have chosen or simply cant afford new systems. The gamers which Cryptic is targeting simply dont have the oomph to run what Miknet wants.

  I suppose someday someone will make a game targetted to higher end gamers. Such as what AoC tried to do. Doing it well and succeding is going to be tough as hell though!

Except for possibly the last one (the guys in the big room) these are not "screenshots" of the game, these are just renders staged in 3D Studio Max or Maya or whatever graphic development package they're using.  They grabbed some of the game models like the ships and the Klingon, and posed them in a scene / terrain generator.   It's obvious the Klingon was posed manually.

So yeah the ships and character models will look like that, but the Gameworld you see on your monitor when you play will Not look like that.

I dunno, the word that comes to mind when i see STO pics is: retro.  All the crisp hard edges remind me of the old days before bump mapping and shaders which gives pics an organic look.  Yes stylized graphics save bandwidth and decreases both client and server latency but still somehow it just... doesn't look right.  I guess if they get the gameplay right it won't matter.  much.

I think it looks great. I for one am GLAD its not realistic graphics. Since... its.. not real.. and a game. it's fine =)

the only pic that looks like its from in game is the one of the klingons. the rest of these "screen shots" look like concept art to me. am i wrong? if not, why even bother posting those?

Not overly excited about the graphics so far, but if thats needed to stop lag in PvP battles then so be it.

The devs have mentioned before with previous shots that they are all ingame, with very little editing.

I think all the shots look great except that Klingon shot. They look strange and the trees and terrain in the background look like a watercolor painting at best. I won't diss the game because of it, though. I'm still so hella excited about this it's crazy.

I much prefer to see a more stylized and colourful version of Star-trek than an over-realistic version, EQ2 suffered greatly due to being too realistic with it characters and mobs, ppl wanted pure fantasy in their art, same should apply to this game, it's pure Sci/Fi fantasy and as such should be reflected in the art direction.

So I'm very happy with the direction the game is going, I will undoubtedly end up giving this game a go, along with all the others on my ever growing list of MMO's.

Remember cryptic cheats their screenshots. They set the quality well beyond any computer can handle for these screenies.

The textures on the ships look like poo.  No detail at all.  The ships look like concept art.