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Reviewed by: Jonathan Dreyer, MGA Editor In Chief
You are a Tirron envoy of the elite Federation diplomatic Corps. Joining forces with the crew of Deep Space Nine, you battle deadly unmanned drones. Track down a murderer on the space station and match strategies with mysterious aliens. All in a struggle to save a Gamma Quadrant race from annihilation and prevent the Deep Space Nine Space Station from suffering the same fate!
Gameplay
This is a first person perspective adventure game. You can move around, open doors, fire phasers, etc.. Beyond that, there are mini games in like manning a phaser to defend the station these use different interfaces. I found moving around in the first person perspective slow, and annoying, besides that the interface is great for the game.There are many different scenes, people and objects to interact in. You choose the choice for what Envoy says. You decide the fate of the Station, as you travel through the station and alien worlds.
Graphics and Sound
Harbinger has many cut-scenes with full 3D graphics, that not only look great, but ran silky smooth on my Performa. As for the gameplay graphics, they were wonderful, fully 3D and beautiful to look at. The scenes in the game were just like the TV show's sets.The characters in the game were also very good, looking just like there real life counter-parts.
The background sound in Harbinger is excellent, the *EXACT* same as the background sound you hear in episodes of DS9. The hum of the power generators, rumblings in the station. The sound effects in Harbinger are OK, not great, but OK. Some of the sounds are pretty good like the phaser firing, but some are fake sounding like the turbo lift doors opening.
Interface, Difficulty, & Replayability
The first person perspective interface of Harbinger is great graphic wise, but slow and annoying gameplay wise.
Harbinger like all adventure games is challenging, there are hard puzzles to solve and easy puzzles. What sets Harbinger apart are the arcade mini games like defending the station against a drone attack, these make Harbinger much more enjoyable than other adventure games I've played recently like ST:TNG A Final Unity.
Harbinger like practically all Adventure games has zero replayability factor, nothing'll change the second time you play, it'll be the exact same as the first time you played.
Overall
Overall I enjoyed this game, it was challenging, fresh, and visually pleasing. If somebody asked whether I would recommend this game to them because they were considering it, I would. What I wouldn't do is recommend this game to somebody who isn't considering it themselves.