{"id":1007746,"date":"2026-08-18T02:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T02:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1007746\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T02:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T02:41:19","slug":"star-trek-elite-force-2-had-to-change-its-plot-due-to-9-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1007746\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek Elite Force 2 Had To Change Its Plot Due To 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"

Star Trek: Elite Force 2<\/a> is a very fun first-person shooter that arrived on PC in June 2002. While it might have been a commercial flop at the time, it has gone on to become a fan-favorite Star Trek game featuring a nice mix of puzzles, action, and dialogue. But the game would have been a whole lot different if the terrorist attacks against the United States hadn\u2019t happened on September 11, 2001.<\/p>\n

In a new interview with <\/a>FRVR<\/a>, Star Trek: Elite Force 2 lead scripter and level designer Benson Russell explained that during the development of the game, the story and opening of the game had to change in a big way due to the attacks on 9\/11.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember, we were making Elite Force 2, and 9\/11 happened at that time,\u201d Russell told FRVR. \u201cOne of the original scenes was, when you were at Starfleet Academy, it was supposed to get an attack, and we actually had a shuttle fly into a building and stuff like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

As you might expect, Elite Force 2 arriving less than a year after September 11 meant that all of that content had to be cut or reworked entirely. \u201cWell, that was a no-no\u00a0for understandable reasons, of course,\u201d said Russell.<\/p>\n

Despite the cuts and changes, Elite Force 2 became a popular Star Trek game that people still talk about fondly to this day. And they should, because it\u2019s a great FPS powered by id Tech 3 that any fan of that era of Star Trek should play, if only because you get some wonderful, low-poly Picard moments. And yes, he\u2019s voiced by Patrick Stewart.<\/p>\n

Famously, Rockstar Games found itself in a similar situation around this time. Its 2001 game, Grand Theft Auto 3, was set in a contemporary New York City-like open world, and so the studio had to make numerous changes<\/a>, including making the police cars look less like actual NYPD vehicles as planned and more generic. Interestingly, 9\/11 also forced Rockstar to change the cover of GTA 3 before launch in the United States. (The European release used the cover art originally planned.<\/a>) That cover became so iconic and popular that it ended up establishing the style that all GTA covers would follow to this day. Even the upcoming GTA 6 cover follows that same grid-based look created back in 2001 in response to 9\/11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star Trek: Elite Force 2 is a very fun first-person shooter that arrived on PC in June 2002.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1007747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[79462,403398,42669,158,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1007746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-9-11","tag-gta-3","tag-star-trek","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117114207529045368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1007747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}