IGN said 'Sadly, there is no z-axis in the game' and said it detracts from the realism. Twelve multiplayer missions and three bonus missions based on the 'A Piece of the Action' episode are included as well.' IGN said the interface for ship to ship action is 'well implemented enough' and 'everything is laid out reasonably well', but 'there are really far too many buttons on the interface for my tastes.' IGN called the AI 'robust' and said damage modeling in the game is 'excellent', but said some of the ship's voice acknowledgements are bland.

Best of all there's a simple mission creator that lets you set up the engagements you'd like to see. IGN gave the game a rating of 7.8 out of 10 and said, 'There are twelve new campaigns here along with 26 skirmish missions.

On the review aggregator GameRankings, the game has an average score of 80% based on 13 reviews. Players who elected to play as one of the newly added cartels could choose between a generic campaign or a special pirate story campaign, which featured a unique story, as well as missions that touched on events that happened in Empires at War. Starfleet Command: Orion Pirates did not have a set story for the main galactic powers other than a generic campaign where a player would fight against the pirates.

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