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It's fun to be a Klingon

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Well, I had bought this game years ago, but was missing some CD's. So I decided to buy it again. The game is kinda cool. You are the captian of a bird of pray, how cool. You can cloak your ship, transfer power to repairs, and fire primary and seconary weapons. When you take on a star ship, it can take a little skill getting your targeting lined up. The star ships move all over the place fast.
This is an older game and you may have some problems with graphics, for me it is on the start-up page. Over-all it is a good game, especially if you like Star Trek and the Klingons

My husband's favourite, it appears . . .

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you were to ask my husband what his favourite game was, he would say Star Trek Klingon Academy. I admit, I don't know very much about Star Trek, nor do I care to know; however, the game does seem to have a certain appeal for my husband that goes beyond the ordinary requisites of fandom. As he is not the type to really go out and buy a bunch of Star Trek junk, or even games, I'd say his love for this game is clearly genuine. He has played this game more than once over and doesn't seem to get enough of it, much to the wife's chagrin. Haha.

Perhaps the most customized game... ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Although there's nothing much more to say than what earlier reviews have already covered, one thing that should be mentioned about Klingon Academy is it's 'modability', that is, the ability for players to make and download customized ships, screens, star systems, and other game components. There are literally thousands of ships available from all of the five main Star Trek series (TOS, TMP, TNG, DS9, Voy & Ent), fan based designs, and ships from Babylon 5, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, etc, etc, etc. For me, this has been a 2½-year gaming experience, as new modifications are constantly being made by the KlingonAcademy.com Modding Community. It still amazes me that this 3+-year-old game is still gaining new fans, with a growing and thriving online community...

klingon Academy Awards

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Without a doubt Klingon Academy is the academy awards winner of the star trek games. Interplay should come out with a sequel, and call it Klingon Academy 11. Please keep the same interface, controls. Could make millions. thank you, Romeo H Faison.

Very good Klingon combat game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Klingon Academy is essentially a ship-to-ship combat game set in the Klingon Empire during the period immediately preceding the ST film "The Undiscovered Country". The graphics are very good for a game of this vintage (2000), and the atmosphere is very Klingon. The cinematics and animations are excellent, many of them consisting of extended film sequences featuring Christopher Plummer (the actor who played General Chang in the aforementioned film). The game doesn't contain as many options as later titles, but in exchange for that you get the only game that really lets you be a Klingon (instead of pretending to fly a Klingon ship in simulation, which other ST combat titles generally have you do). In some ways, the game feels like a predecessor to "Bridge Commander" because much of your ordering and functioning is funnelled through your bridge crew.

Fair warning that the game is very hard if you try to do everything manually -- the ship is hard to fly using the keyboard or a mouse. Perhaps in a concession to this, the game features a tactical "gunnery chair" option whereby you can order your helmsman to handle the flying while you concentrate on targeting and shooting -- and the chair sight follows the target by swinging around so that you can target well from weapons banks at various arcs (often not very useful, actually, in many Klingon ship designs where the weapon distribution is very, um, "top-heavy" towards the front of the ship).

In all, a very entertaining, at times very challenging, game. Not up to the level of the more recent combat titles, but still very entertaining indeed.

Decent combat simulation

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Prior to Star Trek DS9: Dominion Wars, this game was certainly the best Trek game out there. The POV combat proved excellent. However, the game includes few options. Progression through the game can become sterile and redundant; and the game itself comes in the form of 6 CD's, making it very cumbersome.

DARE TO SHOW YOUR HONOUR AS A WARRIOR!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

My wife got me this for Christmas and it is loads of fun. I always told her I was a Klingon in human form and tried to persuade her to let us have a Klingon wedding...she didn't go for it...I think the fresh gagh would have put off people at the reception...

Excellently conceived and brilliant graphics - BUT you will need power to utilise them properly. I have a P800 and GFORCE 2MX200 card which usually does fine. The only problems I have graphics-wise are when Romulan ships start venting plasma.

The in-between mission "movies" are nice and contain some good motivation from General Chang.

However, a couple of the missions are baffling playability-wise. The reconnoitring of the treasonous Klingon vessel without being discovered is VERY hard, and I still haven't figured out planetary bombardment.

Still, it will raise the blood in all true warriors.

Note: though he is not credited, that HAS to be Michael Dorn voicing Commander Thok Mak.

Great Game for the Star Trek Fan

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This Game is one the Best Star Trek games i've played so far. I would recommend this to anyone who has a 700 Mhz or more computer. The Bad part about this one is that you can get tired of it after playing it for a couple of months. Anyone who dosen't have much gaming experience, get this Game!!

One of the best

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Several reasons why this game is one of the best Capital Ship combat sims out there

1.You can regulate virtualy every aspect of your ships(tractor, transporter, warp, sickbay, engineering, etc)

2.It feels like a Starship-to-Starship simulator (unlike ST:Invasion for PS which completely clashes with the Trek philosophy by offering a poor fighter-to-fighter sim)

3.It is so hugely detailed, you can blow major sections off of any ship and see the different decks, fire on the warp engines and watch the plasma drain away as they lose warp capability(personal favorite). There is an outside view where you can see your ship in great detail

4.There are so many different types of enviornments (deep space(duh),nebula, Gas giants, M-Class worlds, solar coronas, the perimiter of a black hole, etc)

5. New ships. There plenty of new ships for the Klingons, Starfleet, and the Romulans. There are a few new races as well.

The list goes on

If you are wondering why I gave it 4 instead of 5 stars, it's because the events take place in the days of The Original Series and not like the times of the "present day" Star Trek. But this game is so great and at such a low price, you cant loose. It was designed to use the joystick in conjunction with the keyboard. Make sure you have a good joystick though(the game plays horribly with a mouse)

Great game - but download the patch

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is alot of fun to play and unlike "Starfleet Academy", your ship does not move like a fighter and you really do command your ship like it is a large spacecraft. The damage effects are great! You can poke holes in the enemy's hull, knock out crucial subsystems and blow off warp nacelles.

The single player campaign is OK but it is not that rigid. It will allow you to make bad command decisions and still finish the missions. I spend alot of time playing with the Quick Battle simulator. This is where you can command any ship, pick your opponents and choose your battle environment which is really alot of fun. I enjoy luring Klingon warships into a planetary ring to watch them bounce off of the ring's ice boulders while trying to attack my starship!

Remember, KA is a Star Trek game, so you know it's going to have bugs. If you do not install the latest patch the game will freeze during heavy battles. This is bad since the game AI will constantly be playing "bumper cars" when it starts to lose a fight. If the enemy ship is smaller than the vessel that you are commanding, then this is more annoying than fatal.

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