I guess all the money it took to get Plummer to reprise his role was taken from making the game playable. And here's a little note of humor: Even though I had to do the work of an entire crew, on one mission I couldn't choose the order of attacking three Federation vessels.
I was cloaked and wanted to score some hits on the warship that I knew could do me some serious damage. But the computer would not let me target it! I was forced to start with some tiny ships that posed no threat at all.
By the time the computer lets you target your only real opposition, they have their shields up and are coming at your uncloaked as in you have to fire uncloaked butt full tilt. How much easier it would have been to just pop the warship first and then mop up the smaller ones later. So there I was commanding the entire ship, but not able to pick my order of targets. I don't hate Star Trek: Klingon Academy. I don't like it either. Despite some promising features, the game is wholly too complicated and does not honor the great Klingon Empire.
How to run this game on modern Windows PC? Contact: , done in 0. While it's always great to find a challenging game which takes weeks of perseverance to complete, there does need to be some semblance of balance, and that's exactly what KA lacks. Each mission takes, on average, about half an hour. This is not necessarily a bad thing if the game isn't too challenging, but is totally infuriating if it's simply too hard. It's not a problem when it happens with end missions, but having to replay the first few over and over again can be the most off putting thing in the world.
You spend 25 minutes on it, only to die right at the end. Then it's back to the beginning again. It's the type of annoyance that could well put many of you off early on. Klingon Academy is no ordinary space combat game. Rather than controlling a fighter, you are in charge of an entire cruiser and its crew. Along the bottom of the screen are the numbers one to nine, each one corresponding to a section of your ship eg helm, engineering, weapons etc.
Before, during and after a battle, you must issue orders to these departments, so that your vessel can function as efficiently as possible. It's a nice idea, with just one simple draw back. It doesn't work. KA tries to be two things in one, and unfortunately fails on both counts. Rather than concentrating purely on the tactical side of space combat, it tries to be a space shooter with tactical elements. However, because the ships are so large, move so slowly and are subject to Newtonian physics, the space battles are slow and cumbersome.
Just finding the enemy can be a chore. To make matters worse though, it's a total nightmare trying to issue orders to your crew during a dogfight. You end up looking down at your keyboard and back to the screen to find the right combination of buttons to issue your order and then back at your keyboard to execute the command. Of course, by this time, the enemy have flown out of view and destroyed half your ship. Not even the hot keys help that much. You also get the option of just controlling your ship's weapons while your helmsman does the flying, but even this is a bit on the dull side.
Of course, it's not all bad, far from it in fact. Enemy AI is excellent, and you'll often see them using evasive manoeuvres, even on the easiest difficulty settings. The game's sound effects are excellent and the music rousing. The story line is gripping and well acted. Briefings are in depth and rarely are you in any doubt as to what your objectives are. Then there are the tactical possibilities like flying backwards, using space terrain such as planetary rings to your advantage and utilising your cloaking abilities to launch surprise attacks on unsuspecting enemy vessels.
If you or enemy shields drop, then boarding becomes an option as a means of taking over a ship. You're given a huge diversity of ships to fly, plenty of weapons to fire, and even an Internet Deathmatch mode. Then of course there's the accurate reproduction of the Klingon race, which is developed even further by this game. That is the question for those of you not quite so keen on the Star Trek universe. KA does offer something new, but it's far too laboured an affair for us to recommend over the likes of FreeSpace 2 or StarLancer.
If you're a Star Trek fanatic, you should find plenty to enjoy here. As for the rest of you, you just need to ask yourself if you want to play a slow paced, hugely difficult space combat game about Klingons, but one which, with perseverance, can be very rewarding. Perhaps General Chang would have summed it up with a Shakespeare paraphrase. Hath not a gamer hands, organs Preferences, dislikes? Interest us, do we not buy your game? Challenge us, do we not persevere? Bore us, do we not seek a refund?
To buy or not to buy? That is the question. Hey Admins, sorry to say this but the KA. ICD file seems to have a Ymacco Trojan on it as very time I try to install or play the game, my antivirus picks that up.
Kane Tombs 1 point. SN 1 point. Getting a virus warning: Wacatac. I usually trust things from this site. Caractus 2 points. Wow, what a find. I logged hundreds of hours on this game.
One of the most underrated space sims in my experience, because of the use of capital ships and the tactics needed owing to their slow speed the larger ones and the use of cloaking tech among the various Klingon ships. The simulator mode is terrific. This version works like a charm in Win10 so far. Never had any luck before with the 7 CD version, or the.
Graphics were always glitchy. Play the campaign first -- it allows you to use those wins in the simulator, and you can watch Christopher Plummer chew through the scenery! Share your gamer memories, help others to run the game or comment anything you'd like.
We may have multiple downloads for few games when different versions are available. I cant believe I will have to purchase a secondary PC with Windows 98 in order to play this game again! I still have my CDs but its been over ten years since I was able to play it. I've tried everything to make the game work on Win 10 but just cant. Did Starfleet Command and Academy not sell well on Gog and other platforms? Unbelievable that no one has brought back Klingon Academy!
The Skirmish battles could be epic and there were mods to get new ships even non-ST ones. Come on guys Make it So. Now with all the downloads from the net. Iso files. When I was a kid I couldn't afford this game. Now as an adult I can't find it : please bring it to GOG. Thought I had got my old copy working with a patch but the whole thing goes to pot when I move! Come on GOG I am dying to replay this. One of the better Star Trek games out there.
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