Star Trek: Klingon Academy

List Price: $54.95 Discount Price: $19.90

Features:

• Great music, graphics, and Klingon atmosphere
• Beautiful starship destruction
• Classic Klingon politics drive the missions, linked by entertaining filmed sequences
• Command interface makes it feel like you're commanding an entire crew
• Up to 6 Players in IPX or TCP/IP.

Accessories:

PC Gamer (1-year)

Customer Reviews:

Very good Klingon combat game [Posted on 2003-02-15]
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.

klingon Academy Awards [Posted on 2003-07-13]
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.

Perhaps the most customized game... ever! [Posted on 2003-12-26]
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...

My husband's favourite, it appears . . . [Posted on 2007-10-01]
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.

It's fun to be a Klingon [Posted on 2008-05-31]
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

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