Something to play to pass the wait for CM

[Guest Ol' Blood & Guts]

Have you heard of Interplay's Klingon Academy?

It's a space combat simulator featuring NOT fighters, BUT capital ships. The Demo came out a week ago and it's very cool.

Just check out these screenshots...

http://www.federationhq.net/kanews/screens/dem033.htm

http://www.federationhq.net/kanews/screens/dem025.htm

http://www.federationhq.net/kanews/screens/dem032.htm

NOW don't that look cool?

Download the Demo and I guarantee that you won't be dissapointed!

You can download it from here:

http://www.startrekcontinuum.com/recroom/kacad_prev/preview.html

It weighs in at a hefty 82MB, so be patient.

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[Compassion]

Does it handle better than SF: Acadmy? That game felt mopre and more like a fighter sim. Doens't seem right, and definately not in keeping with Star Trek to have the Enterprise barrel rolling and yo-yoing through a battle. Is the game a little toned down?

[Guest Ol' Blood & Guts]

Oh yeah, THAT was the FIRST thing they changed. Just try flying the Excelsior...it flys a little better than a Star Destroyer

In fact, when you exit out of the Demo and let the advertisement run, one of the captions mentions that specifically. Something to the effect of "Ships handle more like Captial Ships rather than Fighters"

The demo features two story driven missions against the Romulans and Gorns, a Training mission that has you flying a classic Klingon D-7 class against a Federation Freighter and then against two Federation Akula-class destroyers, one with a Bird-of-Prey escort.

It also features a Quick Battle feature where you can pick any combination of Klingon Emperor-class Heavy Battlecruisers and Federation Excelsior-class Heavy Battlecruisers. The Emperor-class is the ship that is featured in the third screenshot above.

The full version's Quick Battle will allow you to pit any of the 40+ ships in the game against one another.

Interplay has taken all customer input from the dissapointment of Star Fleet Academy and has made the *ultimate* Space-Combat Sim to date!

*Hint, Hint* My signature comes from the game's intro movie.

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"Cry Woe...Destruction...Ruin and Decay. The worst is Death...and Death will have His day."--Gen. Chang

[Colin]

OB&G do you work for these people?

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[Guest Ol' Blood & Guts]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Colin:

OB&G do you work for these people?

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Nah, this has just been a game I've been waiting for the past 6 months or so and the Demo came out last week.

Besides, I figured that instead of going insane waiting for CM, to just go and do/play something else.

Just like Steve said in another thread.

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"Cry Woe...Destruction...Ruin and Decay. The worst is Death...and Death will have His day."--Gen. Chang

[Lee]

Interplay also did a fantastic job on Star Trek: Starfleet Command.

Kligon Academy is more like a first person perspective with you

on the bridge and handling the controls yourself. While

Starfleet Command has you commanding your ship (or even fleet)

from a 3/4 overhead perspective (you can zoom and adjust the camera

much like in CM) while you issue orders for movement, firing

weapons, sending boarding parties over to attack the enemy's ship,

repairing systems, etc. Klingon Academy is like a flight simulator

while Starfleet Command is like a tactical starship wargame.

Interplay makes the best Star Trek computer games and I'm looking

forward to trying out Klingon Academy.