When we ship the game, both extremes will be happy with the results.' For this reason, we've taken a great deal of care trying to accommodate both those players who want a very slow pace, and those who want a much faster experience. The biggest challenge with this is that everyone has a different perspective on how slow a slow capital ship should be. 'There are still some discrepancies we have to iron out. We asked Ralph Hernandez, the game's producer, if he thought they had achieved the right balance between slowing down the pace while still keeping it exciting? 'I believe we are about 90 per cent there,' he says. But, at the same time, you can't slow down the action so much that it would make the game boring to play. The biggest criticism was how the ships handled, moving about like small X-Wing-style fighters, rather than the large cruisers with hundreds of crew members on board they are supposed to be. Developer 14 Degrees East, has really taken on board all the criticisms levelled at Starfleet Academy and come up with the game we all wanted in the first place. But, from what we've seen of KA so far, we can safely brush those doubts aside. With all this baggage, there's more than enough reason to be sceptical. If you cast your mind back to the two games closest to Klingon Academy you might remember that Klingon Honor Guard was a good-looking (at the time) but empty first-person shooter, while the direct predecessor of KA, Starfleet Academy, had enough flaws to fill a worm hole. Games based on the series have usually relied more on the licence than on actual gameplay.

After all, the antecedents aren't astounding.

We Couldn't Kahuessīy now, there's a good chance the non-diehard trekkies among you will be falling off your chairs with boredom and planning to turn the page very quickly. A bit like rugby union players, actually.Ī space combat sim in nature, Klingon Academy differs from your usual blast 'em up in that it accurately recreates the experience of commanding a large vessel, issuing orders to your crew members and completing assignments as a story of intrigue and deception within the Klingon Empire unfolds. In contrast with the restrained behaviour of the Starfleet crew, and almost every other race in the Trek universe, these ugly corrugated headed aliens are a bizarre combination of American high school brain-dead partygoers, honour-obsessed samurais and monstrous demons. Before the Borg came along to brighten the often dull lives of Star Trek crews the universe over, there was only one race able to break the monotony of starched uniforms, prime directives and uptight diplomacy: the Klingons.

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