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Star Trek Classics: Klingon

Star Trek Classics: Klingon

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: It was fun
Review: A unique experience. A rowdy band of Klingons drags you along in a well-acted movie tale of honor and revenge with a couple dozen interactive points for you to advance the action. However, before the adventure begins you must learn and be tested on 8 lessons in Klingon language and customs. The two segments take several hours each to complete.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A Unique Experience
Review: A unique experience. A rowdy band of Klingons drags you along in a well-acted movie tale of honor and revenge with a couple dozen interactive points for you to advance the action. However, before the adventure begins you must learn and be tested on 8 lessons in Klingon language and customs. The two segments take several hours each to complete.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: You have to be a hardcore fan of Star Trek, or Klingons
Review: I'd say the game is great. But I'm a fan of Klingons - I'm even learning their language.
So unless you're really interested in their culture, you might not have much fun with it - as others said, it's basically a movie, you only sit and watch.
For a game, there are far too few interaction points - mostly it's obvious what you have to do anyway.
Still, considering it's one of the few good sources of klingon culture, it's worth the buy.

A special bonus to those learning the language is the Klingon Language Lab - a vocabulary trainer. A good one. It even features a rought voice-recognition, allowing you to train your pronounciation. Video examples of Gowron speaking a word are the icing on it IMO.

Now to the bad side of it:
The graphics are mediocre at best - whoever did the digitalisation was VERY careless(resizing from 320x240 to 320x200, distorting the look slightly), so don't expect "movie quality". The MACIntosh version has better graphics, btw, so I'd go for that one if possible.
Also, the game won't run on any system than Win3.11 or Win9X . I've tried to run it on Win2K with compatibility, without, etc.. Didn't work. My guess is that the program uses some video functions that aren't supported by Win2K anymore - I got audio once, but no video.
Even if it would run, the game cannot adjust to your resolution settings - it's hardcodec on 320x200 - so it'll rest on the upper left.
Annoying, but nothing serious.
The language lab, however, DOES run on Win2K without problems. Which might be reason enough to buy it - if you are interested in tlhIngan Hol.

Bottom line:
If you like Klingons - buy it. If not - think twice about it.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: What a terrible game!
Review: I'm a big fan of the series, but anyone who has not played this, don't even bother spending your money. I bought this game today, and have already finished it! Where is the excitement? There are no battles, no fights, and really no fun. What's next? Star Trek Romulan? I hope not. I should have learned my lesson after reading "Kahless" in the "Star Trek" book series. That was also bad. Let these two things be a lesson.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: It was fun
Review: It was fun to play a Klingon and feel the honor and glory of the culture. I never thought that they had so much going for them. The adventure itself was wierd, and not much happened, but it might have been a good episode.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: A movie, nothing more.
Review: Star Trek Klingon is a short "made for TV" movie where you control the outcome. There is nothing more to it.

While the game features good direction by Frakes and at times, you do feel a part of the story, you will get bored rather quickly.

What keeps the game from being a total bust is the Klingon Language factory, where you get a chance to speak Klingon into the microphone and be graded on the pronunciation. Quite fun!

As a Star Trek Fan, this is a collector's item, but I don't find myself playing the game often.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: A movie, nothing more.
Review: Star Trek Klingon is a short "made for TV" movie where you control the outcome. There is nothing more to it.

While the game features good direction by Frakes and at times, you do feel a part of the story, you will get bored rather quickly.

What keeps the game from being a total bust is the Klingon Language factory, where you get a chance to speak Klingon into the microphone and be graded on the pronunciation. Quite fun!

As a Star Trek Fan, this is a collector's item, but I don't find myself playing the game often.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great fun for all Star Trek fans
Review: This interactive movie like game is very intertaining. You pretend to be in a holodeck Klingon training program where you advance through the game by double clicking on different possible objects or people. If you do choose wrong, the computer will put you back a few steps so you can try again. You can also stop the action and click on different objects in the room to get explanations of what they are.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A must have for any Klingon fan, female or male
Review: This interactive, multimedia, CD-ROM story-game is designed to appeal to females, primarily. The idea of the game is not to beat the game as quickly as possible to get to the end, but to explore all avenues of every choice you must make. If played properly, it will keep you in stitches, and on your toes for hours. Robert O'Reilly, (who rightfully earned Best Actor for Multimedia presentations) as Gowron, leader of the Klingon Empire, and mentor of this Federation training program, is magnificiently fatherly and funny at the same time. When you play this game, you honestly feel as if you ARE Pok, the initiate to Gowron's mentor. Woefully, the writers return Gowron to a two-dimensional trickster in the end, but the game definitely overcomes this single flaw.


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