It's hard to belittle one of my favorite games has found a new life on modern PCs. It's the original Starfleet Academy in all it's glory. It doesn't have Chekov's Lost Missions addon, but all of the cinematics are here just as if you were playing the original CD edition, without having to swap out the CDs. The Commandant is still trying to teach those eager young cadets the ways of starship command and he still gets on my nerves to this day. Having said that, I do have a few things to say to anyone who hasn't played this before. (Please bear with me, I am not trying to downgrade this game at all!) This game was made in 1997 when 3D games were coming out to PCs in experimental force. The movies were done in front of a green screen or something and by today's standards, look pretty bad in spots. You can tell that the backgrounds are CGI. The starship & object graphics in game can be blurry from a distance, getting a littler sharper closer up, this isn't a new HD version. GOG left the game in tact. This is the classic Starfleet Academy game. The thing that surprises me the most was that on a Windows 8.1 system with a GeForce GTX465 graphics card, I just installed this game & it fired right up like new. I didn't have to change anything. The last time I tried my original game, the colors were horribly off, the game crashed continuously, but the GOG edition held up for over two straight hours of play without a single problem after installation. When a game that functioned in 1997 on an older desktop PC still works the same today as it did back then, providing the same classic entertainment years later without needing 3rd party support or patches, that's saying something! If you're a Star Trek fan looking for a starship simulator, I highly recommend this. If you had this game when it came out and the original doesn't work with your new PC, then GOG has come to the rescue! Any chance of GOG releasing Klingon Academy next?
