Customer Reviews

Star Trek: Klingon Honor Guard

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Hard to find game that is actually worth the search...as long as you download the patch and find it at a reasonable price. The graphics are pretty good for its generation of design and the playability is sometimes difficult but fun.
Your system needs to have some punch to run this game effectively. My P3 850, with Voodoo3 does a great job up to 1024 X 768, which is fine since the graphics are from the Unreal engine, which looks good at all resolutions. I can get Unreal to run at 1152 X 1024 fluidly, but not this one.
The game is challenging and very faithful to the Star Trek themes with some (few) additional creative, but actually enhancing artistic license in the environments.
"Elite Force" and "DS9 The Fallen" are better games with more fluid graphics, but this games still rocks. I would give it 5 stars if the game patch had not been needed and I could get one more resolution notch our of it with my graphics card.
A good game. Get it if you can find it.

I loved this game. The graphics in this game are so close to the actual StarTrek graphics from the TV shows that it's unreal. From the Klingon purple blood to the uniforms and logos it was just like being in a Star Trek episode. The only issue I had was that the game initially didn't support open gl and that made for some near slow motion graphics. Fortunately there is a patch that adds direct 3d and opengl support to the game and solved that problem nicely. If you can still find a copy of this game around, it is most definitely worth the money.

Finally! A first person shooter in the Star Trek universe and it is incredibly well made.

Klingon Honor Guard takes you from a holodeck mission, to Rura Penthe, and to a Klingon Bird of Prey all with top notch graphics and logical plots.

The game play is just like Unreal, so if you are used to those types of games, you will have no problem with this title.

While Voyager: Elite Force is much better, this game isn't bad. I highly recommend this game.

I'm not a star trek fan at all, but I'm a big Unreal fan, and I'm desperate for more. This game uses the Unreal engine pretty effectively and will suffice for a quick fix. Not as spooky or pretty as Unreal, but pretty still and more action, plus integration of video between and during levels. I imagine star trek geeks will find this last charateristic very satisfying. The first few levels are lame, but perservere and game play will improve dramatically. I've gotten about 20-25 fps at the 512 resolution level on my iMac G3/333/Rage Pro.

This was one of my favorite "shooter" games for a long time. Unfortunately, it was built upon a "pre-release" version of the Unreal Engine, and Microprose lost the Trek license shortly after this program's release, so they never really updated it to the later, more stable, version of the Unreal Engine.

It was, in fact, the first game I ever purchased which would not work... AT ALL... out of the box. Fortunately, the 1.1 patch fixed those issues.

To make this program work on a modern computer (running 32-bit XP Pro SP3, but the hardware is just under a year old), these are the steps you need to follow:

1 Patch to 1.1 (check Fileplanet for the patch file)
2 Use the Microsoft Compatibility Toolkit to set this to "single processor affinity" and "windows exec race condition fix." Don't set any other compatibility fixes. DO NOT use one of the "standard presets" (which will cause more problems than they fix for this software).

and most importantly of all, USE A GLIDE WRAPPER. I have two GLide wrappers I use. One is installed into Windows and is the "Default" if I don't use the other one... it's called "Zeckensack's glide wrapper" and it works very nicely. If that isn't ideal, I use something called "dgVoodoo" which you place into the directory with the game executable. dgVoodoo is, as a result, always a "unique setup" rather than a system-wide setup. It has a lot more options, and these options can be tweaked on a per-game basis (since it's not system-wide).

See, this program was designed to run on 3DFX video cards, and the "Direct3D" and "OpenGL" implementations are just horrible. Direct3D will usually lock the program up, and the "OpenGL" implementation just generally sucks, because while it, in theory, looks fine, it has a big, black "windowshade" which blocks your view of most of your screen... go figure! And while there is a working "Software mode" renderer, and that renderer looks OK most of the time, it is incompatible with the "weapons fire" effects... meaning each time you shoot your gun, the thing freezes for a second or so.

But run it in a "Glide Wrapper" (so that the application THINKS it's working with a 3DFX video card), and it works perfectly.

I've wanted to play this again for years... this is the first time I've managed to make it work, though. Abandoning OpenGL and/or Direct3D, and abandoning the software mode, and ONLY using the 3DFX mode, is critical to making this work. And using the two "compatibility mode" settings I mentioned above is critical to preventing it from "racing" and having "Benny Hill Chase Sequence" behavior for the AI creatures.

I have not yet tried it on Win7, but I suspect that this will work just fine. Of course, the installer seems to be 16-bit, so you may have some trouble installing on a 64-bit system... I can't comment on that.

About the game itself... once working, it's a lot of fun, especially if you're a Trek fan. The game design was done quite well. Yes, it's primarily just "Unreal" with a Star Trek spin on it, but the Trek stuff feels authentic to the TNG-era Trek universe. There's a lot more shooting and a lot less negotiation and exploration... but that's why this is a KLINGON game, rather than a Federation game.

It's fun, and I'm planning on playing it through again now that I can!

This ranks up there as one of my all time favorite first person shooter games and I've played quite a few: Silent Hill series, The Thing, Star Trek Voyager Elite Force, Run Like Hell, Army of Darkness: A Fist Full of Boomsticks, Alien vs. Predator and the list goes on. This game would probably be one of my top five even including much more recent games. Of course I'm a Star Trek fan so being able to be a Klingon in a video game was pretty cool. It's kind of cool to be the hero but not necessarily real good guy, since you are a Klingon warrior after all. I loved the choice of weopons from a disruptor pistol and rifle to the bat'leth and d'k tahg. Too bad it didn't rate a sequel or get turned into a PS2 Game like Elite Force. I would love to play it again and my computer is too new to play the old copy I have.

For being released in 1998, this game is quite impressive. However, I think it's not meant to be played at a difficulty setting higher than "Ferengi"(which is the easiest).
It's kind of fun, the dialog is poorly done but with good scripting. The videos don't work on my computer, but that just might be my computer doing that.
As a trekkie, I give it 4.5 out of 5 for it's true-to-Trek story and background.
As a gamer, I give it a 3.

I'm a Unreal, and a Star Trek fan. I think that this is a good use of the Unreal engine, although it isnt as pretty as Unreal. I only found the game extremely enjoyable after i started playing with the cheats.

Klingon Honor Guard is definately one of the better Star Trek games out there, though that may not be saying much.

You play as a warrior in the Klingon academy sent to investigate an assassination attempt on the high chancellor. This sends you throughout the Klingon empire to find the assailant. Along the way you will run into all sorts of areas, most notably several levels on the Rura Penthe prison from Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country, and aboard a Klingon Bird of Prey warship.

Your weaponary utilizes some recognizable from the Star Trek universe like the disrupter rifle and the Bat'leth, the mighty Klingon sword.

In the end this comes together to be a pretty good game, even if you aren't a Trekkie.