Space School Simulator: The Academy

Space School Simulator: The Academy is a video game in the strategy genre and published by CRL Group PLC originally released in 1987. It is currently playable on DOS, Amiga, Amstrad CPC.

Pete Cooke's sequel to the previous space shooter-explorer moves away from the Tau Ceti setting. Players take the role of a student at an advanced piloting academy. There they have to solve 20 simulated missions on a wide range of planets.

The autonomous missions make the game use the structure and theme of Tau Ceti, without the causality of previous decisions having an effect on subsequent choices. This reduces management complexity. Although players can customize ships, even giving them names of their choice, the game comes with supplied ones that include a variety that should suit many different circumstances.

Whichever vehicle is chosen, players will control it from a first-person perspective and a range of controls. All ships fly over the planet's surface and are equipped with weapons. Most of the missions will consist of destroying enemy robots. Players will have to dock at buildings to refuel or move to another planet.

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