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New Wing Commander - For Gameboy Advance?
TC (WC) writes "In the past week, the first Wing Commander game in 5 years was released... for the Gameboy Advance. A port of Wing Commander: Prophecy to the GBA was released in North America on May 28th. This news update on the Wing Commander CIC has first impressions of the game and some screenshots. It uses Raylight's Blue Roses 3D engine, and is one of the most beautiful looking and technically impressive GBA game that's been made."
I didn't know the GBA had a speaker. I hear they couldn't afford Freddie Prinze, Jr
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
Hopefully it'll be a little more successful than the "port" to film.
Andy
Enough "Wing Commander", which will always be in the shadow of the Man-Kzin wars it ripped off: I'd rather see "Zero-Wing".
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Wow
That is great!
A new WC games!
I will run to my nearest GBA dealer to buy it!
Thanks TC for your superb note!
Anbody notice on the main page's Screenshots, the thumbnail for the ship going into (coming out of?) the wormhole is BIGGER than the actual picture?
Polaroid. See what develops!!
"Anbody notice on the main page's Screenshots, the thumbnail for the ship going into (coming out of?) the wormhole is BIGGER than the actual picture?"
That is because of the singularity nature of wormholes. The closer to the wormhole, the smaller the image, as it is compressed to a single pixel in order to pass through.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Update: "Fist Sport" explained. (05/17/01)
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It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.
What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:
Linus Torvalds is an anagram of SLIT ANUS OR VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
Richard M. Stallman , spokespervert for the Gaysex is Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of MANS CRAM THRILL AD.
Alan Cox is barely an anagram of ANAL COX which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.
I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, [Buy At Amazon] is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for SECONDARY RIM and CORD IN MY ARSE. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.
Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for "Felch Male" - a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, "felching" is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into "e-male."
As far as Richard "(cock)Master" Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following:
And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!
Speaking about "flaming," who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:
Is this why you were touching your penis in
I played WCP on my PC some years ago. Pretty cheesey, if you ask me. WCI, II and IV were a *lot* better, IMHO.
Anyways, WCP had by far the most complicated control scheme of the WC games. How are you going to squish that into something with only 6 buttons and a d-pad?
Maybe they could put sensors in the cartridge so it could intrepret tilting the game as steering, as well as when you move forward/backward as speeding up/slowing down. That way you'd just go to a large open field, and start running around in circles while you blast aliens...
...New Wing Commander - WOOHOO!!
...For Gameboy Advance - DOH!!!
The peak of the 'arcade' space sims was during the X-wing and WC releases. Since then there's been a dearth of games (unless you count Freelancer, and it's goofy mouse control scheme). I'd *love* to see a new Wing Commander game that can take advantage of current CPU/GPU power. To re-release WCP for a handheld console is just embarassing...
..so why should it be a good game today?
I laud the technical effort in squeezing it down to the GBA.. but one has to question why they bothered. Oh well, it's not like I'm a GBA player / owner anyway.
Back to Planetside for me...
If I recall correctly there was a free web-released Wing Commander. To my memory, one downloaded the game and first mission; following weeks, further missions were released.
This would have been a few years back; perhaps two or three.
Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about and where I can get it again? This wasn't pirate-ware, it was a for-real, sanctioned release.
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I think, however, that this game would appeal to a wider audience if they ported Wing Commander 1.. Wing Commander always depended on strong story elements to negate some of the repetitive gameplay.. Porting over a game that relied heavily upon FMV for its storyline was a mistake. WC1 & 2 had an animated text based storyline that is perfect for the GBA.
It's a shame that such a marvelous technical achievement may be overlooked because they ported the wrong darn game!
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