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Wing Commander 3 Reaches Ten Year Milestone
An Anonymous Reader writes "The Wing Commander CIC is reporting on the tenth birthday of the classic PC game, Wing Commander 3. "Much like Wing Commander 2 with the sound card and Wing Commander Prophecy with the 3d accelerator, Wing Commander 3 encouraged a legion of PC gamers to go out and buy a CD-ROM drive for hundreds of dollars. In little over four years we went from a handful of floppy disks to a stack of CDs. Once computers had their CD-ROM installed, systems with only 8 megabytes of RAM sufferred 5+ minute load times before the missions. Still, we happily waited for one of the most incredible gaming experiences ever." Though the game obviously looks dated by today's standards, it's held up remarkably well as a vehicle of adventure and storytelling. It's amazing that it's already been ten years."
My favourite classic space sim remains Elite, which is 20 years old this year.
-- Qu'est-ce que la propriété intellectuelle? It is thought control.
I didn't play wing commander 3, but i have many fond memories of WC Prophecy. The missions and space dogfighting were great, and an added bonus, Mark Hamill! Heh well the gameplay was still good.
There's a remake project for WC game "Privateer". Seems open source.
Wing commander 1-3 have been remade (but long ago) by Origin into the Wing Commander - Kilrathi Saga product. Seems they did not much more than slow down the game for less ancient machines though.