![]() ![]() Tropes employed by the Wing Commander video games: Origin Systems was eventually bought by Electronic Arts and then later dissolved, which marked an end to ongoing development of this franchise, but there are some very promising fan projects keeping it alive. In addition to this, there are numerous Expansion Packs, tie-in novels, a couple spin-offs, a Spiritual Successor in the form of Starlancer and Freelancer, a Saturday morning cartoon, and a movie. It takes place in the Time Marches On Near-Future of 2011 with conventional fighter planes duking it out for supremacy in a very plot-driven series of missions. It begins with the player character awakening from cryogenic slumber and discovering people are out to kill him. Privateer 2: The Darkening: A Dolled-Up Installment.Armada: Acting as backstory for Wing Commander III (and a proof of concept for the graphics engine running III and IV), Armada represents the first opportunity to play from the perspective of the Kilrathi, and the first look at the new Kilrathi aesthetic (including the revised Dralthi model seen in every Wing Commander game since).The final Wing Commander game using scaling bitmaps rather than polygonal graphics. Privateer: Grayson Burrows is a Han Solo Expy just trying to make a living in a Crapsack World of space pirates, slavers, drug-dealers, and worse (some of which he can participate in).Academy (not to be confused with the cartoon of the same name): A simple simulator that allows the player to design their own missions using the 'Wing Commander II'' engine.It is an Xbox Live Arcade exclusive game. Wing Commander Arena follows, with a Time Skip, after Secret Ops, but doesn't really have a storyline as such other than some descriptions of the Great Offscreen War with the Nephilim in the manual, as its primary focus is multiplayer combat.Secret Ops, running on a modified version of Prophecy's VISION Game Engine, is something of a favorite in the Game Mod community for its relative ease of modification. It moves six Midway pilots to a new ship for another campaign against the "Nephilim" invaders as they strike at the heart of the Confederation. Wing Commander Secret Ops was originally released online as a free Episodic Game, and may be the Ur-Example of that trope.Prophecy is one of the first space sim games to utilize 3D accelerator hardware, in particular the 3DFx line. ![]() From the depths of space comes a new foe, one even the Kilrathi fear, and it's up to your experimental carrier to stop them. You no longer play Christopher "Maverick" Blair, but a hot-shot new pilot, son of famed Tiger's Claw veteran Michael "Iceman" Casey. Wing Commander Prophecy starts a new chapter in the series.Instead of buying some droids, he's re-activated to investigate unrest out on the frontier, where the difference between friend and foe isn't quite as clear-cut as it used to be. Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom takes place two years after the end of the war, after Blair has retired and.Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger, in which the series moves to rendered 3D graphics and Live Action Cutscenes, involving several big-name stars it was marketed as "The First Interactive Movie." Blair helps take the war to the Kilrathi one more time, but not without cost.Its use of digitized voices finished cementing Sound Blaster's fame. Your character finds himself unfairly blamed, and vows to clear his name, getting his chance ten years later. Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi, which starts out with the Claw being destroyed by Kilrathi Stealth Fighters ( which can turn invisible) while trying to attack a major enemy command post.It made use of a fully-orchestrated (if MIDI) Variable Mix, helping to make Sound Blaster a household name in computers. Wing Commander, in which your sort of Heroic Mime becomes a hotshot pilot aboard the TCS Tiger's Claw, a famed carrier in the Terran Confederation serving in the Vega sector of space.The game setting is influenced by the interest of Chris Roberts (creator of the series) in Top Gun (the player character's callsign, established in later canon, is Maverick, for example), as well as Star Wars (see the final mission of Wing Commander III, to say nothing of who plays Maverick in the cutscenes). The player is a fighter pilot serving, in most games, in the Terran Confederation Space Force. when they're not being blown to dustbunnies by much smaller space fighters, as is often the case. Mighty warships face off against one another. In the 27th century, the depths of space are host to brutal wars being waged by brave men and women (and cats, and bugs). A series of space-based Flight Sim and combat games from Origin Systems, Inc., dating back to 1990 with spinoffs including one movie, animated series, novels, even a few action figures.
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