I was really into Wing Commander as a kid *couldn't land the craft into the hangar to save my life though lol* and the first two are fun, even the original is good in the SNES. But I missed out completely on the FMV installments. I got IV on the Playstation Network so i've played that one and loved it, easily being one of my new favorite games. It had a story that was as epic as anything on Babylon 5 and the new Battlestar Galactica and had treachery and made long time characters be evil which was risky IMHO. I heard V sucked a bit and has an unresolved cliffhanger so I been looking everywhere for III to complete my experience. Seeing it on this site made my year. Not only that but you get the game script, wallpaper, star ship blueprints and layouts, all the manuals one which reads as in universe........and a neat little epub book you can put on a device and read on the go.


Bravo Gog for getting EA to have their games for cheap, getting them to work better than Dungeon Keeper 2 did, AND for busting their chops and delivering on the extras.

I still remember seeing Wing Commander II for the first time at a friend's house. The opening sequence absolutely blew my mind...here was something on par with the Turbografx-CD games I had seen in store demos. (The fact that neither the WCII intro nor, say, the Ys I and II cutscenes had a lot of motion in them never registered to me at the time...the staging was good enough that all I noticed was the speech and the art). WC2 also came out just as I was REALLY getting into space opera...Battlestar Galactica, Robotech and (to a lesser extent) Buck Rogers repeats on Sci-Fi, Timothy Zahn's Star Wars books, comics like Guardians of the Galaxy and Silver Surfer. Our computer was NOT FOR GAMES EVAR and had only an EGA monitor, so I didn't get to play any of the games for a good while. When I finally got the SNES port of Wing Commander (and the first novel, Freedom Flight) for Christmas it was exactly what I needed at the time.

That was kind of rambly, but it's just a situation where the original WC games evoke such incredibly powerful memories and emotions in me that I can't help but get a little verbose. I suspect there are a LOT of guys like me in their early 30s who feel exactly the same way.