Description
The war against the Kilrathi is going badly for the Confederation. Its flagship, the Concordia, has been destroyed, battles are lost on all fronts. War hero Colonel Christopher Blair is transferred to the old carrier Victory. Take the role of Blair and ensure the success of the Confederation's last-ditch attempt for victory: the destruction of the Kilrathi homeworld . .
Wing Commander III has the usual mix of space battles and cinematic storytelling. Changes from the first two games include SVGA graphics, the use of texture-mapped polygons instead of bitmaps for spaceflight sequences and real Hollywood actors appearing in the cinematic scenes.
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Trivia
Besides its standard release, a special edition, and a "premiere" edition of the game were made available.
While the game itself is the same on all of the releases several extras were added. The Premiere edition contained all the items found in the original release (manual, etc...) plus:
a film canister packaging (as the inauguration of Origin's interactive movie division).
the wc3 interactive behind the scenes cd, which features several out-takes, bloopers, interviews, etc...
"The making of WC3" a video documentary (video as in VHS) depicting the creation and all the production aspects of the game via interviews and the like (aprox. 25 min length).
"Fleet Action" a WC novel by William R. Forstchen.
An xl WC3 t-shirt.
Volume 3 of the Origin audio cds (which includes ultima, wc, bioforge, etc soundtracks).
WC3 calendar (1995).
WC3 poster
and a full color "Warbirds" sheet, a fold-out reference sheet with pictures and stats of several kilrathi and confed ships. (the one that came with the original game was black and white).
This premire release was also shipped overseas in several foreign releases, though most of these (i.e. the european release) didn't include neither the novel (because of translation issues) nor the color warbirds sheet (they came with the regular b&w one instead (because EA fell behind schedule on the printing of said sheets and if it had waited for the printing of the color ones they would have missed their foreign release dates).
The "special edition" was a special release only available trough a select few retail outlets (like Sam's club) this version includes all the original documentation, etc, plus the T-shirt, the film canister packaging, and a "behind the scenes cd" which is not the one included on the premiere edition, it's actually the VHS tape documentary encoded as an avi file.
