SEGA CD

Wing Commander

Description

The Confederation have been at war with the Kilrathi for the past 20 years, and you're just now joining the Vega campaign. You're a 2nd Lieutenant just out of the Academy, with some good work under your belt. You're posted to Tiger's Claw, the flagship of the Confederation Fleet. Will you help the Confederation to victory, or go down in infamy?

Wing Commander is a space combat simulator interspersed with shipboard dialogs. Onboard the ship, you can save/load game, visit the bar to get the latest gossip, or go on to the next mission briefing, and the 3D space combat part.

The 3D space combat have you sitting in the cockpit, where you control the craft like roll, turn, up/down, afterburner, as well as fire guns and launch missiles. There are four different crafts on the Confed side, each with different flight characteristics and armament. You will have a wingman on each mission, and you should keep the wingman alive as the wingman will help you if you issue the right orders. You can also taunt the enemy. You'll be fighting several different types of enemy fighters and capital ships, and even combat a few Kilrathi aces.

When the mission is complete, land back onboard the ship and get ready for the next one. The campaign tree have both winning and losing paths.

Wing Commander featured a hybrid bitmap/3D graphics engine that allowed even 286's to display detailed 3D graphics to an extent never before possible. With EMS available, it can display even more detailed graphics and in-cockpit animations.

Alternate Titles

• "银河飞将" -- Chinese title (simplified)
• "Wingleader" -- Working title
• "Squadron" -- Working title

Part of the Following Groups

• Games made into books
• Games made into movies
• Video games turned in to board/card games
• Wing Commander series
• Wing Commander universe

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User Reviews

A good conversion which suffers of a too important slowness to be playable!

ANONYME ANONYME (2)

The Press Says

Game Players	Jul, 1994	82 out of 100	82
GamePro	Jul, 1994	4 out of 5	80

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Amazing non-linear story from a space simulator?	9	FrakesJoe (NSDSP) (8) Nov 11, 2008
Need help landing.	6	Indra Depari of 'da Clan Depari (13163) Nov 08, 2008
How Many Floppy Diskettes?	6	Indra Depari of 'da Clan Depari (13163) May 21, 2008

Trivia

The game manual, like other Origin games, is written inside the universe and titled "Claw Marks: The Onboard Magazine of TCS Tiger's Claw". Inside is various stories and articles that might be interesting to an active pilot, including a set of ship's schematics under the heading "Joan's Spacecraft". This is a various obvious nod to the Jane's Information Group which for years published encyclopedic specifications of ships, aircraft, tanks and other machines of war. In the video game world, the Jane's branding has been attached to multiple products.