Windows

Wing Commander: Prophecy

Description

Following the Border Worlds conflict of Wing Commander IV, the galaxy is once more at peace. Colonel Christopher Blair, hero of the Confederation has transferred into the Naval Forces. Blair helps design the TCS Midway, a state-of-the-art multi-role carrier that will help keep order during the Confederation's new peacetime. The luxury of peace allows Confed to retire many older pilots and assign younger pilots to piloting roles. Lance Casey and his friend Max "Maestro" Garrett are two such pilots, fresh from the academy, transferred aboard the TCS Midway along with several others for its maiden voyage along the borders of Confed Space. But soon into the mission, the Midway intercepts a distress call from the Kilrathi, the remains of a race of cat-like warriors who lost the war with the Confederation...

Wing Commander: Prophecy is a space combat simulator. Players take the role of Lance Casey on his new assignment aboard the ship. The player can click various hotspots aboard the ship to engage in non-interactive FMV conversations with shipboard personnel. By entering the briefing room, players can receive full instructions on their next mission.

Space Combat begins by launching from the TCS Midway carrier, and are displayed as first-person perspective inside the cockpit, similar to the rest of the Wing Commander series. Mission objectives vary between escort duties, patrol missions, search and destroy or defense of the TCS Midway herself. Depending on the ship being flown for the particular mission, the player will be able to switch between guns, missiles, torpedoes and mines with which to combat the enemy. The player, as wing commander, can give orders to nearby wingmen and communicate with any other ship. After each mission, the player must return to dock with the TCS Midway and will receive a mission performance rating.

Alternate Titles

• "Wing Commander V" -- Informal title

Part of the Following Groups

• Wing Commander series
• Wing Commander universe

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User Reviews

Gameplay's revenge! Die space-opera! DIE!!	Zovni (9138)
A decent space sim is marred by bad presentation	Clark Gable (72)	unrated
One of the fastest and most beautiful space action games of all time	Zzap (43)
After the "Roberts" brothers left, the Wing Commander series as we know it, is dead...	calng (5)

The Press Says

Electric Games	1998	93 out of 100	93
Gamezilla	Aug 17, 2000	92 out of 100	92
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Jan, 1998	90 out of 100	90
PC Action	Jan, 1998	90 out of 100	90
PC Games (Germany)	Jan 07, 1998	90 out of 100	90
GameStar (Germany)	Jan, 1998	86 out of 100	86
GameSpot	Dec 16, 1997	8.6 out of 10	86
PC Player (Germany)	Jan, 1998	85 out of 100	85
Pelit	Feb, 1998	83 out of 100	83

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Trivia

As of this writing, the Secret Ops add-on can be downloaded from www.patches-scrolls.de/ - click the Dos\Windows link and go to W and click Wing Commander Prophecy links. The file is a fairly [!!] large 112 mb download. Also available is the German language version @ 128 mb.