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BrynS noticed that Firing Squad has published an article highlighting game series that desperately need sequels. Wing Commander makes the list as one of their most desired titles. They highlight the need for new games in a handful of contemporary series such as Ultima, C&C Red Alert and Mech Warrior. Even Freespace gets a mention, although they note that the rights for that franchise are in a particularly awkward state. Despite the back-handed compliments littered throughout the piece, we have to mostly agree with their list of games.

Wing Commander: Origin’s space combat-sim series is one that even non-gamers may know of, thanks unfortunately to the awful movie adaptation that was ironically directed by the game’s creator Chris Roberts. That shouldn’t take away from the game series, however, which mixed in a deep (for games, anyway) storyline with some fast paced space action gameplay. There were several games in the series released by Origin in the 1990’s and were some of the first games to use live actors for cut scenes (yep, Mark Hamill as Christopher Blair was an acting powerhouse)

It’s been a long time since the last game in the series, Wing Commander: Prophecy, was released in 1997 but we still think that Electronic Arts (the owners of all the former Origin properties) would get a lot of mileage out of a new game, especially if they get a top notch development team to handle it. The name recognition alone would help sales.

Odds For Revival: Unlikely. We hate to say it but space sims, once a huge gaming draw, are now down to something of a niche market for the indie developer set. We still think a new Wing Commander series would work well but for now it doesn’t look like Electronic Arts would be interested in reviving this franchise anytime soon


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