Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom for 3DO

Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom
Platform	3DO Systems
Status	Announced
Timeline	Announced - October 1995 Planned Release - Autumn 1996

Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom for 3DO is a Wing Commander project which was not released. Origin Systems and Lion Software worked on the project from October 1995 to May 1996 but the project was abandoned. Wing Commander IV for 3DO was included in Anthony Sommers' 1998 list of cancelled Origin projects.

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• The space epic will continue during the first half of ‘96 on the 3DO system with the release of Wing Commander® IV from Origin Systems. Like its predecessor it will incorporate several hours of liveaction video and will feature many of the renowned actors from Wing Commander III: Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange, Star Trek: Generations), Mark Hamill ( Star Wars), John Rhys-Davies (Indiana Jones movies), Jason Bernard (Herman’s Head) and Tom Wilson (Back to the Future I, II, and III). Wing Commander IV’s nine-week shooting was completed in mid-July at RenMar Studios in Hollywood with Executive Producer Chris Roberts, the creator of the Wing Commander line, once again in the director’s chair. Terry Borst and Frank DePalma, veteran Hollywood screenwriters who wrote the script for Wing Commander III, collaborated again to bring this story to life. The player will again take on the role of Col. Christopher Blair (Hamill). The war between the humans and the cat-like Kilrathi is over, but problems are beginning anew this time in your own backyard. There has been an outbreak of civil wars and unrest in the Border Worlds. Blair is recalled to help the Terran government stamp out the growing fires. Signs of decay are becoming impossible to ignore. The Confederation is beginning to splinter under new pressures and you must determine how to save - or if it should be saved. Wing Commander IV sports moving camera shots and real movie sets complete with a fully-digitized interactive musical score. The graphics will come alive in Super VGA and will be much improved with photo-realistic textures on fighters. Origin states that player interactivity will be enhanced both in and out of the cockpit with even greater control of missions and drama. Once again the fate of the human race is depending on you to make the right calls. - What's Up!, 3 3DO Magazine, October 1995

• Wing Commander IV is rumoured to be going through the conversion process with Lion, the people behind the excellent 3DO DeathKeep. We initially expected this in Spring, but it now seems all the superconsole versions won't be released until Autumn. - Interactive, 3DO Magazine, May 1996

• ErinFritz2: When can we expect WC4 on M2 and what types of improvements will it incoporate over the awesome WCIII? OSI: Ironicly we were just looking at the M2 technology today. But for now we are working on a opera version of the game. Stephen3DO: for you folks that aren't familiar with the terms, Opera is the code word for the current 3DO system - Origin 3DO Chat, July 11 1995

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