Vinman caught a little mention over in a new PC Gamer article. The author spent 2024 deep diving the depths of retro game history and then came up with a list of the top ten winners that are most compelling today. Wing Commander comes up in the category of "First Person Thrills." Check out the full article here!
If skulking about under the stars doesn't sound appealing, how about looking out of a spaceship's cockpit while flying among them? Wing Commander somehow made combining epic action space battles with impressively sim-like flight control and damage modelling look easy. Then they added an incredibly reactive story that continues on whether I succeed or fail a mission. All this complexity, even though it was designed for hardware with barely double-digit CPU speeds and 1MB of RAM.
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