Category:Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi

Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi
Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi
Release Date	Fall 1991

Introduction

Wing Commander II was one of many evolutionary steps in the Wing Commander series. WC2 used an upgraded version of the original Wing Commander's flight engine, but the story and presentation were drastically overhauled. Routine conversations in the bar, mission briefings and post-flight debriefings were often replaced with casual interludes, dramatic exchanges and emergency events that sent the game in unpredictable directions. The story took our hero, Christopher Blair, from exile to the front lines of the Enigma Sector where he had to prove his innocence for the destruction of the TCS Tiger's Claw. Old friends and new characters were brought to life with real recorded voices in an optional speech pack. Wing Commander II sold sound cards to a generation of PC gamers and almost single handedly made the SoundBlaster a household name. The game's introduction was a breathtaking forebearer of the cinematic turn the industry would take a few short years later.

Ten years ago, you were the Hero of Vega Sector, idol of millions - the starfighter pilot who single-handedly turned the tide of a major Kilrathi invasion.

Then something went wrong.

You were disgraced, court-martialed and transferred to a backwater outpost. For years, your lightning-quick reflexes and instinctive dogfighting tactics went to waste while the Kilrathi killed your closest friends on the front lines.

But Mankind still needs a hero, now more than ever before. And you're still the best pilot in the Galaxy. You've got just one chance to prove yourself, just one chance to keep the Terran homeworlds from falling to the massed armada of the Empire of Kilrah.

Thank you can handle it, flyboy?

Description

Box Back Cover

System Requirements

Box Contents

Credits

Advertising

Wing Commander II Demo

Versions

Deluxe Edition: Included WC2, S01, & S02

Deluxe Edition CD: Included WC2, S01, & S02

Ports

FM Towns

Has Redbook CD audio tracks instead of MIDI files. Otherwise identical.

SNES

Wing Commander 2 for the Super Nintendo tops the list of ultra rare games that we'd love to get our hands on. It was fully developed back in the mid nineties but held up before release. It had nifty color comm vids and a streamlined "action" interface. The following scan is a full preview that GamePro conducted way back in May 1995.

Strategy Guides

Wing Commander 2 Storybook

Re-Releases

Screenshots

Development

Patches / Addons

Origin

Fan Made

Editing Tools

Miscellaneous Files

Music

Tracks from Origin Audio CD Volume 1

Wing Commander II - Jazz's Escape by The Fatman
Wing Commander II - Jazz's Storm Clouds by Nenad Vugrinec
Wing Commander II - Main Theme (Cloak and Dagger) by The Fatman
Wing Commander II - Midgame by Dana Glover & Martin Galaway
Wing Commander II - Off Duty by Dana Glover
Wing Commander II - Poker by Floyd Domino & The Fatman
Wing Commander II - Prince Thrakhath's Theme by Dana Glover & Martin Galway
Wing Commander II - The Flight Deck by Dana Glover
Compilation of the above (26:03) - 21,492k

Thanks to Sébastien Caty and Joe Garrity. (Details, more)

High Quality tracks

Various tracks

Manuals and Game Documentation

Online Guide

Cheats

DOS Edition

Start the game with "wc2 Origin" at the command line to enter debug mode.
Alt-Del destroys target. Alt-Ins destroys all enemy fighters on the radar.
Start the game with "wc2.exe Origin -k".
Same as above, plus invincibility.

Kilrathi Saga Edition

With invincibility off, open wc2.cfg. Make sure it contains -k -b. Turning invincibility back on may cause your name to change back to CHEATER.
Player name is no longer replaced with "CHEATER" when invincibility is enabled.