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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Agreed on Wing Commander Capn.
Wing Commander 2 was the first computer game I ever bought for my 386.
Loved that game.
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I really liked Wing Commander 2 because of the story line, but when I sit back and think about it, in terms of game play Wing Commander 1 was just a better game.
Wing Commander 2 got rid of the story tree that made wing commander 1 really strong. If you lost a key mission in 2, you were sent back to your space station duty and had to listen as the Concordia was destroyed. In wing commander 1 if you failed a whole other mission tree opened up and you could find yourself on a losing path. It made its so the game could be different every time you played it.
The dog fights in Wing Commander 2 were turning and burning battles, Kilrathi would either hit their after burner then turn back into you for a head to head. Or they would just circle around you endlessly trying to take advantage of their superior speed. In wing commander 1, and I'm going off of memory, the Kilrathi would do a whole wack of different things. They used different maneuvers like the Skelton Slide, the cut throat, pull immelmens, and one would lead you on a tail chase while his wing mate would drop in behind you and kill you.
For the most part your wingmen couldn't die in wing Commander 2 unless the game called for it. If they got to beat up they either ejected or screamed, I'm outta here and took off. In the first one, your wing men were very mortal and you had to work very hard to keep them alive even if you didn't want to in terms of Maniac.
Don't get me wrong, WC2 had some really cool features, the bomber feature was actually quite cool and stressful when you lined up on an enemy cruiser for a torpedo launch while it tried to close the distance and kill you with missiles or point defense systems. The ability to jump into a gunner turret was cool as well, and the story line was great and to an extent heart breaking as you watched Spirit die and your first wing man die and there was nothing you could do.
Wing Commander 2 also introduce a character that I think was a gaming icon in Admiral Tolwyn, who was later excellently portrayed by Malcolm Macdonald.
Behind the scenes and bloopers from WC 3