By 1998, the space combat genre was being beaten back into the ropes. Their sales were often overshadowed by titles such as id’s Quake II, Westwood Studios’ Command & Conquer […]
Chris Roberts, Wing Commander’s creative founder and the man who directed its transformation into an interactive movie, took the next big step in his career by leaving Origin to found […]
Though Lucasarts dropped the ball with X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter’s story-less target range in 1996, Origin was still busy working on Wing Commander Prophecy for 1997. But before that came […]
There’s not a whole lot that I have to say about this one. It came out April 29, 1997, and like Wing Commander: Armada, was the series’ first experiment with […]
TIE Fighter had shown how creative missions can be especially if you join up with the “bad guys”. Wing Commander III revived its tried and true formula in being the […]
By the time 1994 came around, Origin’s Wing Commander series was seen as the ace to beat when it came to depressurizing enemies with a few well placed neutron volleys. […]
Privateer wasn’t the only game to try and stage a different take on the series. Wing Commander Armada was released in mid-1994, a few months before Wing Commander III’s debut, […]
Wing Commander III was a big success for Origin, but it wasn’t the only game that continued to push the development house along the bleeding edge. Another game that I […]
Monster budgets courting tens of millions of dollars is a fact of life among publishers and developers betting big on new games in the AAA realm in today’s market. Even […]
The sequel to Wing Commander in 1991, a mere year following the first game, raised the stakes even further with sharper graphics and effects along with a long string of […]
