Getting Emotional About Wing 3 (May 28, 2016)

[KrisV]

The retro blog Emotional Multimedia Ride has followed up on their WC1 and WC2 piece with a long look at Wing Commander 3 for PC. Like the one before it, this article touches all the bases with an overview of the main cast, the quality of the graphics and video, reflections on the gameplay mechanics and the way the player's actions (directly through conversation choices or indirectly through mission performance) impacts the storyline.

Technically, the game is a two-sided sword. On the one hand, the orchestral soundtrack is amazing and adds much to the cinematic flair, although the repetitive one-liners of the pilotsa?? communication channel can get annoying quite fast. The ship designs are detailed even up close with explosions looking particularly cool, while the game runs much smoother on modern systems thanks to DOSBox, compared to the slideshow or blink-of-an-eye-and-your-dead experience of the first two games. On the other hand, the low resolution of the full motion videos makes them a pain for the eyes to watch at times.

The PC version of Wing 3 has heavily compressed full motion video compared to the PlayStation port. We've made a comprehensive movie index from this higher quality source, including some scenes that were cut from the PC edition. Check it out here.






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Original update published on May 28, 2016

 

[Mindcrime]

Surprised the console ports got more videos than the pc version. Never thoght i would utter those words.