Look Back At The Leading Edge Of Great FMV Games (February 29, 2016)

[ChrisReid]

FMVStory.com, a website dedicated to classic games that featured live action cutscenes, posted a neat Wing Commander 3 preview from Edge Magazine. This one dates all the way back to August 1994 in the months leading up to The Heart of the Tiger's release. The article isn't super long and primarily introduces the concept of FMV in the pending release, but it does curiously also mention that the game will ship on two CDs. We're glad that proved to be incorrect - even the four CDs that it came on couldn't contain everything! The familiar first look screenshots and early render Concordia make appearances here as well. You can find more nods to classic contemporaries of WC3 on FMVStory's Twitter.




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Original update published on February 29, 2016

 

[Wedge009]

Yeah, I remember hearing conflicting reports on how many CDs WC3 would require. Remember, this was a time when most games took barely a fraction of a CD's capacity. So I was very surprised when I found out that it actually required four! (And then WC4 would go into overkill and require six!)