Wing Commander IV Storyboards - Scene 218 (December 2, 2010)

[Bandit LOAF]

Scene 218 was worth the wait--a far more impressive cutscene of the action on Circe X! The scene looks like it would originally have involved live action soldiers and a massive bombing run of Banshees.

These storyboard images were recovered from a backup CD containing materials belonging to Origin's web development team. They were dated November 17, 1995 and were likely planned for a never-completed web feature.

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Original update published on December 2, 2010

 

[Oggy]

Wow, that looks like it would have been awesome!!!

Banshees in an atmosphere? I thought the Vindicators were the "only one you can use for atmospheres"

 

[TCSTigersClaw]

Wish they had the budget for something like that,we have seen little gound action in wc (in games ) .

Oggy : http://www.crius.net/zone/showthread.php?t=26396

and also http://www.crius.net/zone/showthread.php?t=22024

about Banshees in atmosphere

 

[Wedge009]

Discussions of in-universe atmospheric capabilities aside, we do see Vindicators make the bombing runs against the tanks in the final movie cut. Presumably for the sake of consistency with the rest of the game.