From Wing Commander Encyclopedia
| Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi
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| Release Date
| Fall 1991
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Introduction
Wing Commander II was one of many evolutionary steps in the Wing Commander series. WC2 used an upgraded version of the original Wing Commander's flight engine, but the story and presentation were drastically overhauled. Routine conversations in the bar, mission briefings and post-flight debriefings were often replaced with casual interludes, dramatic exchanges and emergency events that sent the game in unpredictable directions. The story took our hero, Christopher Blair, from exile to the front lines of the Enigma Sector where he had to prove his innocence for the destruction of the TCS Tiger's Claw. Old friends and new characters were brought to life with real recorded voices in an optional speech pack. Wing Commander II sold sound cards to a generation of PC gamers and almost single handedly made the SoundBlaster a household name. The game's introduction was a breathtaking forebearer of the cinematic turn the industry would take a few short years later.
Ten years ago, you were the Hero of Vega Sector, idol of millions - the starfighter pilot who single-handedly turned the tide of a major Kilrathi invasion.
Then something went wrong.
You were disgraced, court-martialed and transferred to a backwater outpost. For years, your lightning-quick reflexes and instinctive dogfighting tactics went to waste while the Kilrathi killed your closest friends on the front lines.
But Mankind still needs a hero, now more than ever before. And you're still the best pilot in the Galaxy. You've got just one chance to prove yourself, just one chance to keep the Terran homeworlds from falling to the massed armada of the Empire of Kilrah.
Thank you can handle it, flyboy?
Description
System Requirements
Box Contents
Credits
Advertising
Versions
Deluxe Edition: Included WC2, S01, & S02
Deluxe Edition CD: Included WC2, S01, & S02
Ports
Wing Commander 2 for the Super Nintendo tops the list of ultra rare games that we'd love to get our hands on. It was fully developed back in the mid nineties but held up before release. It had nifty color comm vids and a streamlined "action" interface. The following scan is a full preview that GamePro conducted way back in May 1995.
Strategy Guides
Re-Releases
Screenshots
Development
Patches / Addons
Origin
Fan Made
Editing Tools
Miscellaneous Files
Music
Tracks from Origin Audio CD Volume 1
Thanks to Sébastien Caty and Joe Garrity. (Details, more)
High Quality tracks
Various tracks
Manuals and Game Documentation
Cheats
DOS Edition
- Start the game with "wc2 Origin" at the command line to enter debug mode.
- Alt-Del destroys target. Alt-Ins destroys all enemy fighters on the radar.
- Start the game with "wc2.exe Origin -k".
- Same as above, plus invincibility.
Kilrathi Saga Edition
- With invincibility off, open wc2.cfg. Make sure it contains -k -b. Turning invincibility back on may cause your name to change back to CHEATER.
- Player name is no longer replaced with "CHEATER" when invincibility is enabled.
Cutscenes
Ships
Terran Confederation
Empire of Kilrah
Missions
Weapons
Guns
Missiles
Subcategories
This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total.
Pages in category "Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi"
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