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You've been hoping for a watered-down, 2D arcade shooter? User was banned for this post

Completely disagree -- the average Xbox Live user wouldn't touch the original Wing Commander with a 10-foot pole, the graphics are far too primitive. That's assuming they would be willing to jump through the hoops required to get it to run on a modern PC in the first place. A more likely...

Agreed, doesn't need to be a big flashy FMV production, and I loved the early iterations for the same reasons you did. Heck I have Wing Commander for the Sega CD on the way and I'm really excited, I loved playing it back in the day. My concern is that many of the things you mentioned simply...

Frankly, I'm OK with this. The day of the flight sim has come and gone. I'd rather it die gracefully than be shoe-horned into a genre that lacks any of the key elements that made the original such a success.

So what's your point, that we shouldn't voice our concerns? I enjoyed Wing Commander because it was a 3D flight combat sim with the plot and pacing of a big budget Hollywood movie. I don't blindly consume anything and everything with a WC logo just for the sake of it. If that means I'm not a...

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree :) -- I find it equally mystifying that diehard WC fans are embracing a new WC game that essentially controls like Pac-Man. Arena doesn't deserve blind support simply because it's a new Wing Commander game. Of course I was very happy, until I...

Wow, the vitriol in this thread is quite amusing. So now if we prefer traditional WC we're Nazis? Too funny, seriously didn't expect that attitude on a WC board. I realize it's exciting to see a new game in the franchise, but that alone is not enough for some of us. We don't need to play...

OK, let's say that Arena is a raging success. EA has raked in a ton of cash by slapping the WC label on a low budget arcade action title. The theory is that this will pave the wave for a new, more traditional WC game, right? There are two problems with this line of thinking. First, you're...

I was responding to a post that's barely half an hour old... that's not allowed? If you're referring to your post about there being an interest at EA in doing a traditional WC, I'm sorry but this game will do little to further that cause. Flight sims don't sell, so EA won't risk it. The...

How so? If this game is a success, won't it just prove that they can slap the Wing Commander name on any old game and fans will eat it up? What would be their motivation to spend the amount of money it would take to develop a true heir to the WC franchise if the budget route gets the job...

Founded on "nothing"? They've removed an entire plane from the game. That doesn't sound like progress. Wing Commander is going backwards, not forwards. It's being dumbed down, not built up. GTA is a great example -- it went from a simple top-down driving game to the big expansive world...

I wholeheartedly agree, and I'm actually kind of shocked that this appears to be the minority view. Like everyone else I was ecstatic to hear the announcement of a new Wing Commander game... until I saw the video. This game appears to offer very little of the WC experience that sucked so...