SWC Rant *MUST READ*
Originally posted by TC
What do you have against Super Wing Commander?
A LOT!!
Let's see....
The Terren Confederation is Soviet. Apparently, in SWC's alternate dimension, Sputnik paved the way for communism in space. The uniforms sucked. Not only that but they were boring to boot. No devices. Although they had a nice communist
red lining!
The characters' cosmetic looks were for the worse. Angel and Spirit looked
exotic, whilst Paladin had a curly mustachio, crew cut AND AN EYE-PATCH! AGH! Paladin's a space pirate now??
Maniac looked gay... and sounded like a crackhead on pot doing a Jack Nicholson impersonation. Halcyon looked like a football coach.
The music was remixed. Boo! Also, the famous "running to your ship," with music was replaced with "bouncing in an airlock to a station to get your space suit grafted on in a Terminator-mold meet the Centurions fashion and hopping into a cockpit which loaded in the ship a la Space: Above and Beyond."
In order to communicate, I had to first referrence my "on-board computer." Load time's a bitch in the middle of a kat-fight!
The dialogue was poorly acted ("Hey... Maverick... you got...
FOUR... furballs...!"). Also, Bluehair's name was Armstrong. Ugh. The ship desgins looked terrible too. They were so... un-Wing Commander! The worst straw was to make the Scimitar into the Confed Banshee. The only ship change for the better was the Hornet....
Now, I understand that some of my gripes had to do with the fact that the game came out before WC3 and was limited by the times. However, it still sucks and is a shame next to the original Wing Commander. What were they thinking?? Oh yeah- $$$