Making the Game: Pilot Bios (May 5, 2009)

[Bandit LOAF]

These pilot bios, with details on all the cinematic and redshirt wingmen, are clearly the basis for a chunk of the Wing Commander Prophecy official guide -- but the changes are very interesting. If anything, I would say these are better: they generally lack that surreal quality that the versions included in the guide seem to have. One must also wonder what the other wars Maniac is credited with being invovled in were...

These updates are thanks to John "Captain Johnny" Guentzel, who provided several CD image archives of material used by the Wing Commander Prophecy development team!

Pilot Bios
Download (94 kb)

Date: May 25, 1997
Project: Wing Commander Prophecy
Donated By: John Guentzel
Pages: 3

​

--
Original update published on May 5, 2009

 

[Mekt-Hakkikt]

Zero sure sounds less likeable here. And first time I realized "Lieutenant Colonel John "Majestic" Guentzel" and "Lieutenant Colonel Mark "Mustang" A. Vearrier". Nice.

 

[Wedge009]

This is incredibly detailed, even if some of the characters turned out differently in the finished game. I wish this sort of thing was made available in the pilot roster, really helps one to know the pilots better even if Casey didn't talk to everyone on the Midway. Might even make the player feel something for the generic wingmen listed as KIA...