Making the Games: Wing Commander IV Capital Ships (October 30, 2008)

[Bandit LOAF]

Yesterday we showed you eleven Wing Commander IV 'action pose' ship images. They were used by the official site and the Official Guide back in 1995-6... but what both of those products lacked were any imagery of the game's other ships. Carriers, destroyers, bases, transports and the like were all left out. Until now! These eleven images were apparently rendered for the same purpose, but never used. This is the first time anyone outside of Origin has had such a close-up view of the amazing high resolution models created for The Price of Freedom!

Thanks to Captain Johnny for both archiving and providing this material!

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Original update published on October 30, 2008

 

[Vinman]

AAAAWESOME!!!

I can certainly see why those textures wouldn't shrink down well.

 

[Dundradal]

Gorgeous, gorgeous, GORGEOUS!

Ella looks amazing!

No Vesuvius though? Was one made for it or is it another "lost" one?

 

[Bandit LOAF]

No Vesuvius though? Was one made for it or is it another "lost" one?

We don't know, since we've never seen these before.

 

[Dyret]

Yellow intakes!

Did those make it into the game? I though Border Worlds had red like the kilrathi.

 

[Bandit LOAF]

It is... it is green:

 

[Dyret]

Heh, looking at the high res version again they're greenish there too.