I took the game's DVD videos and upscaled them to 1080p and edited them into a movie. Short gameplay scenes were taken from: www.wcnews.com/holovids/traile...
About the only part of that movie I liked was the opening credits. This game was epic when I first played it in high school.. and the writing holds up pretty damn well to this day.
Ironically I came across Wing Commander as a kid before Star Wars, so Mark Hamil was Blair before he was Luke. Really love this (and heart of the tiger).
I watched sw before playing WC but as a kid i had no idea the actor was the same. Hamill changed a lot and i did not associate Blair with the young light blonde luke back then at all. So it was a shock for me once i found out about it lol.
Wing Commander IV was the absolute best game in the entire series. Period. Best game play, best story, best cast, best acting and a fitting resolution to the complex character of Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn.
"What separates a warrior from a killer? A warrior attacks only when provoked. What makes him human is that he helps those in need, regardless of who or what they are." best quote.
@@ForGlory Instead of "proclaiming it to be wrong" ... maybe you should try EXPLAINING WHY it is wrong. I know "stating something" is taken as "fact" these days with all the #metoo claims and also the bunk accusations against Trump (Russia-Gate, Capitol-Insurrection, ...), but I am one of those old farts who demands proof or at least a logical conclusion. In any case ... the difference between human and animal is that humans CAN decide to "take the hard way" while animals always go by instinct/emotion/the easy route. Far too many _homo sapiens_ are animals.
This was THE pinnacle of video games and I loved every single scene and moment. You really felt as though you were in it there with them. Amazing production. It's unfortunate that it probably cost the developers more to make than they got for this, but it was a work of art. I think some modern games could model themselves after this and perhaps utilize a lot more CGI to make it easier/cheaper to produce.
Star Citizen/Squadron 42 is being marketed as the Next Generation Wing Commander, it took 12 years and 600 million in development so far, so as much as I hate to say it, but to get a new Wing Commander style game takes a massive investment of time and money. I honestly believe it couldn't have been done properly for less at this point. And I am amazed with how many Actors are actually returning to work with Chris Roberts again. I never played Wing Commander myself, only Starlancer and Freelancer, and of course the X-Wing Franchise, but that wasn't by Chris Roberts. It was just a little bit before my time, as I really got into gaming around 1998. Starlancer is still probably one of my favourite games, though I haven't played it in 20 years lol.
@@flashmhp no way!! xD i wann kick some Shivan ass and find and have some serious chat with Mr Bosch. i mean a cliffhanger where some fking star goes supernova has to be the mother of all cliffhangers xD
He was pretty good in this. Hell, I thought the majority of the actors gave a great performance in this. Hamill definitely seemed to actually give a shit here playing Blair versus playing Luke years later in the new Star Wars movies.
@@alucard624 I agree with pretty much everything you said here. All the actors in this game really put a lot into their parts. A far superior "film" than even the Wing Commander movie that came out in 1999 a few years later I think Mark Hamill really didn't enjoy his part in The Last Jedi as evidenced by the numerous interviews he participated in at that time. To be fair though, aside from how they really changed Luke in the film he wasn't really given much to do except mope around for the majority of the film and drink blue milk until his decision to confront Ben at the end
This is fantastic... I remember there's an alternate cinematic if you fly inside the Lexington and use the leech canons instead of torpedoing her. When I first played the game, I was trying to play it as Blair would and try to not kill the CONFED crews. They actually factored that into the game play options!
Quite a few of the actors weren't as well known yet as they are now. Many of them were and still are character actors and thanks to the internet it's just easier to recognize them now after seeing them in so many movies, etc.
@Sanic Gaming was tiny but that game went massively over budget. Keep in mind that Mark Hamill was part of the cast and the game content was largely consisting of film scenes. Chris Roberts is that kind of guy when he has a clear vision but only so much money. Was a great game (even if not all shot scenes aged well). Still hoping Star Citizen gets finished because budget really shouldnt be the problem this time.
Thanks, glad you liked it. Fortunately the game came out with DVD quality videos so it wasn't difficult to upscale its resolution to 1080p via software. It was one of very few games of its era to have such high quality video.
You see this was in an era where a full blown 16m color picture was impossible on Pc let alone full blown video and whatnot. Games like these were utterly like from outer space. And often, as I recall, on most PC you had to select interlaced video playback (scan lines added to reduce image processing) in order for your PC to even play the video footage of Wing Commander IV. Ah those were the times # nostalgia.
bought this the first week it was out, spent the previous 2 months upgrading my computer to the top specs for the game, complete with a trinitron monitor.. I just sat there amazed at a) the number of CD's you had for the game and b) the live action and at that time, quality of everything.
...assuming of course that U didn't get the L8R re-release on DVD-ROM (for Windows 9x installations only, since DOS had no native support for DVD playback) -- which explains why this video isn't pixellated as hell, unlike the initial CD-ROM release. Mmmm ... nostalgic pixellated DOS-game video playback, mmmm....
One of, if not my most, proud gaming moment was reaching the end dialogue and winning the first time through. A game ending dictated by a conversation controlled by the player was unprecedented, never mind in a FLIGHT SIM. God what a feeling.
It is still ahead of 99% of modern games today in that regard - almost all games still typically end in a typically boss battle, cutscene, then credits. This style of ending was truly revolutionary, and is still exceedingly rare by today's standards (only game that immediately comes to mind that ended in this fashion was Mass Effect 3 where you had no real boss battle, just a 40 minute dialogue session followed by cutscene / credits).
@@Hathur Even now you have to really look very hard for games like this where the player has some real choices. This kind of lead the way for things like Heavy Rain or Life is Strange 2.
@@Hathur In the RPG genre there are a lot more, but even there its rare. Planescape Torment, Pillars of Eternity 2, Arcanum and Witcher 2 come to my mid ....
This game was developed on 1997, and yet its storytelling from A-Z exceeds all games I have played even in 2023. The cutscene in the end in the Tribunal itself giving flashbacks from everything they've been through is a marvelous moment. This is how stories should be written. Show the player a piece of what they've been through, connect them to the past and the future. Writers: Watch and learn.
I'm so glad I was kid when this game came out. I got it for free when I brought a DVD-ROM for my old pc and it came with a few DVD-R games. It was ahead of it's time and it was during a time period when it felt like video game company put genuine effort into their games. Money wasn't the prime motivation. Now it's all about pay-to-play, microtransactions and multiplayer/online subscriptions. Missed those days and I still don't hesitate to pick up these classics and play them again. Thanks for posting
Just watched this through again for the first time in 20+ years. Played it so much when I was a teen, I still remember most of the dialogue! This was such an unprecedented game. Storyline and scripted ending still hold-up amongst the best video game experiences ever. And the music is awesome.
Great period of time for space sims.In my fisrt playthrough, i was surprised by the appearance of Chris Roberts in the flashback endind...a brilliant video game director.Great editing, thanks for downloading.
Former soldier in a war goes back to his sandy planet to farm and then gets pulled back in when new enemies arise. Made in 1996 and still better than the Last Jedi.
Same. On my friends 286. Back then when the PC still had a boost button. As if anyone ever unpressed that one... Wing Commander 3 was my first PC game on my 486 with a whopping 8 MB of RAM. Loading times were abysmal. Until I upgraded to 16 MB ;)
A Netflix series would be amazing, but Mark Hamill is far too old to play Blair live action again if it’s set during the Kilrathi War. I’d be all in on either an animated series with a returning cast or a live action series with an all new cast though.
Not to mention that was exactly at the moment in time when everybody was hoping for the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy and was so dissappointed at what we got instead. Looking at Hamill here shows that he was exactly the right age to play Luke again. When it finally happened, well... you know how that turned out.
DVD? LOL, as far as i can remember, it was a 6 (8?) CD-ROM-box back when i played the game 20+ years ago. Did enjoy the game a lot, but thanks to you, i got to enjoy the story as a whole for the first time. Thanks for putting this together!
Really brings back some memories... played this game when I was 22 (and that was 22 years ago), this was the first game I reviewed for my local nation-wide computer magazine. I still have the CDs, along with the WC3 CDs. The WC2 however, in 5.25" floppy disks, with all its expansion packs, were already gone. The same goes to the first WC disks. I also have the WC Privateer, Privateer 2, and WC Armada. I hope someone will create a game like this again, "as if watching a movie but we are the one who gets in action to decide the outcome". No, it was not a "movie in the game", rather it was a "game in the movie". Great work for providing the game movie, thanks
I was 17 when I first played it. I had played WC1, WC2 plus their expansions but skipped WC3 because my pc was too old to play it.. then I got WC4 and WC3 on the same day when WC4 released and played both in an insane 40+ hour gaming session over the weekend (the first time I ever did that.. yeesh did I get sick after that, never repeated that again). One of my fondest gaming memories was playing this game, it was so captivating.
Its part of the Star Citizen universe. But keep in mind even though you can play Star Citizens open world, Arena Commander, And Star Marine, you cant play Squadron 42 yet and everything is still in development, its only in Alpha stage. But I play it and so far its absolutely amazing!
I still get a shiver down my spine at ‘We Create Worlds’. This and WC3 i played so much so, especially with the awesome storytelling. The epitome of the FMV era….
I took the original DVD video version and used software to upscale it from 720 to 1080p, it did a fairly good job overall (when I first played this 20 years ago or so it was with much lower quality video since it was the CD version.. the original was like 240p or 360p quality)
Played this on my playstation. I loved this game so much. You got luke skywalker, biff tannen, and sal from Indiana jones. It was a great cast, and wonderfully done.
This was a fantastic game all around. The "Boys from Brazil" plot was fantastic writing, and even the opening was spectacular. It was well acted and directed too. Malcom brings the right amount of dread and makes a great villain. It's too bad they left all this behind and the next installment was lackluster Prophecy. They should bring back FMV games like these.
Tolwyn was found guilty of crimes against humanity and everything, all good and well... But after you play WC5, you understand that Tolwyn was right in the end. Humanity did encounter an enemy far worse than the Kilrathi and didn't quite know how to cope with it until Blair came and saved the day again... for the last time.
Im 32 years old at game-release. I fly all missions from WC 1 to 4. Now im loocking for adventures in star citizen. and i find a netflix series of WC and Priv was a great idea.
I know that everyone was always in love with Sosa, but I always thought Panther was the bees knees. This game was integral to my childhood. Loved it. Still holds up today. The art design and costumes inspired most of the military sci-fi which followed.
They missed a perfect spot for irony. 1. Maniac finds out about his promotion before he defects 2. He decides not to leave (rank = babes) 3. He ends up in a dogfight with Blair 4. Blair kills him 5. Maniac dies by friendly fire The circle is complete.
I loved playing WC4 and WC3. I played on playstaion, these games were truly break through at the time. The first time I finished them I was genuinely sad that the story had come to a close. I went back and played them multiple times changing my choices just to see the other outcomes. Watching this brought back a wave of nostalgia, to a simpler time for me in my early 20's. In my humble opinion, some more modern games have come close to matching this, (I did like the Mass Effect Trilogy) but none have surpassed them.
I have always wondered if Chris Roberts was watching fansubbed Gundam tapes back in the 1990s (before it was officially released in the West). This game heavily resembles Zeta Gundam - darker feel, and it has a plot with a civil war wherein a sinister fascist branch of the main military (Titans in ZG, Black Lance in WC4) terrorizes civilians through unethical weapons and is opposed by a small scrappy group (AEUG in ZG, Border Worlds in WC4) led by an ace from the previous war (Char in ZG, Blair in WC4). Some of the characters and their melodrama also feel a little bit Tomino-esque (although thank god there's no whiny teenager like Camille here). In the awful 1999 movie you also have the Pilgrims, a new breed of humans who sound a bit like... Newtypes?
This is such an amazing game. They don’t make them like this anymore, that’s for sure! I remember playing this on my old pentium 120mhz, with 16 megabytes of ram. I was about 10 and didn’t clue in at all that you were supposed to defect. When I finally defected in the game, I felt so naughty lol I was a dumb kid
@2:45:14 The man in the gray jacket, he's wearing the rank of a Confederate general from the American Civil War. The Space Marshall, the medal around his neck is the Meritorious Service Medal. Most of the ribbons on his chest are for real medals, but splashed together. It includes the National Defense Service Medal, Navy Marine Corps Achievement Medal, Expeditionary Medal, Army Occupation Medal, Air Medal, and the Philippines Liberation Medal.
One thing I remember about playing this 25 years ago is that I never wanted it to end. This and WC3 were simply spectacular.
WC3 was awesome, i still haven't forgiven Hobbes lol
"just because you're the last man standing doesn't necessarily mean you're a hero."
Man this game really was full of great quotes.
geez this is a better Wing Commander Movie than the Movie that actually got released
Yeah, movies about a video game never work. Super Mario Brothers comes to mind. I hear they have a wing in Hell just for the director of THAT 😛
You've got Biff Tannen and Luke Skywalker! Duh of course it's awesome!
Well if course it is.
This game probably had about the same budget too
About the only part of that movie I liked was the opening credits. This game was epic when I first played it in high school.. and the writing holds up pretty damn well to this day.
I was 21 when that masterpiece was released - hard to believe that I turn 44 this year...
I was 7 or 8 when I beat this for the first time.
Played it in 1997 on ps1 loved it never could do 3
@@therealmovieman 3 was hard as hell.
I second that :-)
I played from WC1 to WC4. I was 23 then. Now 45.
Ironically I came across Wing Commander as a kid before Star Wars, so Mark Hamil was Blair before he was Luke. Really love this (and heart of the tiger).
I watched sw before playing WC but as a kid i had no idea the actor was the same. Hamill changed a lot and i did not associate Blair with the young light blonde luke back then at all. So it was a shock for me once i found out about it lol.
@@R.a.f.a.e.l.it was a shock for me when i found out that the Mechanic from Wing Commander 3 was a former Porn Star ;-)
@@paulanerruhrpott6188 Rachel?!?!
@@paulanerruhrpott6188 jsus christ thank you for ruining my childhood.
Back in the day when half of the excitement when getting a new game was watching the intro's, a long lost art with games today.
to be fair doom eternal fixed that
Wing Commander IV was the absolute best game in the entire series. Period. Best game play, best story, best cast, best acting and a fitting resolution to the complex character of Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn.
25 years old, video game budget, and still light-years better than any of the recent Star Wars or Star Trek stuff.
Amen to that!!
Facts
God people like you are so annoying.
Your either a fair weather fan or a hater stuck in the past. There is nothing wrong w/ todays star wars or star trek.
^^^ That is bait it.
"What separates a warrior from a killer? A warrior attacks only when provoked. What makes him human is that he helps those in need, regardless of who or what they are." best quote.
Paweł Skotnica
But how many
Live up to that
Best quote???
What a convoluted, mangled notion! Who in the world came up with that nonsense one-liner?! Nauseating!
@@ForGlory how is it nonsense and nauseating?
@@ForGlory Instead of "proclaiming it to be wrong" ... maybe you should try EXPLAINING WHY it is wrong. I know "stating something" is taken as "fact" these days with all the #metoo claims and also the bunk accusations against Trump (Russia-Gate, Capitol-Insurrection, ...), but I am one of those old farts who demands proof or at least a logical conclusion.
In any case ... the difference between human and animal is that humans CAN decide to "take the hard way" while animals always go by instinct/emotion/the easy route. Far too many _homo sapiens_ are animals.
i think i just saw that same kind of line in battle star galactica's 1978 ep. The lost patrol.
This was THE pinnacle of video games and I loved every single scene and moment. You really felt as though you were in it there with them. Amazing production. It's unfortunate that it probably cost the developers more to make than they got for this, but it was a work of art. I think some modern games could model themselves after this and perhaps utilize a lot more CGI to make it easier/cheaper to produce.
I’d easily take this over glitzy graphics if it meant we can get a better focus on production, gameplay and story like this again.
Star Citizen/Squadron 42 is being marketed as the Next Generation Wing Commander, it took 12 years and 600 million in development so far, so as much as I hate to say it, but to get a new Wing Commander style game takes a massive investment of time and money. I honestly believe it couldn't have been done properly for less at this point. And I am amazed with how many Actors are actually returning to work with Chris Roberts again. I never played Wing Commander myself, only Starlancer and Freelancer, and of course the X-Wing Franchise, but that wasn't by Chris Roberts. It was just a little bit before my time, as I really got into gaming around 1998. Starlancer is still probably one of my favourite games, though I haven't played it in 20 years lol.
If there is a series of games that deserve a remaster... it the Wing Commander series.
I'm pretty sure there's a community project that's updating it using the free space engine. It called wing commander saga
With everything that's changed?
well id say Free Space ^^ Give me part 3 or die trying ^^. or give the modders some ressources so they can finish their Blue Planet mod campaign
Try Star Citizen, but forever in alpha :)
@@flashmhp no way!! xD i wann kick some Shivan ass and find and have some serious chat with Mr Bosch. i mean a cliffhanger where some fking star goes supernova has to be the mother of all cliffhangers xD
This was by far one of Malcolm McDowell's greatest roles.
He was pretty good in this. Hell, I thought the majority of the actors gave a great performance in this. Hamill definitely seemed to actually give a shit here playing Blair versus playing Luke years later in the new Star Wars movies.
@@alucard624 I agree with pretty much everything you said here. All the actors in this game really put a lot into their parts. A far superior "film" than even the Wing Commander movie that came out in 1999 a few years later
I think Mark Hamill really didn't enjoy his part in The Last Jedi as evidenced by the numerous interviews he participated in at that time. To be fair though, aside from how they really changed Luke in the film he wasn't really given much to do except mope around for the majority of the film and drink blue milk until his decision to confront Ben at the end
this game, and its cut scenes in between, were so so so immersive back then, it was insane.
This is fantastic... I remember there's an alternate cinematic if you fly inside the Lexington and use the leech canons instead of torpedoing her. When I first played the game, I was trying to play it as Blair would and try to not kill the CONFED crews. They actually factored that into the game play options!
It surprised me to watch so many superstars took part as cameos in this game.
Mark Dacascos, Casper van Dien and so many many more!
They really went over budget there. Awesome game at the time though.
@@haraldhimmel5687 over budget is typical for Chris Roberts.
Quite a few of the actors weren't as well known yet as they are now. Many of them were and still are character actors and thanks to the internet it's just easier to recognize them now after seeing them in so many movies, etc.
@Sanic Gaming was tiny but that game went massively over budget. Keep in mind that Mark Hamill was part of the cast and the game content was largely consisting of film scenes. Chris Roberts is that kind of guy when he has a clear vision but only so much money. Was a great game (even if not all shot scenes aged well). Still hoping Star Citizen gets finished because budget really shouldnt be the problem this time.
... wait, Mark Dacascos?
Holy crap - Mark Dacascos was Catscratch!
It’s amazing how high quality the video is from a mid 90s game. Loved this game SO much as a kid. Thanks for the upload
Thanks, glad you liked it. Fortunately the game came out with DVD quality videos so it wasn't difficult to upscale its resolution to 1080p via software. It was one of very few games of its era to have such high quality video.
You see this was in an era where a full blown 16m color picture was impossible on Pc let alone full blown video and whatnot. Games like these were utterly like from outer space. And often, as I recall, on most PC you had to select interlaced video playback (scan lines added to reduce image processing) in order for your PC to even play the video footage of Wing Commander IV. Ah those were the times # nostalgia.
Always was, and always will be my all time favorite game. One of the very first I played. Very happy to see it again!
bought this the first week it was out, spent the previous 2 months upgrading my computer to the top specs for the game, complete with a trinitron monitor.. I just sat there amazed at a) the number of CD's you had for the game and b) the live action and at that time, quality of everything.
...assuming of course that U didn't get the L8R re-release on DVD-ROM (for Windows 9x installations only, since DOS had no native support for DVD playback) -- which explains why this video isn't pixellated as hell, unlike the initial CD-ROM release.
Mmmm ... nostalgic pixellated DOS-game video playback, mmmm....
Same. A lot of lawn mowing money went into computer upgrades to play this game
I played this game a long time ago... And saw that movie from 1999, and still think that this particular game/movie is a hell a lot better!!
Grampa agrees wit you got the game in 1996 with my first computer
One of, if not my most, proud gaming moment was reaching the end dialogue and winning the first time through.
A game ending dictated by a conversation controlled by the player was unprecedented, never mind in a FLIGHT SIM.
God what a feeling.
It is still ahead of 99% of modern games today in that regard - almost all games still typically end in a typically boss battle, cutscene, then credits. This style of ending was truly revolutionary, and is still exceedingly rare by today's standards (only game that immediately comes to mind that ended in this fashion was Mass Effect 3 where you had no real boss battle, just a 40 minute dialogue session followed by cutscene / credits).
I remember getting to the end and agonizing over the choices once I realized I could lose. The last mission was long. Fortunately I got the win also.
@@Hathur Even now you have to really look very hard for games like this where the player has some real choices. This kind of lead the way for things like Heavy Rain or Life is Strange 2.
"Is that the price of freedom tolwyn"?
Last dialogues, there it is. What youve played for the last SIX cd's.
Still goosebumps ☺️
@@Hathur In the RPG genre there are a lot more, but even there its rare. Planescape Torment, Pillars of Eternity 2, Arcanum and Witcher 2 come to my mid ....
"Maniac...shut up." Such an awesome ending.
That's what happens when you roll a bomber not a fighter lmao, love Maniac!
Not as epic as "Shut up Wesley" ... but very close.
What a cast ! Luke Skywalker, Sallah from Indiana Jones, Alex from Clockwork Orange, Biff Tannen from Back to the Future and the Crying Freeman !
You forgot Gimli from The Lord of the Rings. ;-)
@@10cu7u5 who do you think sallah is🤔. Clue, both are played by Rhys Davies😉
Man know his cinema!
@@Steventrafford Yes Gimli and Sallah same actor, thanks !
This was and still is my favorite of the Wing Commander series of games. So glad GOG re-released them to be playable on modern PC's.
Man I wish Chris would've hired Tom Wilson for Squadron 42 as well. Maniac is such an iconic videogame character!
maybe they have and he's in the redacted list of actors
The actor will be long dead by the time the game is released.
How many ship jpegs does it cost to hire Tom Wilson?
This game was developed on 1997, and yet its storytelling from A-Z exceeds all games I have played even in 2023. The cutscene in the end in the Tribunal itself giving flashbacks from everything they've been through is a marvelous moment. This is how stories should be written. Show the player a piece of what they've been through, connect them to the past and the future. Writers: Watch and learn.
Wing Commander II was my introduction to the series, but this one will always be my favorite.
After all those centuries biff still hates manure.
I expected maniac to say "Hello, Mcfly" any second
This is so mesmerizing to watch, anything with mark hamill is engrossing to me, I love it!
I'm so glad I was kid when this game came out. I got it for free when I brought a DVD-ROM for my old pc and it came with a few DVD-R games. It was ahead of it's time and it was during a time period when it felt like video game company put genuine effort into their games. Money wasn't the prime motivation. Now it's all about pay-to-play, microtransactions and multiplayer/online subscriptions. Missed those days and I still don't hesitate to pick up these classics and play them again. Thanks for posting
Just watched this through again for the first time in 20+ years. Played it so much when I was a teen, I still remember most of the dialogue!
This was such an unprecedented game. Storyline and scripted ending still hold-up amongst the best video game experiences ever. And the music is awesome.
Great period of time for space sims.In my fisrt playthrough, i was surprised by the appearance of Chris Roberts in the flashback endind...a brilliant video game director.Great editing, thanks for downloading.
Binge watching for the umpteenth times… 👍 I’m 51 years old and my bro and I still loves it…let’s do it!
Former soldier in a war goes back to his sandy planet to farm and then gets pulled back in when new enemies arise. Made in 1996 and still better than the Last Jedi.
LOL u killed it
I beg to differ! TLJ was the best SW movie ever made! the rubber fish, giant sea cow milk ..hard to argue with genius level movie making like that.
And to top it off Hamill actually looks interested in the part here versus TLJ.
Amen
I played Wing Commander I and II in 1991 ! damn I feel old......
Same. On my friends 286.
Back then when the PC still had a boost button. As if anyone ever unpressed that one...
Wing Commander 3 was my first PC game on my 486 with a whopping 8 MB of RAM.
Loading times were abysmal. Until I upgraded to 16 MB ;)
I am a Wing Commander Fan since the first release. Thank you Sir
a wing commander netflix series with mark hamill, that would be a dream come true
During the early days of the kilrathi war with Blair and Maniac fresh out of the Academy. Then a privateer series running concurrent.
People would complain about it, namely butthurt Star Wars geeks who complained about Mark Hamill's character Lujke Skywalker dying in Last Jedi.
Not after The Last Jedi - i just can't look into Mark Hamills eyes ever again.
A Netflix series would be amazing, but Mark Hamill is far too old to play Blair live action again if it’s set during the Kilrathi War. I’d be all in on either an animated series with a returning cast or a live action series with an all new cast though.
@@Feenucks i think hamill could be in it just not be a pilot..
BTW, this is way better than that film released on theaters.
Luke Skywalker, Jules Pierre Mao, and Biff walk into a bar...
Not to mention that was exactly at the moment in time when everybody was hoping for the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy and was so dissappointed at what we got instead.
Looking at Hamill here shows that he was exactly the right age to play Luke again. When it finally happened, well... you know how that turned out.
you forgot Juan Rico! he is from buenos aires and he says catnip em all!
Thanks for the HD upload! Brings back a lot of good memories.
No problem, enjoy :)
I grew up playing WC Prophecy, but never touched the old games. I'll have to give this one a shot.
foxhound6364 first you have to play WC3 then 4 :) i prefer them both to Prophecy, story-wise...
Absolute classic got this for my 15th birthday.
Thank you so much for uploading this!
Still great after all the years... thanks for posting
DVD? LOL, as far as i can remember, it was a 6 (8?) CD-ROM-box back when i played the game 20+ years ago. Did enjoy the game a lot, but thanks to you, i got to enjoy the story as a whole for the first time. Thanks for putting this together!
ah yes, back in the days when Chris Roberts actually finished games :)
heh
Why finish when you can have a perpetual cash cow?
@@robertmorris8997 The fact people keep giving that scam artist money for Star Citizen is pretty sad.
@@alucard624 Yeah I know. But I haven't accepted the updated terms of service so I can still get a refund.
Its like watching a strange mix of B5 and Star Wars. Great memories from these games!
Really brings back some memories... played this game when I was 22 (and that was 22 years ago), this was the first game I reviewed for my local nation-wide computer magazine. I still have the CDs, along with the WC3 CDs. The WC2 however, in 5.25" floppy disks, with all its expansion packs, were already gone. The same goes to the first WC disks. I also have the WC Privateer, Privateer 2, and WC Armada.
I hope someone will create a game like this again, "as if watching a movie but we are the one who gets in action to decide the outcome". No, it was not a "movie in the game", rather it was a "game in the movie".
Great work for providing the game movie, thanks
I was 17 when I first played it. I had played WC1, WC2 plus their expansions but skipped WC3 because my pc was too old to play it.. then I got WC4 and WC3 on the same day when WC4 released and played both in an insane 40+ hour gaming session over the weekend (the first time I ever did that.. yeesh did I get sick after that, never repeated that again). One of my fondest gaming memories was playing this game, it was so captivating.
They are making a new one just like this. With some of the actors returning. Here th-cam.com/video/a5Q-QFvFHxg/w-d-xo.html
Its part of the Star Citizen universe. But keep in mind even though you can play Star Citizens open world, Arena Commander, And Star Marine, you cant play Squadron 42 yet and everything is still in development, its only in Alpha stage. But I play it and so far its absolutely amazing!
I loved the game, in fact I still have the discs. They should reboot / remake this series instead of stuck citizen vapourware that goes no where.
Mass effect series was that kind of game. Not cinematic but totally epic. Great experience.
I still get a shiver down my spine at ‘We Create Worlds’.
This and WC3 i played so much so, especially with the awesome storytelling.
The epitome of the FMV era….
Dude never realized Casper Van Dien was in this
This is so well made thank you very much! The upscaling is fantastic
Oh no, it's Evil Leo McGarry!!!! RIP John Spencer, you were something else.
To me he'll always be Womack from The Rock. What a great actor.
@@alucard624 Same!
Loved (and played the hell out of) this game when it came out!
I'm surprised at how good the video quality is.
I took the original DVD video version and used software to upscale it from 720 to 1080p, it did a fairly good job overall (when I first played this 20 years ago or so it was with much lower quality video since it was the CD version.. the original was like 240p or 360p quality)
I thought it didn't look this good back when I played it. You did a great job improving it.
@@Hathur excellent!! Well done
A masterpiece...just like wc3
ah the time when watching videos on a pc was a novelty.
They hired Luke Skywalker for the games, but used the scream dorks for the actual movie?
Thanks so much for patching this together
Imagining Mark Hamill going into this bar and getting yelled at by the bartender: "Hey, we don't serve this kind in here..." "Oh, shut the f*** up!!!"
Mark Hamill plays a farmer, hmm, where have we heard that before...
Also on a desert planet too
And keep in mind in 3 he flew a single Excalibur to drop a bomb in a vet small tectonic fault.
Again, where have we heard that before?
@@SNARC15 wow, now that is spooky...🤔
This time he wants to BE the farmer instead of heading for the stars.
One of my favorite games! Such nostalgia.. Remembered the tons of CDs it came with!
Oh man! I played this so many times before many of you were born.....
I played this when it first came out when I was in my early teens.. played for 3 days straight non stop no sleep.. I got so sick hehe.
Some of it was almost pitch perfect recall.
Say wasn't Col. Blair in "Star Wars"? I swear I have seen him somewhere before....
@@edalder2000 the wing commander 3 blooper reel lmao
Still have the PC-game in its box. Man I played this game for hours. Videos were great :-)
Played this game every night till my ex destroyed my disk and wiped the program off my computer
Played this on my playstation. I loved this game so much. You got luke skywalker, biff tannen, and sal from Indiana jones. It was a great cast, and wonderfully done.
I just remembered my Voodoo 3 Graphics card. I got it just for the Game. Big as Suitcase. Had the make a big hole in to the PC rig.
This is quite good, someone should give the director of this game half a billion dollars to make another one.
Oh but they did. And they keep on givin
18:56 Can't believe they got Casper Van Dien to play an extra just a year before he starred in Starship Troopers..
Weird huh how things can go.
@@TheDutchGhostLast movie I saw him in was Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf…
@@grahamstrouse1165 Oh boy. I guess it earns a paycheck but it is not really a production I think actors like to be known for having starred in.
This was a fantastic game all around. The "Boys from Brazil" plot was fantastic writing, and even the opening was spectacular. It was well acted and directed too. Malcom brings the right amount of dread and makes a great villain. It's too bad they left all this behind and the next installment was lackluster Prophecy. They should bring back FMV games like these.
Tolwyn was found guilty of crimes against humanity and everything, all good and well... But after you play WC5, you understand that Tolwyn was right in the end. Humanity did encounter an enemy far worse than the Kilrathi and didn't quite know how to cope with it until Blair came and saved the day again... for the last time.
Im 32 years old at game-release. I fly all missions from WC 1 to 4. Now im loocking for adventures in star citizen. and i find a netflix series of WC and Priv was a great idea.
The past where story was important for games !! Miss that time !!!
I know that everyone was always in love with Sosa, but I always thought Panther was the bees knees. This game was integral to my childhood. Loved it. Still holds up today. The art design and costumes inspired most of the military sci-fi which followed.
Same here. I was in love with her when I was a child 🥲
No, it was the helm girl
LMFAO.. can't believe I played this game 20 over years ago. 5 f*cking straight days without sleep!
When Tolwyn is addressing the Black Lance, all I can imagine is John Henry Eaton.
To me it is all Wing Commander... .. the game in some degree shaped my life and childhood.. ..
Mark Hamil plays a guy who was an ace fighter pilot that became a farmer AFTER the war...
Sounds like what happened to Obi-Wan if you just tweek some things doesn't it?
They missed a perfect spot for irony.
1. Maniac finds out about his promotion before he defects
2. He decides not to leave (rank = babes)
3. He ends up in a dogfight with Blair
4. Blair kills him
5. Maniac dies by friendly fire
The circle is complete.
Blair was yanking his chain about the promotion.
I’m so glad I got to play the dvd version of this too. Much better video quality and only one disc that was dual sided!!
Nice work! Thank you for your work and effort you did! Greetings from Austria 🇦🇹
So many playthroughs, the game I played the most in the 90's. Although I don't miss having to add the next disc.
Here 23 years later getting nostalgic
I loved playing WC4 and WC3. I played on playstaion, these games were truly break through at the time. The first time I finished them I was genuinely sad that the story had come to a close. I went back and played them multiple times changing my choices just to see the other outcomes. Watching this brought back a wave of nostalgia, to a simpler time for me in my early 20's. In my humble opinion, some more modern games have come close to matching this, (I did like the Mass Effect Trilogy) but none have surpassed them.
This is at the top of my favourite games of all time. Gameplay so so, immersiveness 110%.
I have always wondered if Chris Roberts was watching fansubbed Gundam tapes back in the 1990s (before it was officially released in the West). This game heavily resembles Zeta Gundam - darker feel, and it has a plot with a civil war wherein a sinister fascist branch of the main military (Titans in ZG, Black Lance in WC4) terrorizes civilians through unethical weapons and is opposed by a small scrappy group (AEUG in ZG, Border Worlds in WC4) led by an ace from the previous war (Char in ZG, Blair in WC4). Some of the characters and their melodrama also feel a little bit Tomino-esque (although thank god there's no whiny teenager like Camille here). In the awful 1999 movie you also have the Pilgrims, a new breed of humans who sound a bit like... Newtypes?
This is such an amazing game. They don’t make them like this anymore, that’s for sure!
I remember playing this on my old pentium 120mhz, with 16 megabytes of ram. I was about 10 and didn’t clue in at all that you were supposed to defect. When I finally defected in the game, I felt so naughty lol I was a dumb kid
@2:45:14 The man in the gray jacket, he's wearing the rank of a Confederate general from the American Civil War.
The Space Marshall, the medal around his neck is the Meritorious Service Medal. Most of the ribbons on his chest are for real medals, but splashed together. It includes the National Defense Service Medal, Navy Marine Corps Achievement Medal, Expeditionary Medal, Army Occupation Medal, Air Medal, and the Philippines Liberation Medal.
18:57 ITS JOHNNY RICO!!!
When Rico passed his pilot test instead of signing up for mobile infantry lol
4:38 it's Prof. Maximillian Arturo! :D
@@spankeyfish Yep and he's no blistering idiot.
Wow, another reason to love Wing Commander
You got representatives from Star Wars, Star Trek, Starship Troopers, Babylon 5, Stargate...it's a veritable who's-who of sci-fi actors in this piece.
Love this series!!! Would love to see another one made.
Blair: "I swear the next person who calls me Kid gets a lightsaber appendectomy"
And some Joker gas while we're at it to boot
I'm old enough to remember when Chris Roberts games came out.
LOVED this game so much back in the day. Still play it now and again.
58:35
Yes, it's me again, Bob Evil.
The only thing missing in some of these scenes is a silhouette of a guy and two robots.
First time I saw that scene, I thought the same thing, spoken in Mike Nelson's voice.
One of the best games ever. Absolutely amazing. :)
i love how they gave Wilson (maniac) freedom to ad-lib some parts
Awesome game,
Awesome Movie.
Thank you for Posting.
This game was just amazing. Story, gameplay, all of it. Even the booklet it came with that held all 6 or 7 cd's needed to install it 😂🤷♂️
Tom Willison sure looks like he was having fun with his part.
Holy shit! This was fantastic!
This might actually be Mark Hamill's best performance.
re-watching this some 20ish years later and oh dear, Tolwyn maybe you fooled me as a kid, but you can't fool me now!
This brings back memories, one of my favourite games on the ps1.
Wow... it's like every actor I look up to is in this "movie"! Mark Decascos!?