What more could a Wing Commander Fan ask for ..........cheers to some guy named queeg he made this video not me ..i just downloaded this one from the net.
No game is ever going to match the WC3 "Starring In Your Own Movie" experience. .... absolutely the Best Game Of All Time. ... THIS cut scene collection is GREAT. ... thanx.
Squadron 42 just might. I've very high hopes that it is going to be a true spiritual successor not bound by any constraints. I think SC will be a cool MMO, but it is an MMO and all MMO's suffer from certain game mechanics I don't particularly enjoy.
As a kid, back in '94 or '95, I saw the longbox for this game featured in Babbage's a lot. I always thought "hey, that's Luke Skywalker and Sallah." I also felt quite jealous that my Sega CD couldn't have big budget titles that were half the game of this. We got Corey Feldman in Double Switch, Blair Underwood in Sewer Shark, or some no-name in something like Loadstar or Tomcat Alley. Sure, Wing Commander 3 is very cheesy in spots, but it has its charm. Honestly, I would consider its cheesiness much closer to that of Babylon 5 than I would in comparing Sega CD FMV games to Battlestar Galactica (the 80s version).
and Ginger! She's not a real ginger. Believe me, I've checked in one of her other videos. (Plinkett Voice) She's highly decorated & received so many awards, but not for wing commander.
@@Deverik1981 If there was a floppy version of WCIII it must have been a lot of floppies. I had it on cd-s, as in, 4-cd-s i think? Now, considering the biggest floppy i knew of could have 2 megabytes (But the 1.4 meg one was the common one), while CD-s had around 650 megabytes if i recall right. Maybe a cracked version where they removed all the video cutscenes, or else it would have been hundreds of floppy disks.
They should of just called these actors back tweaked the effects with the much bigger budget and made this the movie with a small back story at the beginning for thise who never played the games.
I can’t purge my memory of Freddie squeaking the line “I love this baby!” or that lame Matrix-inspired freeze and pan of Freddie’s two pilot friends. Damn, that movie sucked.
Truly one of the best games in history, memorable to this day. Once the Wing Commander series ended, it was a huge loss. As excited as I was to see the movie in theaters, that Wing Commander movie was a disappointment, nothing like the games. I remember WC3 was shot using a green screen and green controls. WC4, was shot using a real set. Malcolm McDowell talked about going to the super market and kids running up to him calling him "Admiral Tolwin". When Electronic Arts got the series there was one more Wing Commander game, but it wasn't the same, nothing like WC3 and WC4. I think they killed it, they lost touch of the concept of the series being an interactive movie with movie music and all the trimmings. WC3 and WC4 did it right. Glad to see this on TH-cam.
Prophecy was pretty good game play wise. It didn't match the interactive movie element of WC4. But it was hard to build up on something new using something as legendary as Wing Commander as your base.
Never got to play these games as a kid, only heard of them. Watching this in 2012 gives me chills regardless, loving the acting and the old-school CGI! Mark Hamill being a badass is always entertaining :D
Fun trivia: Vaquero talks enthusiastically about his dreams about opening a cantina. In the opening of Predator 2, Julian Reyes is distraught over the destruction of his cantina😄Thanks for the upload btw. It’s great. One of my childhood favorites.
I just love this game. And part 4. So many good memories. Fantastic characters, story, score, ship design and exciting combat (/hits TAB for afterburners).
these types of graphics were amazing back in the day, not because they were realistic, but because "oh wow, they are standing next to the snazzy graphics they actually can do that now" instead of worrying about if it was realistic or not.
This was one of the best games and best I can remember playing. The plot was amazing, possibly the greatest cast ever put together for a game. I can only show my appreciation by commenting here.
Its amazing how in the 90s the used real actors in video games like this but these days they animate them. Surely with technological advances they could do this more.
"Surely with technological advances they could do this more." WRONG ... it is BECAUSE OF technological advances that people have become addicted to fancy graphics and bigger explosions ... and acting is soooo '90s and seen as backwards. "Modern technology" has become a religion (which is proven every time a new iPhone or something similar is released) and part of this religion is to absolutely diss anything from previous decades. Oh and just look at people react VIOLENTLY to their games not running at 60 fps or 4k ultra graphics. As if we had to be tortured to play games like this in the past.
I think it is more a case of money. Paying animators is a lot cheaper than paying actors. Also, when you make sequels, animations can be reused or modified, but actors will charge a lot to come back for a sequel.
I heard Ginger Lynn was the only actor who was really interested in the technology of the shoot, and that she seemed to be by far the most enthusiastic member of the cast. It shows. Go Ginger!
It started with Eisen responded "I like that enthusiasm!" when Blair said "Ready to go, sir!" During one of the briefings and continuing through the tour of duty. Blair was always ready to go to work, whether things were going well or going to hell.
They used that soundbyte on the PC version when you tested the sound card. First time I installed it and ran the test, I thought "What the hell is he on about?"
If ever I was to bump into Mark Hamill I would literally take him off guard and knock him sideways. "Yes, yes, its me lu.." - "Colonal Christopher Blair, Ace pilot for the confederation. Man, you were so good in that game, have you considered doing films?"
It really ticked me off that turned out to be the traitor. That being said, even with the outdated graphics and cheesy backdrops, this is still a better Wing Commander Movie than the actual Wing Commander movie. Hell, the Kilrathi actually looked like Kilrathi in this.
Making him a traitor from the start was really cheap. He should have been genuinely on Confed's side right up until he discovered the plan to destroy , and that should have been what forced him turn to the other side. Much more dramatic and plausible.
Ralgha underwent and artificial personality overlay that led to another personality, entirely. This Ralgha would save a human child, defect to the Confederation, even fly against his own kind to end the decades of millions dying on both sides of the conflict. Thrakhath held him in high regard and trusted him with an assignment that would likely have never succeeded in placing a spy in a fortuitous time and place. Not sure if it was always planned from early in the series, but there were also Kilrathi and an entire world who did consciously rebel from the Empire, ironically, with the aid of Hobbes.
+Thor13332 It had that certain "So bad, it's good" charm to it. Great surround mix and one of the first movies I saw on DVD, and it was just so much better than VHS.
I'm not a fan of Wing Commander (or did I ever play the games) so I can't say if it was true to the games. But as a simple sci-fi action movie that was "Top Gun in space", I actually enjoyed it. It is a guilty pleasure and after recently watching it, it doesn't hold up, but it's still fun to watch.
God, thank you for posting this! It brings back so many memories. I actually went out and bought a new PC just so I could run this awesome game. The graphics were so cutting edge back then. All the WC series. Including Privateer. Thanks again!
Very well done! When the Wing Commander movie came out, I skipped it and watched these cut scenes instead. This was a Wing Commander movie worthy of the franchise. The theatrical movie wasn't nearly as good as the cut scenes from III and IV. The game videos had a better cast, better performances, and better stories.
Daniel Glaser Thank you, and yes you are spot on the Wing Commander Movie had nothing to do with the game franchise what so ever terrible terrible terrible. I mean why change a winning formula? made no sense to me.
1.) Biff Tanner getting OWNED by Luke Skywalker = Awesome. 2.) It was an emotional gut punch when Blair's best friend, Hobbs, was revealed to be a traitor, making the racist pilot, Cobra, right. 3.) Rachel > Flint
+Joe Young Hobbs isn't technically a traitor. His fake persona was truthfully loyal to Blair. No one had any way to know it was brainwashing and if and when it would wear off.
Still, it raises the intriguing question: we're Buckley's actions justified because her paranoia was proven right? I always felt that the Victory was a ship for undesirables, and Cobra was probably put there for being untenable in the first place...still, Hobbes' whole story arc was the first time I was introduced to the situational morality so common in warfare, and it tasted as horrible ot hear his "betrayal and honour" speech then as it did hearing it again for the first time in o'er a decade... Either way, I'm so glad someone told be about WC back in '98 when I was playing Colony Wars and mentioned the mission system, still in my top 3 flight games/series.
As a kid I legit thought the Behemot mission was the last of the game and was just extremely hard (and the dual with the bad guy would happen wether his world was destroyed or not) so I retried it again and again countless time until I gave up ... Rewatching my lair mate dying, and being abandoned by my fleet again and again left an indelible mark in my mind...
I beat this game like 3 times for the endings alone..though i prefered the hot chick pilot to the mechanic...but all the big name actors..none the least of which was none other than Mr Mark Hamill himself...graphics were top notch for the day and all the in ship dialogue options that really played a difference later on ....what more could a gamer ask for...ahhh they sure don't make em like they used to...what a pity...thanks for the upload...i've gotta get my daughter to watch this somehow since she was like 1 or 2 when i played it.....thats the only real problem i have with this (or am going to have} LOL.......
This is incredible and way better than the movie, of course!! This was the best Wing Commander of all the series and was so cutting edge for the time. This franchise can be easily rebooted on the big screen, stick to the canon and will be so successful. I've read many of the Wing Commander novels and they were awesome! Wing Commander is the best video game franchise of all time.
Whoa... I'm a younger very modern gamer: trapped between the battle of Halo vs Call of Duty, deeply disappointed with the conclusion of mass effect, and constantly upgrading whenever a new console/game is shat out with slightly better graphics. Yet... I was fucking mesmerized throughout this entire video. They don’t make em’ like that anymore. Thank you for uploading this.
He is the uncle to the actor, who play Dr. Bashir on Star Trek DS9 :) McDowell is the maternal uncle of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actor Alexander Siddig.
I'm so glad I got to play this game in its heyday. The ensemble cast, storyline, gameplay and atmosphere were all brilliant. Thanks for the great upload :-)
This and Under a Killing Moon were the two games that took that "interactive movie" thing in a positive direction. Both released withing two months of each other, and both the first games to ship on 4CDs, too. And now we have Tex Murphy 6 and Star Citizen coming out after all these years. Good time to be a gamer.
Holy crap. I had no idea someone made a youtube video of this game... It was fun as hell back in the day.... yea yea im showing my age screw you.. lmao
1:41:09 Gotta admit it is weird seeing Rachel and Blair go at it so much and then not acknowledge each other at all in WC-prophecy....and see her go after a much younger pilot
Tom Wilson, Mark Hamill and Malcolm McDowell reprise their roles in Wing Commander Academy too. it only ran for a season but it was pretty good. on the same level as Exosquad or Xmen
holy shit.. childhood memories flowing like a river. Also, I like how there are so many notable actors in such an old game. Bet it had a super small budget too.
It cost 3-4 million, at the time making it the most expensive game ever created. It's rumored that Mark Hamil got significant gross points of game sales, learning his lesson from Star Wars, and that the earnings from Wing Commander, not Star Wars were his big payday.
This game was legend and still a legend..I play computer games for more than 20 years and this is the only game i have played and finished more than 5 times..I really want to see a reboot with the latest VR or a continuation of the story...i still have a score to settle with those bugs..
wow Mark Hamill in this looks rough with facial hair, has the growl in his voice of a battle hardened vet and is much more sure of himself, definitely acts like a soldier i like it
Thx for the video. I had forgotten how much I loved this game. I played all the WC games and III was always my favorite. It wasn't quite as flashy as IV or Prophecy, but it had a certain something that the others just didn't quite capture I think. I still mourn the day that WC was put into mothballs. Wish they would bring it back again. Heck, I wish they'd bring back Privateer too! lol
I’ve never seen flying that bad before. I’ve never seen the captain say that before. My 14 year old self was a beast on this game. Wish I had footage of it.
I remember playing the Wing Commander games a loooong time ago in a galaxy far far .......... In my room and loving them :). They should make another Wing Commander game ! Going to download them on Origin i think
@@judeconstantine2767 Childish terms like "soyness" are born just becasue of people who are politcally obsessed. Lets outgrow that immature language and tribal behavior as a whole, how about that? ;-) No credible person uses those internet troll words anyway.
+PetersonZF This is the greatest line in the cut-scenes. The way it was delivered made me spit my water out of my nose. "You'll need to nail -- every last one of them." "Consider them nailed, sir." "God, I love that boy's spunk!"
At 1:13, it's more fun if you tell Rachel you don't want company. You keep drinking and have to fly the next mission drunk with all the controls moving at random.
Good old days of gaming...and the only one that Mark Hamill was willing to come back for as an actor after years of being in many little-known films that could never measure up to his once success as Luke Skywalker of Star Wars
Who else is watching this in 2017 because THE LAST JEDI giving you nostalgia for luke? I hope Luke doesn't die. But stupid coworkers are betting on it.
No game is ever going to match the WC3 "Starring In Your Own Movie" experience. .... absolutely the Best Game Of All Time. ... THIS cut scene collection is GREAT. ... thanx.
Your welcome thanx for watching it
Yes it will Star Citizen :)
Star Citizen will never be so world renowned as the Wing Commander brand, thats just a fact.
Squadron 42 just might. I've very high hopes that it is going to be a true spiritual successor not bound by any constraints. I think SC will be a cool MMO, but it is an MMO and all MMO's suffer from certain game mechanics I don't particularly enjoy.
In this day and age games just can't reach the heights that they did in the 90's...the WOW factor has just been lost, sad but true!
Gimli and Luke Skywalker fighting space Tiger's alongside Biff Tannen under the orders of Clockwork Orange himself? How are you not Hyped?!
under orders of Alex DeLarge*, himself.
As a kid, back in '94 or '95, I saw the longbox for this game featured in Babbage's a lot. I always thought "hey, that's Luke Skywalker and Sallah." I also felt quite jealous that my Sega CD couldn't have big budget titles that were half the game of this. We got Corey Feldman in Double Switch, Blair Underwood in Sewer Shark, or some no-name in something like Loadstar or Tomcat Alley.
Sure, Wing Commander 3 is very cheesy in spots, but it has its charm. Honestly, I would consider its cheesiness much closer to that of Babylon 5 than I would in comparing Sega CD FMV games to Battlestar Galactica (the 80s version).
@@LorenHelgeson I was so thankful my pentium was able to play this in '95. Holy shit the nostalgia. 🥰
Damn bro, Mark Hamill, John Rys-Davies, Malcolm McDowell. Quality actors for a quality game
don't forget Tim Curry.
and Ginger! She's not a real ginger. Believe me, I've checked in one of her other videos. (Plinkett Voice) She's highly decorated & received so many awards, but not for wing commander.
and then they make the movie with unknown actors
How about Jason Bernard?
François Chau from the Expanse.
only a 90s kid understands what its like to have to insert a different DVD disc every time you tried to fly your ship to a new area.
I would assume that even more adults enjoyed that experience ;-)
CD disk, those were CD-s.
Kid?? I was in my 30s when I played this!
@@_Muzolf could have swore they were 💾 but I'm probably thinking of Wing Commander II. 🤔
@@Deverik1981 If there was a floppy version of WCIII it must have been a lot of floppies. I had it on cd-s, as in, 4-cd-s i think? Now, considering the biggest floppy i knew of could have 2 megabytes (But the 1.4 meg one was the common one), while CD-s had around 650 megabytes if i recall right. Maybe a cracked version where they removed all the video cutscenes, or else it would have been hundreds of floppy disks.
FAR better than the actual Wing Commander movie.
They should of just called these actors back tweaked the effects with the much bigger budget and made this the movie with a small back story at the beginning for thise who never played the games.
especially the Kilrathi. In the movie they looked like mutated rats...
@@HarryMudd Never understood how Chris Roberts allowed the movie version to look like that. I mean it's his baby and he was also the director.
I can’t purge my memory of Freddie squeaking the line “I love this baby!” or that lame Matrix-inspired freeze and pan of Freddie’s two pilot friends.
Damn, that movie sucked.
@@SchardtCinematic Probably redesigned by committee.
"Protect the Behemoth at all costs..."
*Launches Col. Blair with two wingman.
Including Maniac !
Truly one of the best games in history, memorable to this day. Once the Wing Commander series ended, it was a huge loss. As excited as I was to see the movie in theaters, that Wing Commander movie was a disappointment, nothing like the games.
I remember WC3 was shot using a green screen and green controls. WC4, was shot using a real set. Malcolm McDowell talked about going to the super market and kids running up to him calling him "Admiral Tolwin".
When Electronic Arts got the series there was one more Wing Commander game, but it wasn't the same, nothing like WC3 and WC4. I think they killed it, they lost touch of the concept of the series being an interactive movie with movie music and all the trimmings. WC3 and WC4 did it right. Glad to see this on TH-cam.
Prophecy was alright. I think they just could not top WCIV so they did not even try and focused on better space action (in which they succeeded)
NF at some times I wanted a RTS wing commander
Prophecy was pretty good game play wise. It didn't match the interactive movie element of WC4. But it was hard to build up on something new using something as legendary as Wing Commander as your base.
Everything's EA touched wilted on the vine. Wing Commander was amazing. And they killed it. Ultima Online was amazing, then EA ruined it.
I honestly thought this would be the future of gaming. It was just so epic to okay this.
Far better than a movie, you were the movie
Well, video games have gotten more cinematic over time.
@@ThePreciseClimberYeah, but less good too as money talks instead.
Almost 25 years later and I can still identify the different Kilrathi fighters. Damn this was a good game!
Never got to play these games as a kid, only heard of them. Watching this in 2012 gives me chills regardless, loving the acting and the old-school CGI! Mark Hamill being a badass is always entertaining :D
The amounts of money I would give to go back in time - nostalgia is so powerful
If you find a way to go back to the early 90's ....please.....take me with you....!😂😂
"You can't trust someone who'll kill their own kind,"
Says the professional solider.
lol as well as the black chick who's racist against hobbes.
Thrashaero No joke. I kept expecting her to hang a sign on the drinking fountain, declaring "Pussys drink out of bowels."
HotaruZoku
Replying to a 3 month old comment I know but. BOWLS, please tell me you meant BOWLS, and not bowels... DX
xtremetuberVII
Either or.
ha who are you kidding we humans have been killing each other for eons
Fun trivia: Vaquero talks enthusiastically about his dreams about opening a cantina. In the opening of Predator 2, Julian Reyes is distraught over the destruction of his cantina😄Thanks for the upload btw. It’s great. One of my childhood favorites.
Thank You for saving this story, so even more people can enjoy it.
I just love this game. And part 4. So many good memories. Fantastic characters, story, score, ship design and exciting combat (/hits TAB for afterburners).
And now we have Squadron 42 just around the corner! (relatively speaking, probably next year)
these types of graphics were amazing back in the day, not because they were realistic, but because "oh wow, they are standing next to the snazzy graphics they actually can do that now" instead of worrying about if it was realistic or not.
This is actually better than the 1999 film. 🍿 🐿
Thumbs up from me 👍🏻
Ohhhhh Hell yeah the film writer i'm guessing had never even played a single Wing Commander game, was just awful
This was one of the best games and best I can remember playing. The plot was amazing, possibly the greatest cast ever put together for a game. I can only show my appreciation by commenting here.
th-cam.com/video/VppjX4to9s4/w-d-xo.html
Looks like Chris found a "better cast".
Its amazing how in the 90s the used real actors in video games like this but these days they animate them. Surely with technological advances they could do this more.
"Surely with technological advances they could do this more." WRONG ... it is BECAUSE OF technological advances that people have become addicted to fancy graphics and bigger explosions ... and acting is soooo '90s and seen as backwards.
"Modern technology" has become a religion (which is proven every time a new iPhone or something similar is released) and part of this religion is to absolutely diss anything from previous decades.
Oh and just look at people react VIOLENTLY to their games not running at 60 fps or 4k ultra graphics. As if we had to be tortured to play games like this in the past.
wing commander is the exception, not the rule, most FMV games were awful. there's a reason games are games and movies are movies.
I think it is more a case of money. Paying animators is a lot cheaper than paying actors. Also, when you make sequels, animations can be reused or modified, but actors will charge a lot to come back for a sequel.
In 1995 my dad was dying in a hospital. I did not have a computer yet. The book of this was in the gift shop. It took me through a bad time. Thanks
I remember I played this whole game as a kid. Saw Star Citizen and had no idea it was being developed by Chris Roberts!! What a come back!
Hamill motion captured for Star Citizen too. :) Can't wait.
Getting through this Quarantine with this. Going back and playing the games. Thanks!
I still have the original 5 CDs I bought in 1997. Might crank up DOSbox and do some reminiscing myself.
This was a pretty epic game and most of the actors performances were actually pretty good.
I heard Ginger Lynn was the only actor who was really interested in the technology of the shoot, and that she seemed to be by far the most enthusiastic member of the cast. It shows. Go Ginger!
Of course. She was a porn star and porn has always been the main driving force of certain technologies.
Great memories...WC was the game that got me hooked on PC gaming to begin with and forced many an upgrade. Thanks Chris Roberts!
I haven't seen this in 23 years, still remember so much of it.
40:05 "God I love that boy's spunk" - I know what it means but can't help but find it funny.
I smiled at it too, didn’t register with me back when I played the game but now as an older and dirtier-minded gents it played out differently.
It started with Eisen responded "I like that enthusiasm!" when Blair said "Ready to go, sir!" During one of the briefings and continuing through the tour of duty. Blair was always ready to go to work, whether things were going well or going to hell.
It always sucks when good actors have to drop absolutely crap lines.
They used that soundbyte on the PC version when you tested the sound card. First time I installed it and ran the test, I thought "What the hell is he on about?"
Spunk = moxie = gumption.
If ever I was to bump into Mark Hamill I would literally take him off guard and knock him sideways. "Yes, yes, its me lu.." - "Colonal Christopher Blair, Ace pilot for the confederation. Man, you were so good in that game, have you considered doing films?"
Wow despite the poor graphics this was an amazing 2 hrs of my life.
What is it with Mark Hamill and trench runs
***** only two to my knowledge. This one and the obvious Star Wars. One more and it's a theme!
Wouldn't suprise me if JJ would put him for another trench run in EP8, for old times sake.
@@phantomapprentice6749
Your comment has aged horribly
@@icegangsta4004 So badly, it hurts!
You see, it runs deep...
wow these cut scenes put together are still better than the actual wing commander movie
WC3 and Privateer..this is why I buy a pc years ago O: a flashback that makes me smile :D thanks to upload.
lol the guy playing cards in the bar, was in LOST. François Chau - Pierre Chang scientist of the Dharma Initiative orientation films
and Jules-Pierre Mao from the Expanse!
It really ticked me off that turned out to be the traitor.
That being said, even with the outdated graphics and cheesy backdrops, this is still a better Wing Commander Movie than the actual Wing Commander movie. Hell, the Kilrathi actually looked like Kilrathi in this.
Making him a traitor from the start was really cheap. He should have been genuinely on Confed's side right up until he discovered the plan to destroy , and that should have been what forced him turn to the other side. Much more dramatic and plausible.
he wasn't a traitor he was programmed that way he was never loyal to confed
Ralgha underwent and artificial personality overlay that led to another personality, entirely. This Ralgha would save a human child, defect to the Confederation, even fly against his own kind to end the decades of millions dying on both sides of the conflict. Thrakhath held him in high regard and trusted him with an assignment that would likely have never succeeded in placing a spy in a fortuitous time and place. Not sure if it was always planned from early in the series, but there were also Kilrathi and an entire world who did consciously rebel from the Empire, ironically, with the aid of Hobbes.
1:02:00 Blair: we are headed to kilrah
Tolwyn: what would you aim if you had the biggest gun in the universe?
Tarkin: Alderaan
This is better than that awful Wing Commander movie with Freddie Prinze Jr.
+Thor13332 lol it wasnt awful
GamleErik100 why not?
+Thor13332 NNOOOOOOOO the one with Jürgen Prochnow??? IT CANNOT BE BAD!!!
+Thor13332 It had that certain "So bad, it's good" charm to it. Great surround mix and one of the first movies I saw on DVD, and it was just so much better than VHS.
I'm not a fan of Wing Commander (or did I ever play the games) so I can't say if it was true to the games. But as a simple sci-fi action movie that was "Top Gun in space", I actually enjoyed it. It is a guilty pleasure and after recently watching it, it doesn't hold up, but it's still fun to watch.
God, thank you for posting this! It brings back so many memories. I actually went out and bought a new PC just so I could run this awesome game. The graphics were so cutting edge back then. All the WC series. Including Privateer. Thanks again!
Amg, Privateer! Yes! I forgot about that one. Thank you. 😊
This is amazing and brings back so many memories. Thank you for uploading!
Very well done! When the Wing Commander movie came out, I skipped it and watched these cut scenes instead. This was a Wing Commander movie worthy of the franchise. The theatrical movie wasn't nearly as good as the cut scenes from III and IV. The game videos had a better cast, better performances, and better stories.
Daniel Glaser Thank you, and yes you are spot on the Wing Commander Movie had nothing to do with the game franchise what so ever terrible terrible terrible. I mean why change a winning formula? made no sense to me.
I was waiting for "pretty slick flying, sir" after mission 1, but damn, I don't think I've ever seen that cut scene.
I know right. How does one get that cut scene?
1.) Biff Tanner getting OWNED by Luke Skywalker = Awesome.
2.) It was an emotional gut punch when Blair's best friend, Hobbs, was revealed to be a traitor, making the racist pilot, Cobra, right.
3.) Rachel > Flint
+Joe Young Hobbs isn't technically a traitor. His fake persona was truthfully loyal to Blair. No one had any way to know it was brainwashing and if and when it would wear off.
Still, it raises the intriguing question: we're Buckley's actions justified because her paranoia was proven right? I always felt that the Victory was a ship for undesirables, and Cobra was probably put there for being untenable in the first place...still, Hobbes' whole story arc was the first time I was introduced to the situational morality so common in warfare, and it tasted as horrible ot hear his "betrayal and honour" speech then as it did hearing it again for the first time in o'er a decade...
Either way, I'm so glad someone told be about WC back in '98 when I was playing Colony Wars and mentioned the mission system, still in my top 3 flight games/series.
OK enough of that Mass Effect!
This is better than that crappy movie Roberts put out in the theaters.
Great job of putting this video together. Awesome 😎. PS1 version which is in this video reigns supreme.
As a kid I legit thought the Behemot mission was the last of the game and was just extremely hard (and the dual with the bad guy would happen wether his world was destroyed or not) so I retried it again and again countless time until I gave up ... Rewatching my lair mate dying, and being abandoned by my fleet again and again left an indelible mark in my mind...
I beat this game like 3 times for the endings alone..though i prefered the hot chick pilot to the mechanic...but all the big name actors..none the least of which was none other than Mr Mark Hamill himself...graphics were top notch for the day and all the in ship dialogue options that really played a difference later on ....what more could a gamer ask for...ahhh they sure don't make em like they used to...what a pity...thanks for the upload...i've gotta get my daughter to watch this somehow since she was like 1 or 2 when i played it.....thats the only real problem i have with this (or am going to have} LOL.......
cool fact, that mechanic was actually a porn star back in the 90's and did some hardcore shit
biff Tannen. Luk Skywalker. Sallah! phenomenal!!!
This is incredible and way better than the movie, of course!! This was the best Wing Commander of all the series and was so cutting edge for the time. This franchise can be easily rebooted on the big screen, stick to the canon and will be so successful. I've read many of the Wing Commander novels and they were awesome! Wing Commander is the best video game franchise of all time.
Whoa...
I'm a younger very modern gamer: trapped between the battle of Halo vs Call of Duty, deeply disappointed with the conclusion of mass effect, and constantly upgrading whenever a new console/game is shat out with slightly better graphics. Yet... I was fucking mesmerized throughout this entire video. They don’t make em’ like that anymore.
Thank you for uploading this.
He is the uncle to the actor, who play Dr. Bashir on Star Trek DS9 :) McDowell is the maternal uncle of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actor Alexander Siddig.
Thanks for this - it brought back some great memories.
I was just waiting for Maniac say, "Butthead!"
Who you calling "butthead," butthead!
He's the best wingman I've ever had.. even if he doesn't really fit in a human cockpit and our controls are probably not designed for claws.
The scene at 4:36 makes an appearance in the Star Citizen 300 Series Commercial - Director's Cut! At about 1:57.
ksthebest Daymn.. So it does. I knew that looked familiar when I was watching the Commercial but I just couldn't put my finger on it. Kudos.
Looks like it was played on. P1 at 233. Ah I remember this game well. Good shit man
24:58 *** MAJOR CHILLS ***
SCRAMBLE/LAUNCH from WC & WC: II
Awesome!
This is better written and acted than about 90 percent of recent sci fi movies/shows in the last decade and it had a teeny tiny budget as well.
Actually it had the highest budget of any game in history when it was made. First million dollar game.
I'm so glad I got to play this game in its heyday. The ensemble cast, storyline, gameplay and atmosphere were all brilliant. Thanks for the great upload :-)
Spot on. I remember killing Prince Thrakath and shouting for joy.
This and Under a Killing Moon were the two games that took that "interactive movie" thing in a positive direction. Both released withing two months of each other, and both the first games to ship on 4CDs, too.
And now we have Tex Murphy 6 and Star Citizen coming out after all these years. Good time to be a gamer.
Star Citizen, SQ42 still not here..
Holy crap. I had no idea someone made a youtube video of this game... It was fun as hell back in the day.... yea yea im showing my age screw you.. lmao
that symphonic sweeping Mission music is just priceless. It repeats every each time and it's working everytime
Tony THANKS for all the action from the star wars movies it's awesome.!!!THANKS....
Dazzyvandam THANKS you for watching lol.
First game I bought with our first PC...
Those 5-10 minute mission loading times take me back
Ha Ha yeah those old floppy disks sure did like taking there sweet time lol.
WC3 was never floppy. WC3 was always hard (cause Ginger), and on a 4 CD set
Thank you for positing this. I really miss these types of games, but know it costs a lot of money to make.
Thanks so much for this, I never did finish the game
your welcome man thanxs for watching.
Haha, I didn't even need to check to know you were referring to, "God, I love that boy's spunk." :)
I cannot stress how much I loved this game... It was the shiiiiit
Dude my favorite character has to be the Spanish dude with the guitar. His family were luthiers. Such a cool story for such a small character.
1:41:09 Gotta admit it is weird seeing Rachel and Blair go at it so much and then not acknowledge each other at all in WC-prophecy....and see her go after a much younger pilot
Man, actors from Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTR and BTTF all in one.....with Tim Curry thrown in. Talk about a Sci-Fi / Fantasy nerd's dream game!
Tom Wilson, Mark Hamill and Malcolm McDowell reprise their roles in Wing Commander Academy too. it only ran for a season but it was pretty good. on the same level as Exosquad or Xmen
holy shit.. childhood memories flowing like a river. Also, I like how there are so many notable actors in such an old game. Bet it had a super small budget too.
It cost 3-4 million, at the time making it the most expensive game ever created. It's rumored that Mark Hamil got significant gross points of game sales, learning his lesson from Star Wars, and that the earnings from Wing Commander, not Star Wars were his big payday.
This game was legend and still a legend..I play computer games for more than 20 years and this is the only game i have played and finished more than 5 times..I really want to see a reboot with the latest VR or a continuation of the story...i still have a score to settle with those bugs..
i like that idea
i cant wait to play squadron 42
New SQ42 trailer looks groundbreaking
Still waiting
@@philchao Yeah, and that lawsuit is gone. Crytek didn't have a leg to stand on. Kinda pathetic really.
Still waiting
the tune at the start is from an old wrestler from wwf circa 98-99 taka michinoku anyone remember that lol any-hows great upload
wow Mark Hamill in this looks rough with facial hair, has the growl in his voice of a battle hardened vet and is much more sure of himself, definitely acts like a soldier i like it
Cool
The mix of live-action & video game... I wonder if it came out at the same time as Starfleet Academy.
Rest in Peace, Jason Bernard. This game came out the year of his death.
He also did WC IV and in the 80s the original V.
Hahaha
"Consider them nailed" Hamill walks away
"God I love that boys spunk"
I absolutely went catatonic lmao
Ginger Lynn in a wing commander game, now that's hot!!
This game was the most fun I ever had playing a game LOL. I had forgotten how cool it was. I played WC 1,2 and 3.
Thx for the video. I had forgotten how much I loved this game. I played all the WC games and III was always my favorite. It wasn't quite as flashy as IV or Prophecy, but it had a certain something that the others just didn't quite capture I think. I still mourn the day that WC was put into mothballs. Wish they would bring it back again. Heck, I wish they'd bring back Privateer too! lol
I really think that it`s better than average modern sci-fi movie.
This sure beats the hell out of the OTHER so-called Wing Commander movie I've seen...
that opening with origin sign brings back memories. i think i am getting old :)
Only a Kilrathi deals in absolutes.
500 MILLION GIGAWATTS. Great Scot!
I’ve never seen flying that bad before. I’ve never seen the captain say that before. My 14 year old self was a beast on this game. Wish I had footage of it.
Thanks for posting this!
still more interactivity and player agency than _Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves_
Luke Skywalker, Sallah/Gimli, Alex Delarge and Biff Tannen all together in the greatest movie never made.
most amazing game series I have ever played, thanks for this upload !
I remember playing the Wing Commander games a loooong time ago in a galaxy far far .......... In my room and loving them :). They should make another Wing Commander game ! Going to download them on Origin i think
Ah I remember them days when minorities showed up in ci fi it wasen't turned into some insane political thing.....
Your life must be so hard now. Poor little guy
True!
@@judeconstantine2767 Childish terms like "soyness" are born just becasue of people who are politcally obsessed. Lets outgrow that immature language and tribal behavior as a whole, how about that? ;-)
No credible person uses those internet troll words anyway.
@@TheDecentDescent Are you expecting to be taken seriously with your childish babble, my friend? =)
Oh yes, now you showed me! 😂
I love you too, kid.
@@TheDecentDescent thanks child
John Rhys-Davies has been in so many things
Travis Horton
Not the cockpit, I’d wager...not unless the cockpits come with lubricant to grease the sides so he could squeeze in.
GOD, I LOVE THAT BOY'S SPUNK!
+PetersonZF lmao
+PetersonZF looooooooool
uh oh pussy cat gona die? chalk up another for the Maniac!!
+PetersonZF This is the greatest line in the cut-scenes. The way it was delivered made me spit my water out of my nose. "You'll need to nail -- every last one of them." "Consider them nailed, sir." "God, I love that boy's spunk!"
Did you know that when you setup the sound card (in dos menu), they play this as a test sound? They were in on the joke for sure!
At 1:13, it's more fun if you tell Rachel you don't want company. You keep drinking and have to fly the next mission drunk with all the controls moving at random.
Good old days of gaming...and the only one that Mark Hamill was willing to come back for as an actor after years of being in many little-known films that could never measure up to his once success as Luke Skywalker of Star Wars
When I first played this game back in the day with my 486 dx2 with 8 meg of ram, it would take 20 min to load to play each mission. What a system hog.
I had a vodoo 2 video card, it was 4-5 minutes I think
There was something seriously wrong with your system then.
Who else is watching this in 2017 because THE LAST JEDI giving you nostalgia for luke?
I hope Luke doesn't die. But stupid coworkers are betting on it.
Correction is it called Star Citizen. I did donate, they did raise over 6 million recently.
Perfect for a lazy Sunday afternoon. Thanks. Now for no. 4.