DSOGaming writes: "I’m really excited about this. Do you remember Wing Commander? Yeah, that lovely DOS space combat game by the brilliant minds of Origin Systems? Well, an indie team decided to create a new game that takes place at the same time as WC3 and concludes with the end of the decades long Terran-Kilrathi War. Wing Commander Saga has been in development for a long time and we are happy to report that the team has hit a big milestone. The game is almost finished, the team is polishing some parts of it and it will be released for free in the following months."
Aaron from Leviathyn.com has concerns about the new crowdfunding attempt by space-sim auteur Chris Roberts. But he's rather excited, too.
CalmDownTom says, "At this point the game contains two campaigns. The first of these is the original “Prologue” campaign, but a great deal of additions and changes have been made. The story has been expanded, more characters have been added and a number of other little tweaks have been made. Most of these changes make the game better or represent clever little twists on the formula to modernise it without changing the core game content. "
Could the fan-made ‘Wing Commander’ sequel, the Kickstarter-backed ‘Starlight Inception’ and the mobile ‘Rogue Star’ lead the way for the return of space sims?
I want space games back, but more Aubird Force, Mater of Orion or Infinite Space on the PS3/360.
We need more game variety period. As much as I love halo bf killzone arma and resorchestra there are too many shooters.
Interestingly timed article for me personally. I'm currently playing Freelancer and was just thinking the other night how awesome it would be to have something similar with so many options of play (be a trader, miner, fighter pilot) and then realized that we do. X 1-3, Freespace, EVE. Has anyone seen the Cyborg flight stick, thing makes me want to build a cockpit. Which brings me to a quick point. I was very surprised that people don't really build cockpit setups for space sims, only flight sims. I thought there would be a bunch of hardcore EVE players with setups, but can't find any when I googled.
Cheers.
I wonder if they are keeping the original cutscenes? WC3 remains my favorite with all of it's betrayal.
no.. you're not supposed to dignify the movie by referencing it directly.