![]() ![]() ![]() This game runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux. If you’ve never played Wing Commander, you’ve come to the right place. If you have played Wing Commander and think, “I remember those two old games with their bad graphics today. Yawn,” then you’re more ignorant than the person who has never played the game. There is a shocking amount of value here. The storyline works best when you play it all in order. If you don’t have a joystick, don’t bother. You CAN play with a mouse and even keyboard only. The joystick will be able to do nearly everything. I only use the keyboard for communications. However, people say Wing Commander 1 doesn’t perform well for them. Wing Commander 2 crashed on me several times in the middle of a mission. Sometimes, the interface for saving and loading games is strangely ‘sticky’ or sluggish. The biggest annoyance is that using the mouse buttons between missions sometimes locks (?) the right mouse button down, and you won’t realize it until the cutscene zooms past you since the computer thinks you want to skip it all. The solution to this is to not use the mouse during the Wing Commander 2 cutscenes. Wing Commander is a first person space simulator. Imagine being an expert pilot at dogfighting during World War 2 where you are on a cruiser doing missions to win a war. Of course, it is not World War 2 but in space. Each mission, you go out in your fighter plane, perform the mission, and return to do another mission. Missions vary in the tasks needed to perform. Normally, you direct your ship to hit certain nav points (areas in space) and then return back to the home cruiser (Tiger’s Claw). Enemy ships are either at the nav points or halfway in between. Other obstacles like asteroid fields and mine fields abound. Some have you destroy a target like a capital ship. You are the mission leader every single time. You instruct the wingman to attack the enemy, to attack the target, to return to base, and to generally help you out. The wingmates vary in skill and personality. One of them, Maniac, refuses to listen to anything you say and just afterburns at the enemy to attack. You interact with the crew in between missions. In between missions, you can talk to pilots or the bartender. They have gameplay tips and liven up the universe. Mostly, they serve as a nice breather to the heart racing missions.ĭepending on your performance, you will get promotions and awards. Prior to achievements, your video game character would climb the social pecking order inside the game. The missions branch and have no clear game over. In most games, when you lose it is game over. Of course, if you blow up and die, it becomes game over as well. But what if you eject? The game continues on. What if you didn’t succeed in your mission? The game continues on. However, there is a price to pay if you do not succeed in your mission. The war with the Kilirathi will get worse. Your missions will branch onto the ‘losing path’. You’ll be given plenty of opportunities to turn it around and get back to the ‘winning path’. When you start a game, you’ll be in the simulator and witness your explosion. There is nothing you can do to avoid destruction. The simulator asks for your NAME and for your CALLSIGN. ![]() ![]() #WING COMMANDER PRIVATEER DOSBOX JOYSTICK CONFIGURATION SIMULATOR#.Explore a vast universe with countless bases and planets spread out across dozens of systems.As long as you keep a couple of steps ahead of your enemies and a couple of bucks in the black, you’re a free agent Choose the life of a pirate, merchant, or mercenary.Customize your ship according to your needs and budget, modifying weapons, armor, and other systems.Includes the Wing Commander Privateer: Righteous Fire expansion.Mostly money.Īre you determined enough to forge your own destiny? At the end of the day, it’s all about money and survival. Or just do whatever suits you at the time. It isn't much, but the universe is there for you to explore in search for profitable opportunities.īecome a patient, law-abiding merchant, a smuggler far away from the normal space lanes, a pirate preying on the weak, or a professional mercenary hunting down criminal scum. You start with a rusted scout ship and a handful of credits in your pocket. In this open-ended game you can choose from many paths. The fringes are populated by a volatile mix of pirates, miners, mercs, cutthroats, and Kilrathi, all struggling to make a life for themselves. In the far reaches of space, you live by no man’s rules but your own. Privateer takes you to the seamy side of the Wing Commander universe. The Terran frontier between the Kilrathi Empire and the unknown. ![]()
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