What’s amazing about the game is that every ship feels unique and has different weapons and loadouts. You start out in a relatively week ship, piloting simple patrol and escort mission, but you will eventually progress to a higher rank and a better, more powerful ships. Winning or losing in too many mission and you will get a different cut scene during the game and of course a different ending, but the game will offer several chances to get on the “winning” path. The campaign in Wing Commander has two paths a “winning” and a “losing” path. The player character has no name, but internally in Origin, he was nicknamed “BlueHair”, because his hair although black, had highlights of blue (due to a limited color palette), which was what probably the reason they named him Blair in the later games.
When you start a game you have just finished a training sim session, and you must enter your name and callsign.
In Chris Roberts words the game is inspired by WW2, especially the Pacific War. The game is set in 2654 and follows the Terran Confederation and the ongoing war against a predatory feline race called the Kilrathi (they were inspired by Kzinti of Larry Niven’s “Know Space” series). Wing Commander had a different take on the then established space sim formula, bringing the game and space combat to the levels of Hollywood blockbusters. Developed by Origin Systems, Wing Commander can be considered one of the best and influential space sim ever created. When talking about space sims, sooner or later someone will mention Wing Commander.
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