All in all, it took 2 hours at least to reach the end of this rather simple recon mission with maybe 2 dogfights in it against the Kilrathi, the main enemy in the series (basically cats with beards). Orders came through from my somewhat arrogant, condescending wingman, and we were to fly to the first navpoint (navigation point), which took about half an hour. It’s too jerky and unresponsive (this can be rectified by downloading and installing the patch, which at least allows mouse control, but the best way is to get a joystick, I would imagine).Īnyway, I digress. And playing this game with the keyboard, it must be said, isn’t much fun.
I had to figure out most of the controls just by fiddling around on the keyboard.
I was instantly transported in to a carrier-a rather large spaceship. Forgive me if this turns in to more of rant than a review from this point onwards. Overall, it boasts a full length campaign, The Darkest Dawn, with 55 missions, all varied in theme, plus a prologue campaign that acts as one big tutorial to get you to grips with all the controls voice acting (even some professionals lent their talents for a total of 10 hours worth of dialogue), pre-rendered cutscenes, and other impressive features.īut after starting a new campaign, one starts to see a few (black) holes in the product. I’ve seen less impressive presentation from most commercial games-even recent ones. Right from the intro to the interactive main menu and more, this game screams high production values.
Seeing as Wing Commander is such a cult classic, this game is obviously highly regarded by fans of the series, with a score of 9.7 on (at the time of writing this).Īnd upon firing it up it isn’t too hard to see why. As I mentioned above, Wing Commander Saga is a freeware title that had been, up until 2012, in development for several years-development started after the source code for Freespace 2 was released, in fact.
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