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The ship reference does not exist, and the weapon reference is scattered among the background booklet pages. I found it much more satisfying to watch the intro instead. There is a background booklet which is essentially the WC4В intro in a novelette form. On a 16 meg machine you should not need to wait more than 1 minute for a mission to start, often far less. There are some in-flight movies and they now flip faster between space flight and movie, which is great. As advertised, most of the big names returned in this game: Mark Hamill John Rhys-Davis, Malcolm MacDowell, etc. The acting in WC4В is good, as good as WC3В if not better. WC4В has some of the best writing I've seen in a game, and one of the plot twists in the middle will shock you. It involves betrayal, loyalty, decisions about life and death. In which you must make several choices which may leave marks on your soul. Who are behind the attacks? Confeds reactivate Colonel Blair, which is you the player, to find out, and there starts your adventure. The plot is interesting enough: unknown fighters are destroying civilian ships of both the Confederation and Union of Border Worlds. The new 'global map' has been added so you can jump to the next available 'conversation' instead of wandering about the ship looking for the next plot point. You will see more panning and zooming which makes the whole thing fell more like a movie. As the sets are now real physical sets instead of computer generated 'virtual sets', better camera work really shows. Between FlightsД«etween flights you wander about the ship you are on and interact with various characters onboard. There are more ground missions now, and texture-mapped ground shows a much more realistic terrain than WC3 's ground missions, though if speed is a concern you can have WC3 's ground style back (detail level medium). Missile launches are now accompanied by missile trails for easier tracking and evasion, and the ships and fighters themselves look as good as ever. The flight engine is based on SVGA (640x480x256), with optional VGA (320x200x256) mode. The power allocation are still adjustable as in WC3, and this becomes more important now with different types of weapons available. In some missions you will need to send a separate team toward a different objective, and your choices will affect that mission's success. Instead of picking wingmen just by whim, you can now look at their combat ratings and decide to take (or send) on missions. There are also alternative guns that are may be available in the crafts you fly, which introduces even more variables. You will also have a chance to pick from multiple missions, not just from plot choice.ДЇor the ones who must have different toys, several new weapons (and old weapons, for those who played earlier WC installments) are in WC4В and their use will affect your tactics. In other missions you fight in a nebula, which means visibility range is way down and you fly partially blind. In some missions you must fight without using the radar, which is essential to locate your enemies. There are also capture and infiltrate missions in which you are detailed to disable and capture enemy ships/fighters, and send infiltration teams into enemy ships. You have recon (fly through and take some pictures) and salvage missions (pick up something with tractor beam) now. Only this time, there are other types of missions than just killing enemies. All the mission elements are back: you are the hero flying against overwhelming odds.

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Those of you who have played earlier installments in the Wing Commander series needs no introductions.

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The series progressed from bitmap overlaid polygons to surface-mapped full 3D objects, from VGA to SVGA, from talking head animations to live actors, the series just gets better and better.

#WING COMMANDER 4 SIMULATOR#

Wing Commander series is a space combat simulator series similar to X-WingВ and TIE FighterВ (from LucasArts) of in-cockpit first-person space flight, but mixes some interaction between the 'player character' and other characters in the game between the missions.

Was the money well spent? A definite yes in this gamer's logs.

Wing Commander 4, the latest installment in the Wing Commander saga reportedly cost over US$10 million dollars to produce. Read Full Review Is WC4 worth $10 million?

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