Wing Commander 4: Intro Cinematics - Part 1

[Cherubjean]

The very best game in all times!!! Still I am a big fan!

[Paynekillah]

Just read an article where Chris Roberts said he's definitely into the idea of re-visiting this series he created. He's ready to get back into game making. Imagine what could be done with today's technology and gaming horsepower!! I loved these games. There's been a loooooong dry spell on space sims. :^(

[PraetorianPhalanx]

We want a new wing commander game ! :D

As a kid i loved the series, epic game series at the time.

[mariusjacobs83]

I haven't seen this intro in like 5 years...and I actually remembered the dialogue word for word...even the SB-71 part...lulz

[ronnieboy3]

I love this game. Epic story. Better than anything the Hollywood is coming out with these days.

[thedoctor42209]

for those looking for the game there is a vendor off ebay-who is now selling a version of WC 4 that will work with windows 7, got a copy-just keep in mind since the graphics are out of date from the mid 90's it works but the video at times can be chopy

[AnalogRocks]

I use to play this on my Pentium 200MMX with 64 megs of ram, Soundblaster Awe 32, Canopus 6meg Pure 3D card and Gravis Phoenix joystick.

Good times!

[tytzer93]

This game brings back memories.

[yankee1653]

Such a f*cking epic game!

[yankee1653]

Man I miss this series so much. Was a big part of my child hood.

[26DeislerFCB]

i want this on steam, or gog

[jedwardc1982]

Man, this really takes me back.  GREAT series!

[Fbueller129]

I always thought Wing Commander would make a good 4X strategy game like the Master of Orion series or Imperium Galactica 2.

[Hotshotter3000]

@Fbueller129 Play wing commander armada, it has some of those characteristics.

[commkeen]

@LeFonque81 Same here, I always got shivers watching the part with the Flash-Pak...

[silvergreydragon]

I remember this as the first awesome game I played, and also the first game to make me play 8 hours in a row! XD I was so immersed in the game that I played through the entire campaign (all 6 CD's :X) in one go, and totally forgot to eat my dinner :P

[TERACEPHIL]

ob ihr es glaubt oder nicht aber ich habe mir extra ne playstation geholt und teil 3 und 4 bei ebay geholt !!!!

wing commander 4ever !!!!!!

please make a remake for 360 with mark !!!!

[FugityFudd]

I've seen pizzas with less cheese! Damn I hated the 90's FMV craze; it ruined a bunch of great franchises.

[Drowfan]

Can you help me? I have the original DOS version of this game but I cannot install it even with DosBox. It says that there is not enough free space on my winchester but there is plenty! This is the same problem with Wing Commander 3 but fortunately I can play the game without Dosbox. What should I do?

[DaveCaspermeyer]

@Drowfan Installing thru DOSBox may require installing to the C drive. One avenue for help if you've tried multiple hard drive locations is the WCNews site

[Drowfan]

@DaveCaspermeyer I know that site and followed their instructions but could not succeed. :( How did you install your game? Or do you have the DVD version?

[DaveCaspermeyer]

@Drowfan I had some thoughts about the issue, and if I'm not mistaken you need to install the patch that let's you run the game from Windows. One way to achieve this is to copy the content of the CD to a directory. After successfully applying the patch, you should be able to install the game.

[Drowfan]

@DaveCaspermeyer It worked with the patch! Thank you so much! :)

[richkawaiipikachu]

@Drowfan Google up wcnews.

Then to the right these a section called resources in that section click on (files).

The page comes up next click on wing commander IV link to quickly take you to that part of th page then download the (win95 upgrade patch.)

Install the game normally then after that copy the contents of teh ZIP archive into the games install folder.

Then run the game via the WC4W.exe file & it should run fine as it did to me.

[CiPhEr505]

Starring Luke Skywalker

[TheKingofnoob]

Oh, man. This is....um...what was that thing...hmmmm...

Oh yeah!

EPIC WIN.

[thedoctor42209]

would be cool sadly chris roberts and I think EA had a huge falling out.

[danieldeath4]

What would be epic is if they remaster all of these.

[11DNA11]

hell yes! All from WC1 (secret missions included) to WCP :)

[danieldeath4]

I remember dusting Kilrathi when I was younger. Now the flyings gotten alot easier. Too bad I still have problems with the carriers >.>.

[Buccura]

Man how I did then and still do love that guy's cheesy evil laugh.

[schieese]

great game. could be realease for Sega CD.

[TMproducto]

greatest game ever!

[fraser931]

I have to agree TMproducto!

[SidNightWalker]

Tom Wilson as Maniac...one of the multitude of great things about this.

[alien5ive]

good old times. this is a great SAGA. playd them all. 1st and 2nd part was on DOS only. times were no windows shit exist.

great

[rican4you]

how do you play this? looks like an old movie to me

[dealmaker007]

It's a fighter sim with cutsceenes and opportunities to choose your path. It's a great game.

[thedoctor42209]

its a pity the chris roberts and I think EA had a falling out, Would have loved to see a wing commander 6

[joe4ska]

I never understood why they crumpled aluminum foil at 3:15

[TheKirkoswald]

OMG I remember this game , im 23 and i played this when i was 12 years old , thanks for the vidoes , im having flashbacks !! Awesome game

[RaytheonAl]

As much as I loved the earlier Wing Commander games, these later movie/games really ruined the franchise, along with space sims in general. I would love to see a sequel, or perhaps remake, with modern technology, but this whole series became such a joke, between the cheesy D-movie actors and the god-awful movie adaption. Thanks a lot Chris Roberts!

[Scike]

I love how this one starts. It reminds me of one of those old movie sci-fi movie serials like Flash Gordon, albeit much cooler.

[OGDrecksau]

Why there are no more military starfighter sims? Only egoshooters and real time strategy...

[ockerz]

did anyone else try that mine thing he does as soon as u could when u first played it lol!

[batlad]

Can't do it in this game. First, the WC3/4 engine can't render the blast wave ring effect. Second, because the engine doesn't render momentum effects well enough to surf the wave, even if it did. You can certainly launch a mine and hit the boosters, but the result is disappointing.

The vision engine used in Prophecy can do the effect, but I don't recall any launchable mines in that game.

[wondermega4ever]

so many memories....I boughtr my 3do to play the 3rd one. Few really know that Blair and Skylwalker are the same actor.

[Glimworm1]

I get goosebumps every time i watch this introduction

[thedoctor42209]

thanks, this is one of those games that I used to play alot-thanks for the good memories.

[yuvraj01]

So HOW exactly do you get this game to run on XP, with cd quality sound, and is it ok to play via keyboard, or do you have to get a controller?

[thedoctor42209]

its been a while but didnt xp have a dos mode.

[batlad]

Option 1: Dosbox on a fast machine.

Option 2: Install the Windows (officially a windows95 patch) patch to get it working with directX. Then right click on the shortcut and select compatibility mode for Windows95. The windows exe checks for win95 and won't run if it thinks it's running on NT (XP= NT 5.1)

Yes, you can play with mouse and a keyboard, but it's not as enjoyable.

[LeFonque81]

I remember watching the opening video over and over again because I liked it so much when I was a kid...

[rhynerisdead]

@LeFonque81

me too!!

[TERACEPHIL]

@LeFonque81 SOOOO TRUE !!!!

[BakaDaruku]

this is the best game i have ever played in my life. ever.

[terminator847]

@BakaDaruku do you really mean that? Or you are just writing the same thing you write on every youtube video of a game you used to play and like? Same as someone who liked a movie, sees any scene from it on youtube and comments "That was the best scene in the movie!" on every single scene of that movie.

[BakaDaruku]

@terminator847 oh, I Mean it.

I love many games... and many can fall into the best "genre" but really I have never played anything that has stirred me like this one. I would go so far as to say it even went on to help define the man I am today.

as for the best scene in any movie.. there is only one. There can only be one.

1997 Starship Troopers. The Klendathu Drop Sequence.

[Stigmatainmypants]

@BakaDaruku I lump WCIII and IV in as one, tremendous game. And i agree, the best i have ever played.

[chja00]

@BakaDaruku Yeah. While there have been games with better gameplay, this has the best story and setting out of any game ever. Darn, it's better than most movies and tv-series i've seen.

[MarcusTrinnias]

This is the only Wing Commander game I've never actually beaten. I was too young to really get into it. I was more keen on replaying WC 1, 2, and 3. I do regret having never played this one through and through before though.

[nosuchthingasgod]

i actually really liked the plot of this game, and yes, I agree this is one of the best computer games ever. What DO you do with a giant economic war machine when there's no more enemy? Makes you think.

[WBranstett]

I was disappointed that Seether was all talk. Not only did he have to out class his opponent technologically, he also had to sneak up on them. On an even playing field, he was a poor pilot and easy to beat.

[Burninator353]

WC 3 was the best. 4 was ok. Not fighting the Kilrathi kind of took the fun out of it. But I SO wish the Dragon fighter was in WC 3.

[13lackWulf]

Best computer game forever, in my opinion. A shame that f**** EA ruined Origin!

[jweinrub]

Wing Commander III and IV were my favorite games to play along with the Crusader games that Origin did as well.

[ARP7777777]

How could ANYONE love a cloned lunatic who laughs at killing innocent people? Thrakhath at least had the excuse of being a damn Kilrathi and a imperialist.

[jfunf]

t5hat pilot redeemed himself in Babylon 5.

[Madowstone]

They don´t make this kind of computergames anymore. Sure its expensive. But since WC4 the sales bers per titels has been increased by more then 10 times. No Flightsim or Spacesim with story and animation since at least 5 years.

[gucker07]

Top games today are actually a lot more expensive to develop. GTA4 cost 100 million to develop, look it up.

[MysticUnidonkey]

100 million??? Wow

[gucker07]

Yes, I was surprised myself when I read that but it's true.

[MysticUnidonkey]

Wow, well, they did have to do all the textures and high def. That's crazy though. Games are costing as much as movie productions! But, then again, they are like movies :)

[gucker07]

Top sellers like GTA4 also make more money than the biggest box office hit, so it makes sense to invest this much for the development.

[MysticUnidonkey]

Also true--especially with the newer system and better details and graphics, you're right. I have yet to play it still, ticks me off-- Anyhoo, good series

[yuvraj01]

12 MILLION DOLLARS, unheard of at the time when producing a game...

[PRECISION357]

I can remember when I played this definately one of the best intro movies for a game ever , the best intro out of all the wing commander games anyway, but overall I think wing commander 3 was the best of the series.

[yuvraj01]

How DO YOU get the game to run on WIndows XP, not sure what I need to add...Also without the interlacing and the right audio quality in flight? Not Midi...

[Cornughon]

The Win95 version of WCIV actually runs fine on XP. The interlacing was a command line option I thought, and the music was streaming audio, no midi at all.

[FirehawkeR]

Just a heads-up, you can turn off the interlacing for a better picture.

Add -no_interlace and -true_color parameters to the shortcut if using the windows version.

[dkast5]

You should put these into a playlist! :)

[vampire96blood]

One of my games... One of the best overall space simulation in my opinion

(good old days in my gaming years...)

[Aera1982]

Lox12 100% sign. WC4 is one of the greatest games in video game history! Unfortunately I've got the german version. The german synchro is ridiculous, particularly in this intro.

[lox12]

You have to love Seether's maniacal laughter xD

[tim1polman]

this is the favorite wing commander game of mine..  loved the plot of this one. (probably because I was too young when i played 3,.. but oh well :) )

[Stratis42]

Chalk up another for the Maniac.

[Stigmatainmypants]

Watch and Learn, Colonel...

[SidNightWalker]

They did indeed create worlds, too....man, memories.

[Dyslexicon]

Oh man, I forgot about the bizarro interlacing in this. I freaking loved this game. One month, not too long after it came out, I played through and beat it every Sunday. Good times.

[Colombianyoyo]

Yay! Wing Commander 4! You rock man!

ALL HAIL DAVE, ALL HAIL DAVE!!!! :)