Wing Commander Academy Gameplay part 2 of 2

Sorry for the end of thie last video. The buttons didn't respond.
And as you can see, I don't play that game very often.

The following descriptios is taken from http://www.squakenet.com/computer_games/824/Wing-Commander-Academy/download.html


Wing Commader Academy is a fun but overlooked 3D space shooter based on the Wing Commander 2 engine, released by Origin to appease fans who were anxiously awaiting the release of Privateer and Wing Commander 3. To prevent fans from crying "foul!" at this straight rip-off of the "simulator" practice mode in the original games, Origin added some new features. First off, there are two new ships, the Wraith and the Jrathek, for the Terran and Kilrathi sides respectively. The Wraith is a small but very fast fighter with two new weapons: a Reaper cannon and the Leach missile. The Leach missile adds a whole new dimension to dogfighting in space, as it drains all power from weapons and shields of any ship, including capital ships. There are also some new spacial effects, such as a burning sun and spinning planets. Game play consists of two simple phases: Constructing missions, and then playing them. Missions can have up to four nav points each with its own set of enemies and objects such as enemy ships, terran ship, space stations, asteroids, ejected pilots and data pods. You can save up to twenty-four different missions which you can trade with friends or you can take on the pre-built ...(more) simulation, the gauntlet, which consists of fifteen levels made up of three waves each in increasing difficulty. The higher levels are a true test for any Wing Commander veteran. Overall, Wing Commander Academy achieves its purpose of whetting the player's appetite for future games in the series. And the action is for the most part so engrossing that you won't even notice the lack of plot in this game :)

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Too bad that the Kilrathi Saga didn't include this game. Too bad that it didn't get the same Win95 upgrades like WC2: Vengeance of the Kilrathi, don't you think?

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[AstralDragoon]

This is one of the earliest video games I ever played. I've seen it available as a legal download re-tooled for modern systems; where did you get your copy?

[FekLeyrTarg]

I don't recall exactly but there are download links in the link in the description.

And you have to use it with DOSBox.

Well, have fun playing it.

btw: Congratulations for your first comment on this video. ;-)

[MrC921]

LOL, I have always loved those Kilrathi death screams.  They're hilarious!

[bremer1701]

:d i have the original floppy version here :D

[bad74maverick]

wing commander 4 was my favorite though this one was fun too

[AstralDragoon]

Thanks. I've been watching a gameplay video series for Wing Commander 2, and it's strange getting a sense of the history behind these characters. Since this was basically the only game in the series I knew anything about, I had no idea that, for example, Hobbes was a Kilrathi colonel (I guess his crying out "Sivar!" when you shoot at him should have given it away), and I could never figure out why the Jrathek was available to Confed pilots.

I MUST play this game again...