Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom (PS1) Story & Gameplay (Part 3)

This is just Part 3 of a Story/Gameplay video of Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom On the PS1.

This vid finally gets to the gameplay elements. Near the end of the mission, for some reason, one of the objectives didn't show up. I ended up messing up part of the mission, but it wasn't mission over. I just couldn't remember what I was supposed to do after following the enemy at the end.

There is some story after the gameplay footage in this vid. This will probably be the last vid I upload of this game. I'm not planning on doing a playthrough.


I just got this game for $5 at my local Play N Trade. I rented it back in the PS1 days, and have wanted it ever since.

This was my introduction to the popular Wing Commander series. The game starring Mark Hamill, is essentially an interactive movie/Space Combat game. A lot of the early uses of Full Motion Video were big experiments that really didn't have much to their gameplay. Most of them played like Dragon's Lair. This game was a great example of how to integrate FMV into the gameplay to not only tell a story (of which the character has some control over the plot turns), but to integrate FMV into the gameplay. This series has a big cult following (mostly amongst PC games), and for it's time Wing Commander IV was the most expensive game ever made with an estimated 12 million dollar budget which was huge for it's time.

This game integrates plot into the gameplay the right way IMO. I always say Gameplay is way more important than story, but when they integrate gameplay elements into the story, it makes the story part of the gameplay. It doesn't go as in-depth as it could be, but it's definitely better than just simply watching a cutscene.

Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom is now available on the US PlayStation Store.

Here's an interesting read about the game:

http://www.wcnews.com/news/update/6885

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@tomwolfpack

No problem, I hope you got it working now! Life would be dull without Wing Commander.

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@tomwolfpack

Not sure what you're doing wrong, the games run flawlessly in the latest version of dosbox. What version of Windows you're using is irrelevant. Have you tried asking for help on wcnews-dot-com? The Playstation versions of WC3 and especially WC4 are pretty poor compared to the PC.

[theelusiveone]

Excellent review...I'm playing this on the PC right now.