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Wing Commander 3 is the Latest Free Game on Origin
Post by Dan @ 08:57am 06/08/14 | 6 Comments
EA Continues it's generous On the House promotion today, offering up the classic 1994 space action game Wing Commander 3 as the latest free title, available for a limited time to anyone with an Origin account to permanently add to their library.

Head over to Origin.com and hit "Get It Now" for the goods.


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Raven
Posted 09:23am 06/8/14
If ever I won the lottery, I expect one of the things I'd want to spend that money on is the IP rights to the Wing Commander series.
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trog
Posted 11:00am 06/8/14
For those who came in late, this has Mark Hamill in it. It was a spectacular game at the time, costing millions of dollars because it had heaps of motion video and SFX with some big name actors (including Hamill). IIRC it came on 4 CDs, which was just ridiculously huge.

I cannot remember if the game was great - rose tinted glasses and my love for the Wing Commander series bias me. But I signed in to lock it down anyway so I can revisit one rainy weekend.
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Raven
Posted 12:22pm 06/8/14
The problems with WC3 were the difficulty and load times. It was not unusual for you to have to wait 2-3 minutes sitting in the c***pit of the launch sequence while data was loaded from a 2X CD-ROM drive. Oh yeah, and it was 4 discs.

The difficulty wasn't insane, like some of the WC1/WC2 missions (Saving that fscking Exeter from the Ralari, anyone, same deal with that stupid bloody Drayman?), but failing any number of missions could/would put you on a losing path which you may not know you're on, and you couldn't always recover from.

The WC3 budget was $4m - obscene at the time. Then it increased to $12m for Wing Commander IV.
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Dazhel
Posted 10:08pm 06/8/14
big name actors (including Hamill)


Lots of big names:
Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange, Star Trek Generations)
John Rhys Davies (Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones series)
Thomas F Wilson (Back to the Future, Freaks and Geeks)
Ginger Lynn (I Wanna Cum Inside Your Mom #23 & Sex Starved MILFs #2)
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Audi
Posted 09:31pm 06/8/14
http://youtu.be/hauqxsk_NJk

BEST REVIEW EVER.
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Raven
Posted 07:54am 07/8/14
But if I play this again I'll have make a decision again: Flint or Rachael?!


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