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Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom (PS1) Story & Gameplay (Part 1)
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This is just Part 1 of a Story/Gameplay video of Wing Commander IV The Price of Freedom On the PS1.
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 footage is mostly Story, with a little of the flight gameplay at the end. You'll see a number of recognizable actors in this game (including John Rhys-Davies who voiced Gimli in The LOTR movies, and has been in a number of games over the years).
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
www.wcnews.com/news/update/6885
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 footage is mostly Story, with a little of the flight gameplay at the end. You'll see a number of recognizable actors in this game (including John Rhys-Davies who voiced Gimli in The LOTR movies, and has been in a number of games over the years).
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
www.wcnews.com/news/update/6885