Wing Commander: The Kilrathi Saga is a collection of the first three chapters of the Wing Commander franchise. While the site only allows you to download the first two parts of the game, these two are the ones that have lived on as legends in the gaming world.
The games require a bit of technical work around to get running on a modern machine (older games are 'timed' around the clock speed of the computer. As such, the WC games are running incredibly fast compared to the days of 486/66 machines).
Wing Commander: The Kilrathi Saga is a collection of the first three chapters of the Wing Commander franchise. While the site only allows you to download the first two parts of the game, these two are the ones that have lived on as legends in the gaming world.
The games require a bit of technical work around to get running on a modern machine (older games are 'timed' around the clock speed of the computer. As such, the WC games are running incredibly fast compared to the days of 486/66 machines). But once you got it tinkered to run, you are thrown into the fray of an engaging story, and heart pounding action.
I played WC2 religiously as a kid back in the early to
mid 90's. The game-play was fast and fun, and the story was really interesting, even for a youngster like me. The later addition of a voice add-on pack added to the excitement and the story telling, even though the voice acting was incredibly bad, even for its time. Revolutionary in it's own right, I found this game equally exciting to my other favourite of the day 'Star wars: X-wing CD edition'.
This game broke down many borders for its day: speech, immersive, and interesting story, great dialogue, amazing script, intense action, and many more. Of course if you didn't care for the story, you could just skip it and dive right into the fray bypassing the 'view story line' chamber from your quarters.
There was death, romance, treachery, hell; it was as much a movie as it was a game. For me it was 'I got to pass this mission to find out what happens next!' and that feeling has never been recreated in a game yet!
Sure, other games have tried to do what Wing Commanders done. Roberts even wrote the brilliant stories for Freelancer and Starlancer, but even then those games could not even compare to Wing Commander (even though Freelancer had a plot that seemed to share a lot of elements from the Wing Commander series) but if you want a modern WC experience, defiantly check out Starlancer, it won't disappoint.
Finally, the star fighter designs are nothing but amazing in these games, and I much prefer them to the later 'boxy' style that the WC adopted with WC3. The Rapier will always be the coolest fighter, and the power you will feel when you pilot the huge broadsword will be nothing to shake your head at!
For a revolutionary game, and something that I have always wanted to revisit from my childhood, WC: KS gets a great 9.5 out of 10!
