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  Wing Commander CIC Music
Wing Commander - Briefing and Scramble by The Fatman
Wing Commander II - Jazz's Escape by The Fatman
Wing Commander II - Midgame by Dana Glover & Martin Galaway
www.wcnews.com /music   (712 words)

  
 Wing Commander Saga - Home
Hermes Command, I’ve got two platoons sweeping through the base, third platoon is heading to the reactor to shut off the self-destruction device the Kats have rigged.
It's clever blend of rock, engines, and weaponry is another testament of the Kilrathi's guile and creativity in the art of war.
Wing Commander, Privateer and other products of Origin are © by Origin.
www.wcsaga.com   (590 words)

  
  Review - Wing Commander Prophecy // GBA /// Eurogamer
Well, Raylight Studios certainly seems to think it can be done, as the developer has taken as much of the concept of the original PC Wing Commander as possible and squeezed it into everyone's favourite diminutive console.
You are stationed as a rookie pilot aboard a large carrier called the Midway, which comes under threat from a previously unknown alien race known as the Nephilim.
Wing Commander Prophecy is at times a wonderful effort and a tremendous tech demo that kept us entertained for all of a couple of hours, but that's all it eventually feels like - a tech demo.
www.eurogamer.net /article.php?article_id=52553   (674 words)

  
  WING COMMANDER
Wing Commander was bred and owned by Francis Dodge (ex Johnson) van Lennep, who owned his sire Anacacho Shamrock and his dam Flirtation Walk.
The effect that Wing Commander had on the Saddlebred industry both in South Africa and the USA is enormous.
Then one must also consider that during the heyday of Wing Commander, the mere presence of Dodge Stables on the show grounds, must have had an intimidating effect on some judges and like the tradition in boxing, if the champ performs credibly, there is reluctance to de-throne him.
www.newlineza.com /wing_commander.htm   (1994 words)

  
  Wing Commander - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wing Commander (rank), in some air forces, is a rank equivalent to a Lieutenant Colonel in other air forces.
Wing Commander (computer game) is a popular computer game from the early to mid 1990s, the most recent being Wing Commander: Secret Ops, published by Origin Systems, Inc.
Wing Commander (film) is a 1999 movie based on the computer game series.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wing_Commander   (144 words)

  
 Wing Commander
Wing Commander is a movie based off of a series of computer games created by Chris Roberts.
The Wing Commander computer games were revolutionary, taking "flight-sim lite" action sequences and combining them with cut scenes with characters who actually had a personality.
Starting with Wing Commander III and IV, Roberts actually filmed the cut scenes using cult favorite actors such as Mark Hamill, Malcolm McDowell, and the guy who played Biff in the Back to the Future scenes.
www.moviewatchers.20m.com /reviews/wingcom.html   (409 words)

  
 GameSpot Presents: 15 Most Influential Games of All Time
Wing Commander was certainly a technical feat, but it's all the more impressive when you account for its innovations on the retail market, thanks to its expansion packs and for its innovations as a computer narrative because of its epic story.
Fans of Wing Commander may even recall the distinctive manual that came with the game, which was written and presented as a journal for the pilots and crew aboard the Tiger's Claw, the space cruiser on which the game took place.
Wing Commander's game design was completely revolutionary, and so it's really no surprise that many game designers still seek to achieve that same singular balance of technology and creativity.
gamespot.com /gamespot/features/pc/most_influential/p2.html   (571 words)

  
 Wing Commander: The Kilrathi Saga download @ Game Downloads   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Wing Commander III presents a high-resolution, fully polygonal game engine with detailed, texture-mapped spaceships and a greater field of vision than any of its predecessors.
Wing Commander: The Kilrathi Saga is a fine package for those who either didn't get a chance to play through the entire series, or for those longing to experience it again after all this time.
Whatever the reason, Wing Commander: The Kilrathi Saga delivers true classics that are watershed in the crowded space combat arena.
free-game-downloads.mosw.com /abandonware/pc/arcade_action/games_w/wing_commander_the_kilrathi_saga.html   (451 words)

  
 Wing Commander   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Wing Commander Andy Green, who leads the operations wing at RAF Wittering, near Peterborough, will be detachment commander of 165 RAF staff and six planes...
Wing Commander (rank) is a rank in the Royal Air Force, equivalent to a Lieutenant Colonel in most Armies, Air Forces, the Royal Marines and the United States Marine Corps.
Wing Commander (computer game) is a popular video game from the early to mid 1990s, the most recent being Wing Commander: Secret Ops, published by Origin Systems, Inc
www.wikiverse.org /wing-commander   (230 words)

  
 Wing Commander Prophecy for PC video game review and cheats   (Site not responding. Last check: )
By the end of Wing Commander 4, the Kilrathi were at peace with Confed, Malcolm McDowell had made some swell speeches, and Blair could safely retire back to his farm or become a senator or whatever he wanted to do.
This is where Wing Commander Prophecy picks up: a Kilrathi mining outpost gets obliterated out of nowhere and reports begin filtering in that whatever killed the cats had also dismembered them, dissected them, and pretty well disgraced them in every way short of running up big charges on their credit cards.
Wing Commander Prophecy's audio is well scored, both the ambient sounds of space flight and weapons, and the music, speech, and other effects.
www.gamezilla.com /review.aspx?review=7479   (1472 words)

  
 Review: Wing Commander   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Wing Commander starts out in the same way that almost every second or third-rate science fiction movie begins: a few centuries in the future, humanity is at war with a vile-looking alien species.
One of Wing Commander's biggest mistakes is attempting to tackle the subject of racism (using an allegory, of course).
Wing Commander is the motion picture debut of director Chris Roberts (who has helmed video segments for episodes of the computer game), and it's not a promising start.
movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/w/wing_commander.html   (772 words)

  
 WING COMMANDER movie review (with photos and clips where possible)
In Wing Commander, the computer game, the player is called upon to imagine that he is a fighter pilot in a squadron somewhere out in the galaxy, battling an alien enemy.
But in Wing Commander, the movie, the viewer is asked to imagine that he is being entertained by this flat and derivative movie.
The final touch is their wing commander, Jeanette ``Angel'' Deveraux (Saffron Burrows), a no-nonsense cold fish who warms up to Blair.
www.rochestergoesout.com /mov/w/wingco.html   (519 words)

  
 Wing Commander   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Wing Commander (rank) is a rank in the Royal Air Force, equivalent to a Lieutenant Colonel in most Armies, the Royal Marines and the United States Marine Corps.
Wing Commander is a popular computer game from the early to mid 1990s, the most recent being Wing Commander: Secret Ops, published by Origin Systems, Inc.
Wing Commander is a 1999 movie based on the computer game series.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/W/Wing-Commander.htm   (145 words)

  
 Wing Commander Movie Review by Anthony Leong
Sad to say, the only thing good about "Wing Commander", the latest 'movie based on a video game', is the impressive trailer for the upcoming "Star Wars" prequel, "The Phantom Menace".
Commander Gerald (Jurgen Prochnow of "The Replacement Killers") is suspicious of the new arrivals.
"Wing Commander" suffers from the same problems that have plagued its predecessors, plundering elements from "Star Wars", "Battlestar Galactica", "Top Gun", "Space: Above and Beyond", and numerous World War II naval dramas.
www.mediacircus.net /wingcommander.html   (1015 words)

  
 Wing Commander   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Wing Commanders are first expected to function in the same way for their CMDRs as the CMDRs do for their own pilots, by taking care of the CMDRs' BSFs etc...
In addition to this, Wing Commanders are expected to create opportunities for the pilots in their Wing to take part in contests with other members of the TIE Corps, and these are generally larger and more complex contests than those organized by Squadron Commanders.
Any Wing Commander who drops out of contact for more than one week without an exceptionally good reason can expect to find someone in Wing Operations upon their return, but individual Commodores may be flexible about this regulation.
www.iei.net /~dpippen/wing_commander.htm   (352 words)

  
 Abandonia - Abandonware DOS Games - Download Wing Commander
He is the genius behind the world in Ultima V and Wing Commander and it is for good reason that the motto of the, sadly deceased company, Origin was “We create worlds”.
Wing Commander is not a 3D game but it tries to be.
Wing Commander III Hart of the Tiger added full motion video and starred Mark “Luke Skywalker” Hamill (not a small sneer to Wing Commander’s great rival the TIE Fighter series).
www.abandonia.com /games/en/137/WingCommander.htm   (885 words)

  
 Austin's Wing Commander Info
Simpler than Wing Commander 1's.Shortly after the Firekka campaign, the Tiger's Claw attempts to attack the Kilrathi headquarters in the Enigma sector, but is ambushed by new Kilrathi Strakha stealth fighters and is lost.
Wing Commander II was ported to the FM Towns.
Wing Commander Academy was a thirteen episode animated series which originally aired on the USA Network between September 21st and December 21st, 1996.
www.geocities.com /joe_momma_j   (2206 words)

  
 Salon 21st | 'Wing Commander' creator takes the director's chair
The 30-year-old Roberts is the maestro behind the Wing Commander games, which from their 1990 debut featured "cut scenes" played between the action to narrate their saga -- a futuristic space opera in which the player pilots a starcraft to battle brutal, feline-ish aliens called the Kilrathi.
To date, Wing Commander, its sequels and various spinoffs have generated more than $110 million for their publisher, Origin Systems.
Wing Commander happens to be a game where the whole basis is story and character.
www.salon.com /21st/feature/1999/03/12feature.html   (780 words)

  
 Wing Commander Movie Review by Anthony Leong
Sad to say, the only thing good about "Wing Commander", the latest 'movie based on a video game', is the impressive trailer for the upcoming "Star Wars" prequel, "The Phantom Menace".
Commander Gerald (Jurgen Prochnow of "The Replacement Killers") is suspicious of the new arrivals.
"Wing Commander" suffers from the same problems that have plagued its predecessors, plundering elements from "Star Wars", "Battlestar Galactica", "Top Gun", "Space: Above and Beyond", and numerous World War II naval dramas.
members.aol.com /aleong1631/wingcommander.html   (1015 words)

  
 wg comm.
During a trip to the Illinois State Fair in 1952, the van containing Wing Commander and his full sister Lover's Lane hit a tractor trailer carrying a bulldozer which was parked on the roadside.
Wing Commander and Lover's Lane were not seriously injured, although they were quite skinned up.
In January 1969, Wing Comander developed colic and despite the efforts of veterinarians, medicine and hours of walking, he died at the age of twenty six.
www.exposureplus.com /wg_comm_.htm   (396 words)

  
 WING COMMANDER
Escorted by the enigmatic Commander James "Paladin" Taggart (TCHÉKY KARYO), the two pilots arrive on the Tiger Claw, run by Captain Sansky (DAVID SUCHET) and Commander Gerald (JÜRGEN PROCHNOW), the latter of whom doesn't like Chris because his mother was a Pilgrim.
A mess of a movie that's stale, unappetizing and hard to swallow, "Wing Commander" is a vehicle that should never have gotten off the ground.
Commander Gerald is a bigot toward anyone with Pilgrim blood in their veins, which includes Chris.
www.screenit.com /movies/1999/wing_commander.html   (1829 words)

  
 Wing Commander (feature film)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The only Wing Commander feature film released of March 31 2004 opened on March 1999 in 2 019 theaters and closed 3 1999 grossing $11 576 087 in An opening week gross of $5 114 (44.18% of the total gross) secured it place in the weekly standings.
The real highlight of this CD is Coastal Command by Vaughan Williams, which was written as the score for a WWII propaganda film.
Despite the fact that Wing Commander is basically just a World War II submarine movie flung into the future, it's still very good.
www.freeglossary.com /Wing_Commander_(feature_film)   (325 words)

  
 ODP: Games:Video Games:Action:Space Combat:Wing Commander Games   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Wing Commander - The Revival - General news, timeline, encyclopedia, and modding information.
Wing Commander Combat Information Center - General news, polls, links, files and fan art on Wing Commander.
Wing Commander RPG - The Edge Of Chaos - A group of role-playing games.
beta.thesoftwarestudio.com /Games,Video_Games,Action,Space_Combat,Wing_Commander_Games.html   (238 words)

  
 All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Wing Commander
Chris Roberts's WING COMMANDER is a cinematic fl hole that's liable to suck your brains out as you attempt to decipher its impenetrable story.
First-time director Roberts, who "directs" the movie based on his video game, clearly seems to be working in the wrong medium and doesn't have much of a clue as to how to stage a motion picture.
I tried watching the actors' mouths move since another theory of mine was that the movie was originally in a foreign language, and the problem was a bad English dubbing.
www.all-reviews.com /videos/wing-commander.htm   (512 words)

  
 Wing Commander: 1999 20th Century Fox Movie Wing Commander
In "Wing Commander", you have the good looking young fighter pilot Chris Blair (Freddie Prinze Jr.) who in the 27th century joins in an intersellar war to battle against Kilrathi who is trying to destroy the universe.
And then there is the wing commander Jeannette "Angel" Deveraus who doesn't seem to like Chris at first.
The movie, Wing Commander, is based on the popular computer game and it is directed by its creator.
www.casenet.com /movie/wingcommander.htm   (227 words)

  
 Home of the Underdogs - Entry: Wing Commander: Privateer   (Site not responding. Last check: )
You are free to explore the Wing Commander universe by taking on the roles of merchant, mercenary, smuggler and/or pirate.
The space combat engine used in Wing Commander 2 was greatly improved in Privateer.
The combat interface and flight model carry over from Wing Commander games and are very effective, although they still blatantly ignore the laws of physics (banking is impossible, for instance).
www.the-underdogs.org /game.php?id=1271   (631 words)

  
 Wing Commander Prophecy   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Wing Commander Prophecy demonstrated a shift away from the lengthy FMV sequences of the previous two games and a return of the focus on gameplay.
Extensive background information for Wing Commander Prophecy is available at the CIC.
Other music from Wing Commander Prophecy is also available from the CIC’s music albums section.
home.iprimus.com.au /Wedge009/WCP   (545 words)

  
 Wing Commander: Battle For Enigma @ www.ezboard.com
Sim meetings for Wing Commander: Battle For Enigma are Sundays at 9:00 p.m.
Wing Commander: Bloody Thirteen is a message-board sim Marine unit.
Wing Commander is a registered trademark of Origin Systems Inc.
go.ezboard.com /bwctff   (82 words)

  
 Wing Commander
Since Wing Commander is moribund right now, I've got some suggestions for people who want the same feel from newer games.
Basic Walkthrough/log of Wing Commander I. 01a.htm Useful notes.
Wing Commander II.5 -- Using Wing Commander Academy stats (and Privateer gun definitions)
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 Xbox 360 - The Official Magazine - Wing Commander confirmed!
Following the ESRB fuelled rumours of yesterday, EA have today confirmed that Wing Commander is indeed heading for Xbox Live Arcade.
Set for release this Summer, Wing Commander Arena is the second XBLA title from EA with Boom Boom Rocket also due this Spring.
"To me, the Wing Commander games were always a bit like the 'gorgeous girl' you pulled whilst drunk out of your mind; looked great, full of promise, but then blew it by being a narcissistic, shallow, over-indulgent pile of donkey wank.
www.oxm.co.uk /articles/news/hardware/wing_commander_confirmed!   (365 words)

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