Wing Commander IV The Price of Freedom Complete Playthrough

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Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom (1996)

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♦ Title: Wing Commander IV The Price of Freedom
♦ Publisher: Electronic Arts
♦ Developer: Origin Systems
♦ Published: 1996
♦ Genre: Simulator
♦ Format: Windows 95
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Wing Commander IV was released on all major computer and console systems back in 1996. I bought a copy for the Playstation 1, and I also bought a copy for the PC as well. The game was very similar to Wing Commander III which was released 2 years earlier. Even most the cast from Wing Commander 3 were on Wing Commander 4 as well. Back in 1996, you had a lot of game magazines which had their front cover about how much this game cost to make. I don't remember exactly, but I think they stated it cost about $14 million to produce this game. That was unheard of at the time, most games didn't have such big budgets. As a matter of fact, most computer games were produced on shoe string budgets. The reason why it cost so much to make this game was due to the fact, it used a Hollywood all star cast. Mark Hamil was the main character of the game, and we all know him from the Star Wars Trilogy. Malcolm Mcdowell who was the antagonist of the game was also a famous actor in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. You had Tom Wilson who was in Back to the Future Trilogies as Biff Tannen, and a host of other actors who starred in major films in Hollywood.

The game it self has about 6 CD-ROM disks, and most of it was from the video clips. I am sure it took a major motion picture crew to take all the film footage. The game was basically a interactive movie, and interactive movie games were very popular in the mid 1990s. You had games like 7th Guest, Myst, Gabriel Knights Sins of the Father, and many others which were in this format. The advent of CD-ROM drives being on computers made it possible to make interactive games. You even had game console systems, like 3do, Playstation, and the Sega Saturn which had a lot of interactive games as well. At the time, we didn't have a very well developed 3d acceleration technology. The game producers used video clips to make up for this deficiency.

The game play is much like Wing Commander 3, and the graphics were simulator to WC3 as well. If you wanted to run this game back in 1996, you needed at least a 486 DX2-66 mhzs computer. That was the minimum requirement. You needed at least a Pentium 60 to get decently good game play out of it, or it wouldn't run well at all. When I played this game back in 1996, I ran it on my Pentium 100, and it ran fine. Computer hardware back in those days were expensive. Not a lot of people had Pentium computers back in 1996, a lot of people had 386 DXs, and 486 DXs. In the 1990s, if you wanted to play the latest games, you had to spend thousands of dollars on computer hardware to keep up with game technology. Wing Commander IV didn't use 3d acceleration technology, so you needed a very powerful cpu to run it.

The game itself played on 640 x 480 resolution which was pretty good at the time. With a decent computer, the game ran well, and it was rated highly by a lot of game magazines at the time. The game play was like all Wing Commander games, and the controls didn't change from Wing Commander 1. Therefore, if you were familiar with Wing Commander 1 or 2, you could play this game without learning about the game controls or game dynamics. The game itself was very difficult, I did finish the game without any cheats. I didn't even have internet in 1996, so I couldn't have gotten cheats. Most games in the 1990s were very difficult to beat like this game, they were much more challenging than games of today. For some reason, I think this game played much more smoothly on my old Pentium 100 than on Dosbox. You had an incentive to finish the missions, so you could see the video clips. Like all Origin System games, there was a purpose behind the missions.
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♦ Wing Commander IV Original Game @ Amazon
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♦ Wing Commander IV @ Achive.org
• https://archive.org/details/msdos_Wing_Commander_IV_The_Price_of_Freedom_1996
♦ Wing Commander IV Manual
• https://archive.org/details/wingcommanderivthepriceoffreedomplayguide_201911
(If you wish to play this game, you can with PCEM or Dosbox 0.74)
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♠ PCEM Tutorial
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