Wing Commander™ 3 Heart of the Tiger™

Is quite possibly the best FMV game ever made. This doesn't mean much to some - but jesus.. just play it. Seriously. Go and pick it up, play it, and if you in ANY way enjoy the genre.. you'll love this game.

Every so often I'll replay this series again. I am never let down.

While the game play itself is of course primitive by today's standards, this game is truly a classic worth owning for it's story. The narrative plot is well-crafted and the acting is superb. Moreover, the fact that you get to control the dialogue of the characters and the direction of such a compelling story makes it still enjoyable even today.

I had played WC1 & 2 as well as Privateer. The concept in which actors are used is ahead of it's time and still original. The games moves quickly and is fun. What more can you ask for. Great job.

This game is FMV at its best, with good acting and not excessively linear, you can actually influence the morale of your wingmen with dialogue choices like a sort of RPG. The gameplay is a lot better than the first two Wing Commander games for the simple fact that now the spaceships are 3D models instead of sprites, eliminating the problems that affected WC 1 & 2 caused by the lack of a proper sense of perspective when flying near any ship bigger than a fighter. There are many other gameplay improvements: You can fly into a carrier's hangar and blow up its fighters before they can launch; the targeting computer now gives you an aim indicator when you lock a target; they implemented an energy management system, although it's not as intuitive and easy to use as in other (even older) spacesims; you can customize your loadout before entering the mission and even change ship in most missions and most of alla they ditched those annoying asteroid fields with random spawning, one of the most boring and frustrating features of the first two games. There are still a few issues however: sometimes the game engine doesn't register collisions with capital ships and you end up flying inside them (no, i'm not referring to the beforementioned hangar flying) and the planetary missions are a bit buggy, with buildings that disappear exactly when you are close enough to crash into them, and then there is the mission design that is only slightly less basic if compared to WC 1 and 2, with a lot of patrol, escort and search and destroy missions with very few twists. Overall I greatly enjoyed it, although the mere gameplay is not up to standard with games like Tie Fighter, it compensates with much flashier storytelling and the rpg elements, if you like spacesims this is a must buy. PS: Now waiting for wing Commanger IV on GOG... EDIT [which of course is on GOG now, this review is from when I finished the game for the first time and the fourth game wasn't available yet on GOG]