Wing Commander ®: Privateer ™

Prevateer 2 The darkening is the episod after Wing Commander Privateer. I don't know the fisrt one, but the second one introduce real cinematics with real actors. A very complete game for 1996, in fact one of the best games I ever play. I guess Gog should propose it and I promise you won't regrett if you tried it !

I love this game and I would definitely buy it if it included the expansion packs (speech + righteous fire)

This is freakin awesome. Now if they get the rest of the Wing Commander series and Utlima series I will be their bestest pal.

This game started the idiot concept that when hostiles were around you couldn't navigate well. Hostiles are free to come & go but you aren't--unfair! WC Privateer's hostiles are relentles. The only way I found to enjoy and explore was to immediately sell off guns, shield, missles, etc. Bought Humboldt map and hauled comodies w invulnerable on--absolutely no missions. Used same strategy on RGO ignoring Orzu favor whole game.

I was so excited getting to play this again because I never beat it the first time around back in '93. And now I remember why. The third to last mission is impossible. Several attempts and several hours wasted and no progress. That's the exact opposite of fun. It was pretty great up until Taryn Cross's third mapping mission and then all the joy and excitement up until that point is demolished by wave and after wave of pirates and Kilrathi. There're no tricks or strategy to this one. Apparently the programmers were stuck in the mindset of Wing Commander where you actually had wingmen and some backup. This is PRIVATEER. You're alone. What goes through a developer's mind that 1 ship vs. 16-20 are totally reasonable odds? I'm sick and tired of games where developers seem to think endless repetition of missions until you get lucky is 'fun' and 'challenging'. My dayjob is challenging. I'm just here for the fun. Privateer, 20 years later, can still suck it. Pointless.