Wing Commander™ 1+2

Ugh I ignored the other reviews citing performance issues with this game. I should have listened. Unplayable, choppy, laggy; all the bad things.

Great games its a shame WC1 becomes a slideshow when heavy fighters start showing up in the campaign. There should be a DISCLAIMER!! I usually trust GOG to deliver old games that run well but this has shaken my trust for sure.

I bought these when they were first released and played them repeatedly through the 90s. I had every motivation to get this GOG version to work and after many many hours I give up. I tried every trick from everywhere. I tried reinstalling, changing DOSBOX, changing mouses, buying a joystick, etc. It is unplayable. My game whiplashes between way too slow and way too fast. It doesn't recognize half of the commands, so it doesn't shoot when I tell it to, it doesn't turn when I need it to, and missiles will not fire without repeatedly hammering the button. The mouse freezes, and the only fix it to alt-tab away and then back to it. I sincerely hope you get this amazing game to run for yourself, but buyer beware.

Well, there are two games in this pack. The first wing commander might have been a big revolution back in its days but now it's virtually unplayable. It's tied to the CPU speed and is either too slow (if you have too many things going on on the screen) or too fast. There is also no way to adjust detail settings and the like. The second one is much better programmed and is quite playable but both of them suffer from the same thing - the crafts are represented as sprites which have only finite pre-rendered view angles. This makes it often hard to notice which way enemy craft is facing. And makes the movement and rotation of big spaceships (destroyers, carriers) jerky. The writing though is good and lets you get gently into the lore of all WC saga.

I've used to play WC back in the days when it was new. It might be 30 y ago, but I still have the feel for it imho- and was very disappointed. Game speed makes it simply unplayable. I#m aware I could adjust constantly the DOS box cycles, but that's not the way it should be. Please fix.