Yes they don't show you game examples. That's because it looks pixely messa from the original. There are lots of walkthroughs on Youtube search STAR WARS™: Dark Forces Remaster. This is basically old Doom like engine in a Star Wars settings and it still looks like an old Doom engine and totally not worth the very high asking price. Let this one rest in piece. KOTOR is so much better.
Bridge Commander is not just a campaign game, its a platform and a sandbox. The modding of the core game is extensive. The base game gives you an interesting Star Trek type mission to solve and its quite tricky at times as the mission scripting is really sensitive. There is no joysticj support but you can use joytokey or voice attack. The character models show their age but the game engine is solid. The mods have much better ships and even alternative bridges so you can fly around in a klingon BOP. There is a downside to all the modding in that you can totally change the ships and weapons effectiveness. There is a mod call Bridge Commander Remastered it looks good, but they have changed the stock ships so that in the normal quick battle a ship that should easily win is destroyed easily by a weaker oponent. This makes the remastered game really un-balanced. You can spend a whole bunch of time finding ships and bridges and star systems to write your own scenarios and its all scripted in python. Totally worth getting and there isn't really anything good since which is a total own goal. Multiplayer on LAN still works. Max resolution 1920x1080. Now we just need Klingon academy on GOG.
Having backed this on Kickstarter in the early days, I was quite disappointed with the game they released. It's a reasonably pretty space shooter that is quite difficult to get into. Not really a strategic or even tactical game. Not worth more than a knock down sale price unlike the kickstarter. It also gets quite boring quite quickly. So a 3 star game, really for the space mecha anime fans.
I remember this from my first PC. I still have the CD but could not get it to work. This works out of the box/download. Its actually aged remarkably well. The combat mechanics are Wing commander II era but the sound track is amazing - good laser sounds and a killer techno battle music. It's better than I remember it because I was playing on low memory hardware so this runs beautifully. For a game of its age the graphics are low resolution but the game play makes it a fun mission based space fighter shooter. Not as good as X-wing from the same era but a worthy legacy space fighter game. It's also set in the FASA Renegade Legion universe which makes it unique.
Ok I'm on Windows 7 but it won't play at 1440 even though the default is set to that. To play at 1080 that runs I have to change the desktop resolution at it won't stretch to monitor resolutio and I have a tiny 1080 window in a 1449 desktop. The menu music is really annoying after your 50th restart, same for the red loading logos and text how to skip it it also killed windows twice. Having got it going at 1080 finally, you talk to NPCs and their lips don't even move, this is mass effect Andromeda levels of QA. The first part of the game is on rails. The training isn't great took ages to work out these is a secret spot beghind a guard that enables an action. I can't get the action key on the mouse, so awkward keyboard reaching F. Going to try Xbox controller next as it's clearly cons ole centric. The people look like they are made of plastic. Gunnery seems totally arbitrary in accuracy. Nice lighting. Doesn't look anything like the slick promo videos even at 1080p Ultra.
I bought my Amiga 500 so I could play this originally. It's not as good as X-wing from the same era. The ships are pop-up sprites on a box. The resolution is also stuck in the 90s. I would start with Wing Commander III which is a totally playable game with a lot more. Chris Roberts could actually release games then unlike now.
