These are a mixed bag but I think I preferred the work that went into Wing Commander 1. There are also new digital samples for all the sound effects. These new samples do only replace the original speech so there isn’t full speech throughout like there was on the Sega CD WC1. I can’t comment on the acting but I would imagine that can only be an improvement also. Giant metal spaceships probably would have a serious echo I suppose so I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt. The audio quality appears to be better than the PC provided you don’t object to the massive amount of reverb on everything. The speech has been re-recorded with Japanese actors and has new subtitles to match. It may sound the same but this is a step back really as you have to wait for the CD to seek when changing track so it’s considerably less responsive than it might be. The music plays from the CD again but this time it’s literally just a recording of the MT-32 soundtrack. Other than this, the graphics are straight from the PC version looking nice and crisp on the tiny screen. I bash buttons randomly until it lets me through. Setting up my pilot proves to be a bit tricky as I’m presented with a screen of Japanese to contend with. On starting the game, everything should look and sound very familiar for anyone who has played the PC original. To be fair, this does include both the expansions right from the start making it the Towns equivalent of Wing Commander II Deluxe. Which one is actually quicker would be a close run thing. I think I may prefer the pile of floppies it originally came on. The installation process is painfully slow from the single speed CD drive. WC2 needs to be installed to a hard disk however and needs a faster machine so Marty owners can forget about playing this one. The Towns port of WC1 could be played on the base hardware (including the Marty console). I haven’t played Wing Commander 2 on the other hand since blogging through it about 9 years back. WC1 received numerous ports and even a complete remake, most of which I’ve already played through on here. I’ve been looking forward to playing this one for a while now actually. I’m resorting to playing it from a burned CD instead. Since I don’t strictly speaking own a copy of this one myself, the photo is from an Ebay auction where you could if you were so inclined buy it for the giveaway price of 400 Euros. Wing Commander II was released for the FM Towns somewhat belatedly in 1995.
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