Posted on: Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Posted in: Angry Army
Comments: 51
EA Approved Wing Commander Saga Launches Free!
After 10 years in the making, the Fan-created Wing Commander Saga has finally launched (which EA has allowed to be distributed)! If you love space combat simulators as much as I or ever had a passing interest in the legendary Wing Commander games then you owe it to yourself to download and try this FREE game! Check out the well done launch trailer below!
The official site is being hammered with traffic so a placeholder is up with the all important links and mirrors to download the full game here.
Indie game developer Anton Romanyuk is trying to bring back all these elements from previous Wing Commander games; No small task. The game has more than nine hours of dialogue recorded from more than 60 voice actors. There are 55 missions, 70 cut scenes and they team has created more than 90 ship models for the game! All this is a FREE release, a labor of love from the fans using the Freespace open source code.
I ask all Army members to download and play the game! If you do, report back here with your feedback and comments! Let me know how you enjoyed or disliked it!
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51 thoughts on “EA Approved Wing Commander Saga Launches Free!”
My knobber just breached through the roof of my house, I’m totally all boned out when I found this. Nothing is gonna make me soft now, unless I saw Kim Kardashian or Roseanne naked.
Can’t wait to try it out, loved the Wing Commander series, we should do a Privateer MMO
galactic battles with guild capital ships and we could man turrets and or bomber turrets for our groups in multi-turret ships 
OHMIGOSH
I haven’t seen these games in forever, shit I barely remember anything, kirathi, terrans, ho boy. This will be interesting.
Has finally managed to download it last night (has to deal with very limited and somewhat slow internet) played first few missions and is already having great fun. It is very clear that it is running on the freespace 2 engine as their are quite a few similarities in looks. Still it is clearly still its own game with the ship models and weapons looking clearly different. Though so far I havent been able to choose my ship or weapons. Is dissapointed that I cant seem to open comm channels with the kilrathi and call them furballs anymore though.
Looks pretty interesting, excluding the fact that it’s actually free.
I’m gonna have to watch a few gameplay videos or reviews >.> to see if it’s a game for me…
I am SO excited for this. My name (Hawkye) originated over 15 years ago as my callsign for the original Wing Commander, so it is a series very dear to my heart. I never thought I’d see a new Wing Commander title and I have never been happier to be wrong. And for free? FREE?! I hope that this breathes new life into one of the greatest game series of all time.
I’ve never actually played any of the Wing Commander games but I will certainly give this a shot. Looks pretty awesome.
I’m very impressed. Not only it’s a very polished fan-game and an incredible space simulator, but a worthy Wing Commander title.
Download it now! AngryJoe should review it.
EA? Free stuff? huh thats something new.. Downloading it right now, reporting back later! Devined out!
The game is using a modified Freespace 2 engine (from the late 90′s), so it’s kind of like a Freespace 2 campaign with WC ships and storylines in. And no Mark Hamill, sadly, guess he’s too busy inventing new Joker laughs to care
Then again, FS2 is STILL the best space fighting sim game ever made.
I’ve only played a few missions yet, ran into some nasty graphics bugs, reported, and got immediate feedback from the developers, they even went as far as to create a new mission file with tweaks to fix my problem!
Awesome guys!
They even made a huge .PDF user manual disguised as a guidebook to the MS Hermes, with lots of NPC and Enemy biographies and stuff you never really needed to know, but it’s there anyways, just like in the 80s and 90s game boxes.
It’s definately not a dud, it’s like a redressed Freespace 2! Which is awesome.
i never played any Wing Commander games before so i wonder if i play this game will i be able to understand story?
Apart of me wants to yell out “IT’S A TRAP!”
But, I loved the original Wing Commander series, so I will definitely give this a try. I miss the sci-fi combat sim games. But with this, and MechWarrior Online on the way….their may be hope!
WC 3 and 4 were the only good WC games ever created. 1 and 2 were decent. Mark Hamel was the best in those games (along with other well known characters). I would prefer they just remake the first four games in HD with all new graphics and maybe using either high quality video (if it still exists) or remaking the videos with highly detailed polygon ver.’s of the live action videos, but with the original audio (if it existed). A new game just doesn’t have my interest.
On a side note that has to be the most lackluster boring trailer for a game I have ever seen. Couldn’t they have put more effort if they are trying to get fans, new or old?!?
Finally the FS2SCP is getting more attention, I’ve been waiting for this to release for a long time now.
This is awesome and it is free.
EA released something for free?
Wat.
“And then EA’s heart grew three sizes that day…”
EA didn’t release anything for free. A team of dedicated modders spent 10 years on this.
Did anyone else notice that the narrator’s voice sounds like Duke Nukem?
Oh Yes! Finally a chance to climp into the cockpit again, and dust of the good old Joystick. This will be an epic weekend.
looks neat.
Shut up and take my money! *hands credit card*
I only played one wing commander game, and it didn’t do anything for me. I’m a FreeSpace and X-Wing guy.
Also, the video looks boring. Some tech-demo clips and genric stock-phrases. Meh…
But man, this is really a redressed Freespace 2 campaign with all new ships and backstory. So if you loved Freespace, you’ll definately love this game. It’s using a (very) modified Freespace 2 engine, so you get all the awesome juggernauts just hanging there and blazing the screen with huge laser beam weapons, the cozy lighting effects, everything. And a fully voice acted campaign.
Freespace and X-Wing came along long AFTER Wing Commander. Some would say that WC “set the bar” for what came later, since the WC games were really the first ones to push the limits on PC hardware of the time and laid the foundation for X-Wing, Tie Fighter, and many others.
I’ve played Saga and have to say, it’s a fair bit like all the WC titles, and especially reminds me of WC: Prophecy.
looks great i’l try it
Damn! Why is my 5 years old laptop has only only one 1GB of RAM!
Fell I guess I will have to wait another couple of months =(
Love it, love it, and love it.
Just played through a handful of missions in the game and very impressed so far, largely because it is an independent project. The gameplay is fast and fluid, which i guess is to be expected since it was developed in the Freespace 2 Engine. And i guess if this is indicative of the quality of Freespace 2, i’m missing out there having never played that game. I did play through WC3 after buying it on GOG and i loved it. The only thing i would be disappointed about with this new WC release is the potential lack of Mark Hamill.
Well Mark Hammels character died in the last offical WC game, so weither or not there was a new offical game, i doubt very much if he would reprise his role
Dammit, now I’m gonna hafta find out where I packed my flight stick! It’s the ONLY way to play WC.
Why is the trailer all text, lol?
I was honestly hoping for some gameplay to show how the project turned out, heh…
Perhaps it’s a little embarrassing to admit, but I got into this series because of the crappy Hollywood movie. I watched it when I was younger, thought it was cool spaceships shootin’ stuff, heard there was a game and then played those never giving the movie a second thought. Glad to see the series is making a come back.
Looks awesome, like something that shouldve been put into a mass effect game
I second that!
Sounds like a plan. I’ll give it a go and report when enough data is acquired. Godspeed dood.
I played Descent: Freespace and Freespace 2 and i am SO GLAD that the code that ran on is still alive and kicking!
‘K, I guess I’m not buying this one.
Honestly i don’t like the pessimist tone. This Human losers plot feels too much like Halo.
You do realise that Halo (2001) came years and years after even the *last* real Wing Commander (1997), don’t you? So, you should say that Halo sounds a lot like Wing Commander, even if I don’t see the resemblance, plenty of sci-fi games where the humans are losing, and most prior to that crappy excuse for an FPS.
Downloading it now, gotta go find a functioning joystick to use though.
To the attic!
Can’t wait to try this out!
I loved the wing commander series. You damn right I’m going to download it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni1kwVq_UEk
Now to start downloading
Mission accepted
Brandimer OUT…
Holy crap!
I accept the mission with hounour sir!
Looking forward to see your review of this game!
oh god yes. I loved the wing commander games and hated it when I could no longer play them due to technical issues. I am going straight to downloading this
Mission accepted!
Letz’s download!
i new there was a reason i kept my sidewinder force feedback 2 joystick, will have to dust it off and give this game a go yay
Looks amazing, time to dust of ‘ye ol’joystick. This would be amazing with multiplayer…
does it play on MAC?
I kinda feel bad playing this thing for free.