Once you land, you find the ship is deserted and adrift, and an inoperative fighter with a weapon you are able to take.Īs soon as you leave though, the Steltek ship – the alien one that has been causing all the trouble – shows up and begins pursuing you. She contracts you to investigate the rim and this eventually leads you to a Derelict at the edge of known space. To find the indicated system, you have to travel to the Rygannon system where you find Taryn Cross of Exploratory Services.
It seems that the two form an ancient star map, and the coordinates they give indicate a system just beyond the fringes of charted space. After fighting with Lynn Murphy, the woman who is running a resistance against the bounty hunters, you are able to fly Monkhouse out of the system and learn that the artifact comes in two pieces, and he gives you the other half. There is a standoff between bounty hunters who have the world blockaded, and they must be defeated before he can be evacuated. To find Monkhouse who is looking to get out of the system as soon as possible. Monkhouse was last seen in the Palan system at the edge of known space, so its off to Palan you go… Apparently, the doctor was investigating an ancient civilization known as the Steltek, a super-advanced species that is believed to have died out. Once you’re finished scanning the artifact, it concludes that it was uncovered by an archaeological dig in a far-flung system, led by a doctor named Monkhouse. In exchange for running missions, he will allow you access. Upon landing there, you work out an agreement with Masterson, the dean of the university. After beating him, you head for Oxford where the University and Archives are located to conduct research on the artifact yourself. After confirming that the artifact is of alien origin, he double-crosses you and sends his body guard Miggs to kill you.
WING COMMANDER PRIVATEER MODS SERIES
Once again, you are contracted to fly a series of missions in exchange for information. Lynch, the notorious mob boss who will take you further. Once complete, Tayla indicates that Sandoval was not the original owner, and sends you to the station of New Constantinople to meet Mr. These take you to and from a Pirate base located out on the rim, where you run a series of missions hauling Brilliance (the designer drug of the day). You are left with his artifact in your hands, and a lady named Tayla who offers answers, in exchange for a few missions. After running a mission for him and returning to the planet, you discover that the man is dead.
Eventually, you find your way to the New Detroit system, where a private contractor named Sandoval hires you to take an artifact off his hands. As you play your first missions and attempt to make your bones, rumors begin to spread that a mysterious ship is attacking shipping in the system. The game opens with the player’s character – Burrows, a privateer – being introduced aboard a mining station in the Achilles system. And once it was all over, you had the feeling that a pretty damn good gaming experience had just occurred. Naturally, the best approach was to combine both elements, playing freelance until you had a descent arsenal, and then taking on the storyline missions. There was a story within the game, but you could either follow that or play entirely on your own. This time around, players were entirely independent, flying missions for private contractors or government payees, building up their savings, and using that money to buy new ships, new weapons, and new equipment. In game two, much the same was true, except that you did not move in rank and the entire game was story-driven rather than based on your personal progress. Over time, your success was mirrored in the course of the war and the theaters of operation you were sent to. In the first, you flew missions and were promoted in rank and to new squadrons based on your performance. In fact, each game in the series had its own particular appeal, choosing to do things a little differently than the last. Rather than delving into the Kilrathi War, which was central to the series, this game addressed the lifestyle of merchants, mercenaries and pirates.Īnd that’s what makes this game so cool. Falling in between Wing Commander II, one of the best selling space combat simulators of all time, and WCIII, this game was a diversion for the series in that it dealt with the dark underside of the WC universe.
Hello all and welcome to another installment in my video game review series! Today, I will be tackling an old (and I mean really old) favorite, a special installment in the Wing Commander series known as Privateer.
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