Wing Commander Saga: The Darkest Dawn announces launch date!

[Sphynx]

Wing Commander Saga: The Darkest Dawn has been in development for a decade. You have all been waiting for a long time, and so have we. The wait is finally over. The Wing Commander Saga team is happy to present you with the final Wing Commander Saga trailer! The trailer gives a preview of many of Saga's features, including a few that we have kept secret, but it also finally answers our most frequently asked question of "when is Saga's release date?" Check out the trailer and start the count down to launch!Check out the trailer here:

[Geraldine]

Hi SphynxWelcome to the SSC Thank you for letting us know about the Darkest dawn release date Is it going to be a digital download, retail or both?

[sscadmin]

It's free Geraldine so its digital download only as of right now.

[Geraldine]

Free!?! That will teach me to read all the details of new releases, It looks so good I never realised its a Freespace Total Conversion. Well done to the WC Saga dev team! Great work! \O/Here is a link http://www.wcsaga.com/

[Pinback]

How big that's download going to be

[deepseaweed]

PINBACK wrote:
How big that's download going to be
The trailer looks fantastic! PINBACK, I'll burn it on DVD and send it to you by snail mail if it's to big for you to download

[sscadmin]

Well isn't the FSO engine like 1GB in size? So my guess would be that it would be over that because of all of the voiced dialog and cutscenes.

[Sphynx]

The download will be about 3.3 GB.

[Pinback]

deepseaweed wrote:


PINBACK wrote:
How big that's download going to be
The trailer looks fantastic! PINBACK, I'll burn it on DVD and send it to you by snail mail if it's to big for you to download
Cheers for the offer Deepseaweed But I may be able to get a relative to do it.

[Styggron]

WOW !!!!!!!!!!!Who else has played this game so far ? I simply cannot believe how awesome it is!!!! and it's free !!!!!! A 102 page manual!!!!!!!!!!!!! As a Wing Commander fan I am just SPEECHLESS.....I can't even use words to describe the brilliance of the development team as they would be insufficient !!!!!!!!!!!!! I am just AMAZED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is fully fleshed out !!!! Unbelievable !!!!!!!!!!! wow !!!!!!!!!!

[sscadmin]

I tried to tell people in the review that if you ever played the wing commander games of the past you will absolutely love this one. When I played the game I never once saw any hiccups in the gameplay so all the extra time spent on stability paid off. I hope the WCS team does stay together and makes another space/scifi title because they sure showed off their ability to make a quality project.

[Geraldine]

Of course now that WC Saga is safely on my hard drive I just have to play the earlier games too! Although I will always primarily be a fan of the Elite series, Wing Commander and its sequels always had my respect too. These games deserve some of your play time. At present, I am only missing WC IV, Privateer II and WC Academy, but I will keep an eye out for them

[Styggron]

I loved Wing Commander IV. You have probably seen the trailer on Youtube.I played them all in order at the time, sure they are no Elite but still fun and certainly worthy of your time.Wing Commander Armada was pretty good too.Wing Commander V (Prophecy) was different too and I enjoyed that one but not as much as III and IV those are my favourites.

[sscadmin]

Styggron wrote:
Wing Commander V (Prophecy) was different too and I enjoyed that one but not as much as III and IV those are my favourites.
3 & 4 are definitely the best of the series and what a cast for those games. I was supporting a P133 back in them days with dual Monster 3D cards to play these in their full glory. 5 was good as well specially once Blair came into the game. But another one people should try is Privateer 2 as well, Clive Owen does a good job on this.

[Styggron]

I still have the Machine I originally played WC III / IV and V on set up in the same position.P200 with 3DFX card. 82 Meg RAM.It is still installed on there. :-)I am surprised more people have not commented on WC: Saga. I'm loving it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!