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The guide gets around this by saying that these missions did occur but were either flown by pilots on other ships or other pilots on the Tiger’s Claw and presents their reports for the missions. Wing Commander I did of course feature a branching storyline. I found myself skimming the mission reports and concentrating on these.
#Wing commander privateer failed mission guide series#
After the end of Wing Commander I, the author admits as much in a side panel and for the remainder of the book, the mission descriptions are briefer and always on a single page, with less story.Īfter each series of missions in a system, there are a couple more pages of storyline, which are far more entertaining than the missions themselves. It does give some tactical advice at times but Wing Commander isn’t the most tactical of games. However, if you are just reading it as a one off to get help on a particular mission, it works reasonably well, although I’m not sure that there is much more benefit from reading the text in most cases. If you can imagine trying to describe each mission in detail, over and over you will soon run out of ideas and it inevitably becomes extremely repetitive. It’s at this point that the book flounders if you are attempting to read it as a novel. Each mission has 1 or 2 pages describing what occured, still written as a novel with a map of the mission and a little side box containing notes. Maniac starts out brash and unorthadox before gradually maturing and attempting to conform before breaking down altogether. It’s curious that Maniac is seen as such an important character as he played a very minor role in all these games, before becoming the irreverent sidekick in WC4.Īfter the academy it gets to the missions proper. Lafong is in the same class as Maniac and to a large extent, the storyline throughout the book concentrates on his relationship with Maniac. It reads quite well as a novel but also introduces basic tactics that you may want to use in the game. It starts off with 50 pages or so with Lafong’s life in the Academy before joining the Tiger’s Claw. LaFong, a 73 year old retired Conferderation pilot who flew all these missions in real life before a guy called Tristan Roberts decided to base his next bionetic holo-vid on his experiences. The book is written from the viewpoint of Lt.
#Wing commander privateer failed mission guide manual#
In the book itself two other people are credited with that manual so I guess he must have contributed and/or managed rather being the primary author. The name may not be immediately familiar but he is described on the back cover as the person who wrote the Claw Marks manual in Wing Commander making him an excellent choice for this. It was published in 1992 by Prima and written by Mike Harrison. It’s spread out over 300 pages with the first 220 pages covering Wing Commander 1, Secret Missions 1 & 2 + Wing Commander 2 and the remainder of the book being dedicated to interviews and the story of how the game was devloped. This is an entirely different kettle of fish with the book reading as a novel almost from start to finish. The first book 2 books, I’ve looked at in the last 2 days didn’t take much reading.