Cd32 Wing Commander is pretty good actually I have pretty much every version of this game, and in the context of all those releases it'd good. On an 030 machine with the utility that allows you to run it, it's quite good.
Sound is the best of any version. No wierd FM synthesis that was the trademark of dos games. You get Amiga MOD style music where a drum hit sounds like a drum hit, not a piece of aluminum foil rubbed on a tile floor.
the only thing I miss are the speech packs? It's a cd game. why no speech pack as standard?
The 3do version of Wing Commander 3 was quite good too if you're a fan of the seires.
Runs nice on an SX-1 equipped cd32, even the bare cd32 was playable. I give the SuperNintendo version a slightly higer grade but it had great pixel scaling capabiliies, great color but the screen mode appear to have less overall pixels and falls short on the speed and art direction.
Remember back in the day, you needed a HEFTY tricked out 386dx33 486DX to play this thing well.
Sadly the only thing we get today is a pedestrian Xbox live Arcade game that capitalizes on the name but really misses the boat in every regard, except nostalgia.
Pretty wild when you conider this was such a game changing killer app for the PC. When it came to the Amiga vs. PC p*ssing contest...How many PC dorks used the "Amiga doesn't have anything like Wing Commander" trump card? I lost count. Those dudes were amazed by the simplicity of an Amiga 1000 and it's ability to print,access a floppy drive be online connected to a BBS, and run Deluxe Paint with just 2 megs of ram. The PC coudnlt do this.
Amazing with the technological advancements these days no one has tied to produce a space opera- fighter ship combat game sim for XBOX360 or PS3. I'm stuck playing Battlestar Galactica for XBOX, Jedi Starfighter, and Rebel Assult for the Game cube.