Unlike Elite, or many other space-trading games, Privateer understood the importance of creating a world that felt like more than menu screens.
Reinstall invites you to join us in revisiting classics of PC gaming days gone by. This week, we take a spin through the rich, interplanetary world of Wing Commander: Privateer. And blow significant portions of it up, of course.
I'll tell you: it's in Privateer. At least, it was. Like the other early Wing Commander games, its use of sprites instead of primitively shaded polygons made for gloriously cinematic space battles back in the early '90s. Their 320x200 pixel graphics blown up on a modern LCD mean much more squinting. See those huge cockpits? You can't hide them. For your first few missions, the biggest challenge is working out if you're meant to use your viewscreen or post a letter through it.
Unlike Elite, or many other space-trading games, Privateer understands the importance of creating a world that feels like more than a few menu screens, even if that's all it boils down to. Each planet type has a unique look. Every nav point you visit could be home to anything from a trader who simply signals hello, to a battle already in progress you can either take part in or afterburner straight through.
This sense of character is something the Wing Commander series did better than any other game, from X-Wing's very sterile aesthetics to Freespace's stripped down “Alpha 1" callsigns and to-the-point mission briefings. Technically the trading is no more intricate than Elite's, and the space combat little more than jousting with plasma guns.
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