Wing Commander: Prophecy - The Movie (Part 2/2)
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- Years after Colonel Christopher Blair (Mark Hamill; Star Wars, Batman: The Animated Series) single-handedly ended the deadly war with the Kilrathi, a new enemy emerges from far cross the stars. Now, it is the duty of the TCS Midway and her crew to stop these deadly aliens before it's too late. This space combat adventure focuses on 2nd Lieutenant Lance Casey; the son of a legendary ace pilot and new recruit into the Confederation Space Force. Alongside veteran pilots Maniac (Thomas F. Wilson; Back to the Future) and Hawk (Chris Mulkey, Rambo: First Blood, The Purge) and his fellow new recruits, Casey will face a terrifying new enemy with ancient origins. Co-starring Peter Jason (They Live, HBO's Deadwood), Jeremy Roberts (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country) and adult actress Ginger Lynn Allen.
NOTES:
-It's far from perfect. Over-all. Video, audio, editing. Expect warts.
-It's fake HD. But in my experience youtube doesn't like SD stuff, and drops the bitrate so uploading an upconverted video results in better quality.
-The video is from the DVD vobs released a few years ago, but those were non-anamorphic so I had to resize all of the FMV.
-There was some kind of graphics glitch on my game...turning off lens flares kind of minimized it, but there are still weird lines around certain objects (pretend they are old school matte boxes!) and the moving stars appear in front of objects.
-Some plot points don't seem to really be covered very well in the game itself. Like the Tiamat dreadnought. I never found any kind of cutscene, briefing or VDU comm that introduces it to the cast. There are a few other things like this, such as Blair insisting to fly and then not really doing so until the end.
-Some of the briefings do not have the computer voice and instead I left the text up longer to give time to read it. The reason for this is some of the time the damned game wouldn't play the sound files, as far as I know there is no way to extract the audio from the game files
-I suck at videogames, so there is some sloppy flying during the game footage
-The in-game HUD is SOOOO not 16x9 friendly, so it's stretched a bit and window-boxed. It won't fill your screen
-Some shots of the Midway have fighters crashing into the ship. It's not my fault, it's bad AI. I achieved the shots by setting my fighter up and afterburning while using rear view and my wingmen decided they ought to follow me...even if it meant going through the ship's hull.
-If you get annoyed at wingmen saying the same thing over and over try playing rhe game. I know you can shut them up, but comms chatter adds to drama
-I only used one non-George Oldziey song in the entire thing, because German metal doesn't exactly fit
-The sync seems to be a bit off for part 2, Rendering took 11 hours and uploading took about 6, so I am not in a hurry to re-do it.
-Working on getting a file of the complete movie uploaded to wcnews.com, the sync on that file is fine since it's a different render.
Great game and good follow up to Wing Commander 3 and 4. Wish they kept this going.
There is always Star Citizen if they ever finish it.
@@jimflagg4009 But that's not part of the same franchise...
Well Origin Games is no more but Cloud Imperioum Games is ran be the same creator of Wing Commander, Chris Roberts.
should have been a real movie
better than the actusl wing commander movie
Mark Hamil's been my favorite from the very beginnings of his Hollywood SciFi Stardom.
Watching this made me a 10 year old, now I gotta clean the icecream off my monitor again.
They need to do a sequel to this. Blair shouldn’t be left in limbo.
Author Peter Telep was writing a trilogy of novels covering the Movie and the Pilgrims but the final book got canceled. Turns out he actually had an idea to save Blair (the manuscript was posted online with EA's blessing). Basically young Blair has a vision of his older self returning to Earth with the rest of the Pilgrim fleet which implied Blair got rescued by the Pilgrims. However I'm not entirely sold on that explanation since I'm not very fond of the Pilgrims. That last novel gives the Pilgrims way too many powers that feel more like Gundam's Newtypes than Wing Commander.
Oh, and that future vision was of the Pilgrims laying waste to Earth hinting that ANOTHER war was on the horizon.
They kind of did, Secret Ops was a kind of follow up to Prophecy, released on a PC Gamer cover disc back in the late 90s.
They have a sequel it is called Squadron 42. That is if they ever finish it.
@@jimflagg4009why did they not set this in the wing commander universe? did he loose the rights?
yes they did.@@JeanLucPicard23
thank you for putting this in these parts. I have always been thinking of a video about the whole story and you just made it....thank you!!!
This is legitimately awesome, thank you so much. So many memories!
I loved playing this game, so funny remembering the part game and part video together like that. Never realized 'Blair' was actually Mark Hamill during the CSs
Cool to finally see it in its entirety, had fun working on it like 20 yests ago;)
I miss Maniac T-T for me one of the best space games ever.
chugged up another one, for the maniac! 🤗
@@pyttpytts2690 Oh break and attack!!! But don't do anything stupid.
Lol that one always gets me.
Actor is great to. Did real good in back to the future also.
There are a few scenes in the cutscenes which could actually be edited together to form a better ending for Christopher Blair if someone wanted to make an alternate, good conclusion to the series. The way I imagine these scenes could be edited together would form the following ending:
1. Blair is not rescued before the ending, but just after the last mission instead (rescued by marine team sent onboard, marine team does not die). So, Casey is recommended for the Silver star, he says "To hell with that! What about the prisoners?", learns that they saved Blair, and then goes to talk with him. Blair talks about what the aliens did to him (memories relived etc), and what they represent ("Death").
2. Scene of Casey + gang together on the flight deck attending medal ceremony. They all congratulate Casey. Blair is watching. He salutes Casey, turns and walks away (from one of the earlier mission success cutscenes).
3. Skips to bar - everyone's drinking, talking, having a good time (from one of the earlier interaction cutscenes).
4. Casey + Girl (can't remember her actual name) pouring glass of private reserve of alcohol. Casey says that the aliens will be back one day. His first line "What should we drink to, Blair?" is skipped and he just says "To comrades and arms!". They both drink.
5. While staring into space, the series ends on a more positive note - Blair was rescued in the end, has done his part, passes the torch onto the next generation with dignity, and the new gang celebrate their success while looking toward the future. Will the aliens be back? If so, humanity is in good hands - this new generation is ready to kick their arses.
Not bad 👍
I, for one, enjoyed WC5 as much as I did WC4. Great game! Dunno why everyone was hating on it.
Kilrathi, are where they?
Daniel Adamczyk They're in Prophecy, a cameo though
theeltea
Yes, only voice over!
Daniel Adamczyk At least they were in WC4 :)
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Thank You for putting this together.
love this game and was hard as hell to tougher then fighting the cats them dam bugs cord take most fighters shields in 2 to 3 hits and take out your armor in 4 to 5 hits and from what you can see even a good pilot well get hit at lest that many times with how you get outnumbered at some points 10 to 1 but still had a great time playing this game
The enemy wanted to capture "Midway" just to have its bar with alcoholic drinks ...
That is why our heroes were trying hard to empty the reserve, before falling into enemy's hands ...
And at the very end "why aren't you joining the party on the flight deck?" Um, because I'm next to the free bar, and for some reason, absolutely none of the hundreds working there are taking advantage of it.
Regardless, this video game was epic, I'm watching this back 20 years after playing it and I had a huge grin on my face for about 3 hours.
Also, Blair got a better death scene than Luke Skywalker, let that one sink in.
41:46 - I had a good chuckle seeing that ship bounce off the carrier.
Old Sci fi fan, I enjoyed that. Thanks
Still better than the Last Jedi.
thats hilarious
And they accomplished it with Pac Man technology. May the Atari force be with you.
Great editing job... i know first hand how hard it is on these long FMV games...trying to put it together trying to make it all make sense takes ages great job!!!!
I especially liked the flyby shots of the Midway. Inspired by scenes from Star Trek I think?
One damn cute little redhead. But I hated how this game ended.
I am jealous! This really cool movie has been out for how long and I have missed it? I am really Glad I watched this movie.Very good Movie. I was really captivated . Movies like that need more money for better graphics . Given what it is I enjoyed the movie. Thank you ! Someone worked really hard.
The graphics were as good as a PC could manage at the time.
I used to watch my dad play this when I was 6 or 7 years old back in the day. I would say, "Hey! Thats the same guy who did Luke Skywalker". Then would be so upset watching him die in this game. I wish he would have survived since he was in most of the games.
I wish they would bring back the wing commander game back.
Hehehe🤫 I'm making a game under construction that iv been working on 4 2yrs, it's gonna be bigger than Bethesda, so wait for it to come to life
maybe
Oh and Hawk back from the dead 34:47
The sudden pick up and usage of the plasma weapon was a bit crude because I remember there being a few missions in between. There should have also been a mission where ship-killer missiles were on the way to the Midway because it gave me a lot of trouble as a kid, as well as a mission against a large station controlled by the bugs; and not the one where Blair is kidnapped. Other than parts cut out from both part 1 and 2, this was really fun to watch again after so many years.
a lot of missions really. for example the one with the huge antenna and the trap with TCS Eisen on the other side of jump point sending the whole Wolfpack squadron through.
I know what you mean and it's still fun and i believe I've got your back out there at one time.i think you were my wing commander it's good you are still fyi ing out there say just for old times lets do this a again some time s by the way my call sign is black cat.
Not bad, well it had to be good to keep my old head interested.
41:47 lol, anyone noticed that little ship getting pushed by the midway? Didn't expect that one xDDD
watching this made me an alcoholic
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I think you played it well, even though you think you suck at video games :D
Skywalker... errmm I mean Blair.. could have used some Clone Commandos to help clear out those bugs!
For bugs you need the Roughnecks.
Caveman:"there is a whole lot of bad guys around"
I got to find a video where the player actually taunts the enemy which was one of my favorite parts of the game
"Yeah, the taunting was a fun part!
'Prepare to be tested!".... - "Test this, Insect!"
My god I loved the wing commander series. It told a great story and had branching paths that actually seemed to have effect on the world around you. I really wish they made a new one. The last good space sim i can think of would be freelancer but that was back in 2003. I've got everspace but it doesn't do it for me. Anyone have any suggestions?
Chris is making the spiritual sequel right now. Squadron 42
The ending/last mission reminds me of "Babylon 5 - Thirdspace".
I wonder what all the ships and space craft would look like with modern graphics?
star citizen
Blair survive if his bio is to be believed . He come back to confed when he was very old but by that time confed have already lose their war with the pilgrim.
Great movie. Never saw that one before.
Thank you
7:24 Casey.....dude that was a dangerous dangerous thing to say to Hawk...
They have some serious problems with alcohol
Yeah. They drank a lot. But they were pilots. And no one seemed to be having any sex. So booze it is.
Ginger Lynn is in your movie and there's no sex? Seems like a waste.
Where oh where is radio Rollins where is
Flint where is the Mexican dude
yes , and there is not even a russian inboard ...!!! lol
lol,have you ever served in the forces,most of us all end up drinking heavy,its part of the return to normal life if you can call it that,
This is better than star crapizen will ever be. lol
Blair goes out like a chump just like Luke.
The game wasn't the same once the Kilrathi were not the main antagonists! WC4 held its own as they had a great story about Tolwyn being completely corrupted after being so exposed so long in warfare. This just didn't do so well
And the expansion missions were also very entertaining.
don't spaceships in the future have ceiling lights?
the campain is much longer if you fail on purpose in some fights.
and a plot fail at 34:47 Hawk shouldnt be there behind Maniac :p
Not sure if "lets use the same bit of footage for the 8th time" counts as a plot hole.
thanks brother LLNP
Using humans for study, sounds familiar.
With all the booze they are drinking...I'm surprise they can fly in a straight line!!! Unless it's a new avoidance missile technik!
Yeah man, I think I see a way that they could win the war easier. Just take away the booze. These pilots are sauced the whole time.
The rooster has flown the coupe. I repeat the rooster has flown the coupe.
Fitting end to the saga. Never had a chance to play it but it looks fun.
This was supposed to be a trilogy, so I'm not sure what you mean.
@@Pwnstared Meaning I've seen each of them now.
Getting really tired of that slow fighter launch. I hope that have a bunch of launch bays.
Despite the speedboost it gives, its not very practical for a Super-Carrier imo. How does such a vessel ever prepare a Magnum-Launch? They cna only launch 2 vessel at a time. Ok they can probably detect incoming enemy's from a long distance, but still...
Wing Commander: Prophecy is like Disney Star Wars. As far as I'm concerned it should be forgotten.
i agree...Wing Commander saga end with III...maybe IV too...but prophecy NO NEED!
Dam Good Show. 1 And 2 .
Good concept, however, this videogame flight stuff is lacking!
I would love to play this game again
One superweapon to end all Kilrathi, an open door
TCS Midway's BFG 9000/10000/Beam/Super Blaster/Super Beam And most Important Yamato (BBY-01)'s Wave motion gun aka the Japanese BFG 9000/10000/Beam/Super Blaster/Super Beam
Nice Marty Stu story (not really). Only thing that saved it was the eminently bangable Heather Stephens.
Good work here. Thanks to you I was able to watch this without playing it.
So this is what fans say where Freespace 2 "plagiarized" from. I kinda see how they got to that thought, it's incredibly silly though.
Freespace (Freespace 1, more like) may have plagiarized WC5, but what is important, Freespace did not suck, much unlike WC 5.
Hmmm...really; I just realized that WC5 came out before FS1. In my mind I always thought the Freespace plotline came out first. I certainly remember playing FS1 before Prophecy. Maybe like you said, FS didn't suck...anyway, Prophecy was OK.
@@SuperFatR Prophecy was great, I do not understand why hipsters have always felt the need to shit on it.
@@Zandohaha Maybe because they played it and saw it for what it is? The game part was braindead easy (you only could not win the mission where you were supposed to place the beacon for your super cannon by killing the entire enemy fleet yourself because the game had no cutscene for that) and failed to provide spectacle that hardware already allowed, the movie part failed to establish the bugs as a credible threat.
WC was the best series ever so why did they never make a 6
The dumbest fighter launch system from the Midway ever devised for a S.F. movie.
Loved the game hated the fact they killed off Blair who was my favorite in this series...they should have given him a better end honestly...all in all great game.
+Kat Deschamps FFS thanks for that spoiler.
Dude, seriously, do you seriously believe that 100% of the viewers have played this game and know the ending?
Blair is considered KIA from the end of wc5....Regardless of possibilities
Doug Stokes . I guess Blair and his mechanic Rachel didn't stay together. They looked so happy together at the end of my playthrough of WC3. Also kind of a anticlimactic ending.
The novelisation of WC4 explains that Rachel left Blair due to him becoming an alcoholic after the destruction of Kilrah.
I hated this game because they took out all the interactivity of the protagonist, you where just along for the ride.
Also they completely removed all the cool ships from WC4 and replaced them with horrible ships and a boring enemy.
A year later Freespace was released and they did a so much better job of it !
Prophecy was fun, but nowhere near as good as 3 or 4 were. And yeah, Freespace and especially Freespace 2 were phenomenally good games.
well, for this game the new studio already drove out the designer, and then for freespace the designer had a new studio (MS) but no more the whole universe/story rights.
so we got two games that could have been masterpieces but got crippled due to corporate interests.
I have now watched both parts 1 & 2 now. The storyline and internal scenes were very good. However from the launch sequences through the battle scenes are very clearly game console CGI. And not good CGI at that. That all needs be reworked heavily.
If only we could get a sequel done today.. ohh wait a min.. SQ42 (that will never release) .
They probably just need another 500 million dollars to finish it.
What a WEAK ending for Blair
Nothing like watching a video game
Hey, why here isn't subtitles?
22:40 it's BIFF TANNEN!
Maniac !
I wish psr 4 would make this game is the best i ever play
After playing (sort of) as Blair for the last 4 games, I wish they never bring him back on this one and instead let him finally have his peace elsewhere; I do not like how the story treated him after all that he's been through; and never quite explain what is the problem between Blair and that bossy "commander air group"
What a fantastic story. Now, what's next??
The company went bankrupt after this. No more story.
Good sci fi space movie
seems like some one has read Albert G.'s fan fiction crossover with Babylon 5 and star trek t,n,g, .lifted the sinhedrea aliens right out of his copyrighted story.
Am I correct in assuming that you are talking about this story that was published in 2003?
www.fanfiction.net/s/1580711/1/Those-Who-Stand
YES. He and his group are really pretty good writers, The story is still going also.
Good, because i would then say that Albert G is the one lifting copyrighted material not the other way around as you proclaim in your original statement. Unless Albert G wrote his story long before Prophecy released in November of 1997. Also, if you are talking about the Babylon 5 Third Space Aliens from the Made for TV move, Babylon 5: Third Space, then JMS stole the Third space aliens from Prophecy since Third Space was release in 1998, a year AFTER the release of Prophecy.
And you do know that this is a compilation of all of the cut scenes and some important game play from a PC Game right? The wording of your original post makes it sound like this is something that a individual did in their spare time.
Thirdspace was actually filmed in late 1997, but didn't air until 98, so it's unlikely JMS copied anything from WCP.
This game made me realize how great of an actor Malcolm McDowell is. He made WC4 amazing. This game was a bad script with terrible acting outside of a few good performances
Where did u get high quality cutscenes.
They released a DVD of the cut scenes.
Is this before or after wc4?
After.
Awesome game/series.
LOL I can never complete a mission. My pc was crap back then and them Kilrathis always killed me.
There was an in built invulnerability cheat in the game, has been since Wing Commander 2.
What happen to Blair (Mark Hamill)?? This has a new trilogy but origin failed and the game end here :(
Man i just wish they let you play this game as blair aswell. Afhter 4 games you think he deserved mario status. But i gues filming mark Hammil less was more cost effiecient
I have a 1000k of catnip.
9:15 they predicted the future wooooooooooo
Lets get to it PEOPLE
The big top is one big impersonation.
Could have been a great movie if the spent more then $2 on special effects.
Wow, this is really bad. No one wonder everyone say this game was shit! But by the time it came out, nearly every gaming studio had an Alien Attack stick up their ass. It was either aliens or zombies, or demons. I read articles claiming that PC gaming was dead in favor of consoles. (Remember that argument? HAH!!)
This was really hard to watch. I would have stopped playing after a several missions, it is so boring and stupid. To me.
I really loved the Wing Commander series. Wondering now about this "new" game, if it comes.
On the contrary. One of the best space fighting games of the time.
"Experiencing Interruptions? Find out why." Guess what. I clicked to "Find out why" but all I got was a Gloogle lollipop (I despise Gloogle!) and no why. The big guy with his high rank and credentials walks over to the lower ranked female and puts his large paw on her shoulder. Then no big deal. Today he gets sued for sexual harassment.
Personally I don't care for the people game movie, it's better to me for a more vr type interaction
thow did you get resolution!?
There was a DVD version.
@@theharper1 he's also upscaling
@@Pwnstared OK I was just mentioning the DVD source, which was a lot better than the default game.
To me this game was a dissapointment story wise, but then I played Freespace the Great War and I felt that game is what WC5 should have been. Better at almost everything.
Tiger Claw!
Why is Luke Skywalker in Wing Commander?
lets jumb with drinking
and the ship goes down the hole...again. How many times do we need to see a ship moved into launch position to understand that's how it happens? Bad storytelling...but better than The Force Awakens.
Bitch please, just cos for some unknown reason it's "cool" to hate Disney.
The HUD in this game is crap. What no defensive or offensive weapons on Carrier? Launch time is too damn slow.
Destroyd Void
War and alcohol. you need pain killer and a way to forget. So you stay drunk all the time.
TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT VIDEO GAME THE FIGHT SCENS ARE FROM ANY IDEAS
The gaming aspect killed the film. Every time i was trying to understand what it is they were showing us. Would have preferred real special effects.
I agree one hundred percent.
The gaming aspect of this video destroyed the reality SEMBLANCE of a space battle.
Good story and good characters. However the use of the Game Graphics, not so much.
I totally agree. Movie would have been much better without the game grafics
what happens when you shoot the cats at 5:00 ?
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I Am Destroyed!
Midway is terrible name for aircraft carrier. 10 of the 11 carriers involved got sunk. It wasn’t a good battle for anyone. We didn’t shoot down their fighters, only carriers, our planes got massacred in the air. Only possible type come out on top was submarine, both sinking carrier and picking up survivors.
Kinda like naming a fort ‘Alamo’ again. Lol.