Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger

Mark Hamill on four CDs: the moment production value became a permanent expectation.

Released 1994 Developer Origin Systems Platform MS-DOS Genre Space combat sim Era The 3D rupture Website origin.ea.com ↗

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Narrative · 1994

Full Voice Performance

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Mechanics it built on

Ideas Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

In-Engine Cutscene ~~1984~~Branching Dialogue Trees ~~1985~~Full-Motion Video ~~1992~~

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Wing Commander ~~1990~~

1990

Wing Commander: The Secret Missions ~~1990~~

1994

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