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Wing Commander IV: the Price of Freedom DVD Interactive

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Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom is a mix of interactive movie and space sim. The game has a dynamic mission tree, which means the player's behaviour will determine the next mission. The videos feature real actors, like Mark Hamill, Tom Wilson, John Rhys-Davies and Malcolm McDowell. Before the start of each mission, the space craft can be equipped with different weapons. Sometimes the mission objectives change during flight, and the player has to make decisions what he wants to do next: e.g. help out his friend or destroy an enemy fighter.

This game was originally released on 6 CD-ROMs. It was then later re-released on DVD-ROM. There were 2 versions of DVD-ROM; a single-sided DVD version which simply repackaged the game's original content and a high quality double-sided DVD edition (Version 2.0) which re-encoded the video to MPEG2 DVD-quality.

First off, I'm a BIG wing commander fan. I have several 386 and 486 class computers just for being able to play wing commander, the entire series of games. This DVD version of the game is an incredible improvement over the CD version of the game. In the CD version all the movies are interlaced. In this version of the DVD version (there are two different DVD versions) all of the movies are NON-Interlaced. I have played this DVD version of the game on windows XP with a 2 ghz cpu, and surround sound sound card. It plays great. It required patches to run on XP. You can download the patch from [...] They also have fourms to help you if required. This is an excellent game and a nice enhancment over the CD version of the game. You can easily just play all the movies back to back from the DVD version just to make sure you haven't missed any during normal game play.