Typical, isn't it? You wait ages for new information on a Chris Roberts-directed space combat sim, and then two lots come along at once. Less than 24 hours after Cloud Imperium Games surprise-released a glossy trailer for Star Citizen's single-player spinoff Squadron 42, it now appears that Roberts' 1994 classic Wing Commander 3 is getting a remaster courtesy of EA.
The project is headed up by EA producer Jim Vessella, who revealed the remaster during a presentation at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. The remaster will include cutscenes based on Wing Commander 3's original FMV recordings, after Vessella discovered 600 source tapes while digitising EA's video archive.
In a post on Bluesky, Steve Lin, a board member of the Video Game History Foundation, shared an image of Vessella's talk, which shows a projector slide detailing the remaster's features. The remaster is called Wing Commander 3: Heart of the Tiger—30th anniversary edition. A slightly unfortunate name, given Wing Commander 3's was released 32 years ago.
As for those features, the slide says the remaster will include both source and upscaled versions of the game's FMVs, and will include "Kilrathi Saga integration"—which presumably means it will bundle in Wing Commanders 1 & 2 and their various expansion packs. The remaster will also run at 60 FPS and—in additional details shared by Lin—will feature controller support and will be released on Steam, GOG, and the EA app.
Re-release of Wing Commander III coming out with video taken from the original tapes courtesy of a restoration project led by Jim Vessella who has been digitizing the EA video archive
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