To balance out the Gamesmaster review from a couple of days back, here is a much more favourable write-up on Wing Commander 2 from the December 1991 PC Plus:-
Wing Commander 2 Review – PC Plus
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Wing Commander 2 Review – Gamesmaster
This is a 30 second review of Wing Commander 2 from the first series of Gamesmaster. Gamesmaster was a video games program that ran on Channel 4 in the UK for 7 seasons. It focussed on games-playing challenges but had a short reviews section with 3 games a week for various platforms. You couldn’t take the reviews too seriously and Wing Commander 2 doesn’t get treated very fairly here. I’d already bought the game at this point, so I’m glad to say I knew better.
I’ve been watching a few of these shows recently. I’m sure I remember a feature on the filming of Privateer 2 at some point which I’ll post if I find it.
Wing Commander Review – PC Plus
This is a review of Wing Commander from the February 1991 PC Plus. This is another review I remember from the time and another game I’d love to have been able to play back then, but I was still stuck in the dark ages still on a CGA only PC. The screenshot was what sold it for me, but I’d swear the real game doesn’t look quite as good as that.
Ultima 6 Review – PC Plus
This is another review of Ultima 6, this time from the July 1990 PC Plus. I actually remember reading this at the time and wanting to buy the game. Unfortunately, I only had an 8088 PC with CGA which ruled it out and I didn’t play my first Ultima until Underworld came out 2 years later.
Omega Review – PC Plus
This is a review of Omega from the February 1990 PC Plus magazine. The reviewer was positive about the game in general but must have been something of a pacifist as he didn’t like the warmongering concept.
While I’m on Omega, I’ve uploaded a scan of the lengthy Cybertank Engineer’s Handbook from the game. I scanned this for replacementdocs years back but couldn’t do a decent job without a book scanner. By the time they had compressed it down, it was more or less illegible. The new scan is much improved and in the downloads for anyone who wants it.
I should also mention the sell off of Origin bits and pieces that Rhea Shelly (ex Origin QA) is having as posted on wcnews.com. There isn’t anything on there I wouldn’t want in all honesty, although I’ll be confining my bids to a select few items to give myself a slim chance of actually winning something. I was hoping to see Caverns Of Callisto among all those early games but no such luck.