Wing Commander 3 Review – CDROM Today

I’m probably not going to get started on the next WC novel until the weekend and will carry on with the magazine scans in the meanwhile. It’s been interesting reading some of this stuff for the first time in years, although I’ll have to go back and have a better look at some of the other content at some time. A few months back, I was tiring of doing this blog but I seem to have got my enthusiasm back again. It was probably the prospect of playing all those flight sims that was putting me off, and Super Wing Commander didn’t exactly live up to the name either. I’m even getting more hits on the site in recent weeks although believe me its still not that many. If I was doing this by public demand, I don’t think I’d have ever started.

The first article today is a review of Wing Commander 3 from January 1995’s CDROM Today.

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Quest For Clues 4

This is the 4th in the series of Quest For Clues books and was published by Origin in 1991. This doesn’t break the formula, and is the same as ever with solutions for 40 more games. There are only the 3 solutions for Origin games this time and no foreword whatsoever leaving me with nothing much to write about that I haven’t already said for the first 3 books. There are another 2 of these books left in the series, which I’m hoping will have a little more for me to work with.

The offer stands to scan in any of these solutions if anyone wants to see one of them, but I expect walkthroughs to most (if not all) of these games can be easily found on the internet. Some of the RPG’s covered are quite complex and the walkthroughs are brief considering this. With only a few pages per game, it’s very much a bare minimum to get you through but with so many games covered in each book it was potentially good value for money at the time. It just doesn’t make it of much interest as a collectible 20 years down the line, although I’m sure I’ll have made use of a solution or two in here over the years and may well use a few more of them when I get round to playing some of the other games I’ve amassed.