[spartan_0214]

Freelancer....

[Tolwyn]

Freelancer....

that's not exactly Wing Commander 

[Mustang19]

But it is "other". What's that supposed to mean, anyway?

I haven't played ANY wing commander, so I can't comment. Actually, I played the WC3 demo, but that's about it. The only thing I noticed was that your wingmen take forever to die or to kill the enemy.

[Tolwyn]

But it is "other". What's that supposed to mean, anyway?

Other such as: Secret Ops, Armada, Academy, Privateer.

[Drakon]

WC3 and 4 were great. I lean more towards the former though. Hehehe, I was young when I got it and it had been my first computer game. Took me 4 years to stop playing it and that was just because I had switched from Mac to Windows. ^^ I haven't played WC3 in three years now yet I still have a quarter of the briefings memorized from shear repitition. As for Freelancer, I've been playing that since Origin ran aground because I couldn't imagine someone else having such skill to pick up the torch and ressurect their classics. xD

[Faldaar]

All WC games are great. I don't know how often I played 1 & 2 with all these add ons until 3 was released. And after finishing it I couldn't await WC4 and so on....
1 & 2 had a great gameplay and I allways wanted to better than I was last time I played the game.
3 and 4 had those cinematic story parts what i really loved. Well I didn't realy like the end of part 3, but Rachel.... Part 4 had this nice stealth ship and one could go against Tolwyn
WC 5, well I didn't like to be not Blair and the story of the former parts was a bit better too.
Secret Ops was a nice free "add-on" that I also played multiple times, but the story was a bit.... weak.

Of course I also played Privateer 1&2. From these 2 i preferred the 2nd part, duno exactly why, it just "felt" better.

So deciding for 1 favorite: WC 3, a little bit before 4.

Faldaar

[Kamikadze]

Wing Commander 4 is a best! Interesting story line + very good simulator part.