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It comes out, and isn't up to the snuff of WC3, or Privateer, or Prophecy, whatever game in the series you wish to point at, all of which are massive affairs with ridiculously deep-reaching single-player campaigns. We haven't had a solid space sim of old-school proportions since Freelancer, and that came out half a goddamned decade ago. It sucks, because it's a genre with a following that wants its goddamned Space Sims, but that's the way it is. Space Sims as a genre are pretty much dead to the world. The real reason is that Market Research is god with developers, proving once again that you can get paid a fortune for being mentally retarded (just ask Johnny Ebbert). Space Sims were 'too complicated' for the mouth-breathers (in spite of the fact that, Y'know, every Wing Commander game released on a console was a critical success, including Wing Commander 3 and 4 on PSX). The reason for this is diverse, but the biggest reason is that the almighty casualfag demographic has spoken. TIE Fighter or cut your teeth on the original Wing Commander, you need to accept the simple fact that this is a genre that isn't going to come back, no matter how popular and/or successful Freelancer was (and could have been were it not rushed to production). Whether you gained your wings on the likes of X-Wing vs. The Space Sim genre, as we oldschoolers knew it, is dead. Most of the time, this is only the bloviating stupid of a few malcontents.Īnd such is the case for Wing Commander Arena.īefore I continue, I want to make something abundantly clear to everyone - a sad truth, which no one wants to hear, but needs to be said irregardless. It's part of why there's so little innovation and even less desire to take risks anymore it's why we have people who bash Zelda 2, complain endlessly about Metroid Prime, did nothing but complain about how Advance Wars: Days of Ruin changed everything and now it sucks (to quote them), and so on. Many times, gamerdom is better-described as Gamer-dumb, getting vociferous over anything that might stray too far from the mainstream and familiar. Unfortunately, as most are only too aware, this is not always the case.

Sometimes, this goes more than fear being warranted and turns into a horror among horrors (see: Castlevania Judgment). Sometimes, this fear is warranted (see: DOW2). Make no mistake: Sometimes, these fears have logical basis in reality (see: Anything Sony Entertainment has ever worked on in the history of anything ever). But if there is anything that gets me riled up, it's misguided purityfags.Īnyone who has played a brilliant game that happens to be part of a series but breaks with tradition somehow has ran face-first into these individuals on at least one occasion, and their MO is invariably the same: 'This game is not like X, so it sucks.'

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Buying into the fuel tanker full of hype that is the Halo series is part of this, as is the act of ignoring quality games in favor of flash and polish (something which led to DOW2). Sometimes, I am deeply ashamed by my fellow gamers. With that foreword out of the way, let's move onto the review itself.

It's also an attempt to get more people to play and enjoy it. This review is partly an attempt to get you guys to try out this game, since it's on XBLA and you can try it for free.

Before I begin, I want to explain something.