Video and screens of Wing Commander Arena

that looks WAY cool.

definetly a purchase. :D

A little disappointed actually. Give me a revamped original wing commander.

I'm a bit disappointed.

Maybe it's not all bad though, remember Armada on Dreamcast? If they add in that sort of single player action, it could easily be a buy.

Looks great. This is imo, what the classic games on XBLA should all do. No one wants to play the "exact" frogger game they played 20 years ago, but I re-envisioned version of frogger could be great.

Looks great. This is imo, what the classic games on XBLA should all do. No one wants to play the "exact" frogger game they played 20 years ago, but I re-envisioned version of frogger could be great.

I don't mind it "re-imagined" but I would like to see some of the gameplay elements that made the original fun there.

The original Wing Commander was a terrific arcade-sim that sat you in a cockpit. I was hoping for that over a 3rd person pure arcade space shooter.

Oh well...will be interesting to see how the Battlestar Galactica game will compare to this.

If its anything like Armada its a definate buy.
Subspace was fun too. I like these open ended games as long as you get good upgrades along the way. Seems perfect for XBLA.

I didn't realize the original was an in cockpit view, having never played it. I guess that is a big departure. Still looks fun though. Maybe they should call it asteroid.

Was looking forward to revisiting an old fav, but I guess Ill have to blow the dust off my ps2 to do that. I'll still try this version tho.

"Video after the jump?" "Even if it's 2D?"

Uh... editors... those are pictures, not video, and the action looks to be 3D to me. Actually, it looks a lot like WC:3 with the invisible cockpit view selected. I always used this view as I was able to see more of what was going on around me, especially when taking on cap ships and asteroid. Watching the little animated man move his control stick when I moved mine was cute and all, but not enough to make me want to sacrifice 30-35 percent of my forward view.

I think this game looks sweet, and as far as I am concerned ANY new WC game is a step in the right direction. I was missing the WC universe so bad the other day I climbed through storage boxes I haven't touched in years just to get my Super NES out so I could play Wing Commander again. I forgot how freaking hard a 2D sprite flight sim could be.

Check it again TheCash.

It's doing the planar equivalent of mode7 there. The 2d plane that you're fixed to is slanted upward in the distance, but you're stuck to it. All the bullets are travelling along it, all the asteroids.

IIRC Armada was straight up top down, which I would actually prefer to this view...I feel a bit of vertigo watching it.

Never played armada but this looks like subspace.

I think I'd get tired of constant deathmatching... I'd hope there was some missions/clan/co-op type gameplay

@Goodwin

thanks for bringing back those fun, frustrating memories of "Armada". Man, I'm missing that dreamcast now

Its definately 2D, which is entirley inexplicable. EA could have taken the Prophecy mechanics and figured out a way to convert to 360, and just slapped a multiplayer arena on and had a huge hit. Instead we are stuck with this mildly retarded version of Galaga. The entire premise of WC was reasonably realistic space mechanics. How could that possibly alienate new players?