Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger
Orchestral music swells as we are presented with the game’s title (accompanied by a tiger’s roar) and… actor credits!? Big names too, including Tom Wilson, Malcolm McDowell, and none other than Star Wars’s Mark Hamill as the star. Before long, a giant ship emerges from a jump point. With pointed, asymmetrical edges, it’s not unlike a giant mechanical claw, and it enters orbit over the homeworld of the Kilrathi Empire: Kilrah. A Confed commando team has been captured in the Kilrathi capital, led by none other than your beloved Jeannette “Angel” Devereaux. Brought before Prince Thrakhath and the Kilrathi Emperor himself, she remains defiant. On the planet Vespus, Col. Christopher Blair (that’s you!), examines the wreck of the TCS Concordia alongside James “Paladin” Taggart. You have once more lost the carrier you called home, and there is no news of Angel’s whereabouts. Admiral Tolwyn reassigns you to the TCS Victory, an old rust bucket quite unlike the top-of-the-line Concordia. On the way over, a news broadcast states that despite Confed’s statements to the contrary, the war is going badly for humanity, with rumors of a plan for an emergency evacuation of Earth. But your assignment to the Victory will prove to be much more fateful than you initially thought…
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