This is another Prophecy review taken from the March 1998 PC Format and just like the previous one from a couple of posts back it scores a healthy 90% and is described as the best in the series so far. The movie concept art that was sent out by mistake with the press pack features especially heavily in this article:-
This is a brief Longbow 2 review from the March 1998 PC Home where this time it’s preferred to Novalogic’s Comanche 3:-
Despite the previous harsh review from PC Gamer, I remember Wing Commander Prophecy being generally very well received in the UK. PC Home has been proved to be more friendly to the series in the past having awarded Wing Commander 4 a mammoth 94% and this is the case again in this Prophecy review from March 1998:-
Since I forgot last time, happy new year! Now that Christmas is out of the way, I’ll see if I can’t get back to posting a little more often on here. I’m sure I still have at least another year of Origin blogging left in me and I’m not short of games to play on here. I think the main gaming focus this year is going to be Ultima ports and remakes as I have a stack of them lined up and it’s been too long since I played anything except the original trilogy.
In the meanwhile, I’m far too occupied with Rocksmith so I’ll carry on working through magazine articles. Next up is a review from the February 1998 PC Gamer of Wing Commander Prophecy. The review lives up the tagline and is yet another mauling of the series:-
Elsewhere on the Wing Commander front, I see I’ve been nominated for website of the year on the WC CIC which is something of a surprise, this not being an entirely Wing Commander site and all that. I did play Wing Commander 1 a ridiculous number of times last year mind you. If you feel inclined, pop over there and give me a helping hand toward the fame and glory that awaits the winner.
I’ve finally had a chance to look into the recent problems with the Ultima Patcher and they were indeed caused by the new versions of the GOG installers which now use two rather than one Dosbox config file. At the time of writing, all of the Ultima games on GOG are using version 2 installers except Ultima 7/Serpent Isle which will presumably follow shortly. Among other things, the new setup broke every patch that needed to change the Dosbox config which has now been fixed in version 1.5. This new version isn’t compatible with the original GOG releases when it comes to MT-32 emulation so I’ll leave version 1.42 up in case anyone still wants to use it with the older installers.
Other minor fixes include the correct filenames for the MT-32 ROM’s in the description text (underscores instead of dashes), and the patcher now looks in the new default install directories before asking for a game installation directory.