Wing Commander 3: Heart of the Tiger | Movie - WIP-v1 | HD 60fps | English | remastered with AI
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- This is the Full-Movie WIP-Version 1 (Work In Progress) from the game "Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger", which I upscaled from 320x160p15 to HD with 60fps using artificial intelligence. This version is not yet final.
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A first preview of WIP-version 2 is here:
• Wing Commander 3 - Mov...
I miss those days when Chris Roberts still made games that actually came out.
Because he had bosses that rode herd on his ass and didn't let him procrastinate for 20 years. Chris Roberts without someone giving him a deadline: Star Citizen and Squadron 42. Which are both a money scams until full gold release.
@@aliensounddigital8729 Star Citizen is just an extremely large project. No wonder this takes years.
@@aliensounddigital8729 I think I bought the games back in 2014 or 2015.
This makes me go back to the days when game cutscenes were not CGI but full production movie cuts with real actors. Wow I miss those games.
this isnt full production, just alot of CGI backgrounds, WC4 was a full production with props and everything
There a few games that still do this but it seems not as enough and I guess some don't like it.
@@rickythemaddragonxiong8757maybe they should do it now and then
@@mixmaster3028 Last time I saw it was....in Red Alert 3?
I played the first Wing Commander on a 386SX 32 years ago. This is a beautiful stroll down the memory lane. Thank you!
Same here man with a SVGA And I believe a GeForce with 8 megs of ram lol....
In my case I never played it, I remember it seeing those games in stores but I don't know why I passed, because I love the genre. It happened to me with other great games, I had the Sega Megadrive, but after that I went back to PC
Wing 1 on a 486 dx2 66 with a et4000 eisa card sb 2 sound we can get nostalgic about our old dos this was a great series and the privateer games, and many new motherboards and graphics and CPU upgrades well into Pentium when 3 and then 4 came along.
@@brybish word
Back then I played WC3 on my old 486DX 33 MHz. It only had an ISA VGA graphics card, so it stuttered a lot. It was OK in space, but the last missions on the planet stuttered at around 3 fps. So I had hardly any control in these last planetary missions, but I still played through the game until the credits rolled.
When it's upscaled like this, it feels like I'm watching Babylon 5 lmao
This game was my first exposure to Malcolm Mcdowell and he became one of my favourite actors after this and WC 4, seriously underrated and plays the roles he gets so well
A Clockwork Orange
It's a little embarrassing to remember how much I absolutely loved this game back in the 90's. Thanks!
Why be embarrassed? It was a great game for the time, I loved the whole series.
Not embarrasing at all.
in my opinion those kilrathi costumes still hold up quite well. especially their facial expressions.
Yes! I love Wing Commander! My dad used to play that game in the 90's.
When Chris Roberts releases his CGI Star Citizen movie instead of ripping people off for an "alpha" game, we might see something...
I grew up playing this game. I'm reliving my childhood watching this. Those were the days, when everything seemed so simple.
This was one of my favorite games...ever. To think this was so cutting edge back int he 90s. Wish the series had more life in it. Someone has to bring it back.
Squadron42 project by Chris Roberts is the spiritual successor to this. It’s in polish phase so will likely be out in 2025
@@Ian-MT wanna bet? I've been hearing "It's almost ready" for 10 years.
I seriously cannot believe how much better these cutscenes now look. Even all those greenscreened backdrops look considerably better.
I seriously cannot believe you really like these washed out out of focus cutscenes. Even the writing is like watercolor. This looks horrible. I see no improvement over the grainy original.
@andreaso8886 You obviously have never seen the 320x200 pixel 256 color original DOS game. It is not realistic to expect perfect results from that kind of source material.
@@Retep4565 I have. But you don't seem to played it back 94. And it still looks better than this. I still own it.
@@andreaso8886 Actually I did play it back then, I still have the box with the CD-ROM. Back in the day having full motion video cut scenes in a DOS game with known actors was quite something, but even compared to VHS the image quality was very poor.
@@Retep4565 It was/is. I own the box too😁. But I still find that flawed version better than this. I can see the Dralthis circleling the chamber in the game, recognizing their silhouettes. Here I only see shapeless smudges. But if you enjoy this more to you. It is simply my opinion that this is trash.
I remember playing Wing Commander 3 on the Panasonic 3DO in the mid-90s, but seeing the cinematics in this upscaled format, it feels like this could have been right at home in the after school TV line up alongside Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, VR Troopers, and Captain Power.
The 3DO version was where I first played WC3 too. If you care to give the PC version a go it allows you to play those interplanetary missions instead of watching a cutscene.
I'm damn near 51 years old and I still occasionally play a ps1 version of this on my old ps2!
i was so addicted playing this game on my panasonic 3DO console all my m8s came round to play it with me it was an amazing game they don't make games like this anymore this was a game ahead of its time with all movie cut scenes
Maniac, re Hobbes: "You can't trust aomeone who'd kill their own kind." Still the wildest thing he's ever said. The fuck did he think humans were doing before the Kilrathi?
Well the war was going on for over 30 years so the concept was new to him i guess
This is nothing less than magic. Thank you for doing this.
Thanks for this, really enjoyed it. Cannot believe it’s approaching thirty years since I played this game. PC games just seemed so much more magical back then.
This looks absolutely amazing!! I've played this game since it was released.
I absolutely loved this game when I played it in the 90s. I'm sure to get flak from this but I think I may have enjoyed Mark Hamill more in this movie than I did in Star Wars. You know you love something when you do a skipper missile mission 50 billion times just so you can progress the story :)
Same for me, I think it's because his acting range really got better as he got older and got more experience. He really puts feeling into these cutscenes compared to the straight rehearsal from Star Wars (which also suffered dodgy dialogue from the get-go).
Back in it's day, Wing Commander was the best game ever!! Thank you for brining back some truly great memories!
Tie Fighter was better.
@@OpenGL4ever Tie Fighter came out in 1994. The original Wing Commander came out in 1990.
@@DanakarEndeel I know that. But the video is about Wing Commander 3, which was released in 1994.
Legit think that Blair was a better role for Mark Hamill than Skywalker was. He's fantastic in this.
You're not the only one 😉
When I first played this on release I was absolutely blown away..... it was like playing in a movie!!!
This is incredible! Really takes ke back, what a great story and this upscale does it justice!
Ahh, the game from my youth. It brings with it such memories, both sweet and bitter.
I love this so much. The sounds and the looks of this game brings back my teenage self purring like a kilrathi
Excellent job I've not played this in decades. Great to be able to watch it as a movie. Thank you
Looking at the cast list is simply amazing when you think of the incredible movies many of them were a part of.
Legends say Cobra is still sharpening that knife to this day.
B.J. Jefferson disappeared after doing this.
Hobbes killed her.
Far better than the Wing Commander movie.
With the upscale you can see Hobbes's body language and facial expression when he gets activated...
"Disintegration is not for you!" - I don't know why but that line has stuck in my mind for all these years.
Almost thirty years later, this still seems to me to be one of the best openings in video games. And it's great when you finish the game and see it again how every part of the various performances and dialogue aren't just there by chance, but indicated a lot more than it seemed.
Wing Commander was among my most favorite games back in the day. Turrican was another game that I absolutely loved playing. :)
You are a man (or woman) of class and sophistication.
Thank you for this collage in the name of all of us who didn't or couldn't play this game back in the day, but were/are still interested in the lore!
Fantastic game! Thanks for uploading this gem from my past!
Edit: I like the choices you made for the best story
thank you so much this game is pure nostalgia i love this game so much in the past .
This is one of my all time favorite games i played , awesome job and thanks .
Agreed. I remember playing this on my first PC, a Pentium 75 if I remember correctly. Good days.
Loved this game....play it for HOURS to the end...then started over again.... even created a WC tshirt that I wore for YEARS!!!!...
Funny how the A.I did an amzing job on the faces and framerate. It can't do text to save itself.
I love this whole video.
I had to laugh at this, because my thought went to the immediate reality: "Well, people can hardly do that text thing, either." So, AI is us, lol.
So many great memories from my childhood. I can still recall watching these scenes on my Pentium PC. The story and character development in WC 3 and 4 are better than many current movies. I enjoy watching this more than Star Wars sequel trilogy.
It has been a while since I played this game. Like this idea of a movie to watch.
It is awesome, all right. I still have my original Wing Commander with the add-on packs, all the great art, amazing instruction booklet. And old floppy disks. Oh, those were the days.
you did a really good job on this.. this is one of those games I wish they would remaster and release again using the new game engines, it would be phenomenal
Agreed 1000% agreed!
They HAVE remastered it...
STAR CITIZEN
Thank you for this, I got to relive playing it with friends who are no longer here. Hobs betrayal was the 1st true twist i can remember in a video game
Amazing work. Was a great watch. I can remember almost to the mission where I'm sure I got a glitch or bug and couldn't progress the story, just before the T-Bomb was actually built haha.
I had same glitch, they sent me a new disk set and a dvd: The making of wing commander.
I loved this game, loved the whole series. Thanks for the memories 👍
I looked at how the videos used to look and compared them to this version. I'm really impressed with the up in quality! I don't know how it does it.
Funny as heck when "Luke" salutes like a Cub-Scout 👍👍⭐💝
Ginger Lynn Allen signed on to portray a tech...NICE!
I wanted this game so hard! But it was never in my hands and now I am a busy man. Thank you for uploading this vide😂o. The quality is awesome!
Thanks for remastering it! Going to share with my brother.
This is so awesome. Thank you for doing this!
This is brilliant. I have enjoyed all of the earlier movie versions but the low quality video has always been a disappointment. What you have done here is awesome. Thank you!!! 🙂
Now for THIS right here is why A.I. exists…😨🙌🏻
Wow, this is great high definition work! Great job. Watching this gets my mouth watering to play Squadron 42
Ahead of its time. I loved this game. So many younger and familiar faces, too. And the puppetry was spectacular.
i used to do this game with my father. A big thanks for this trip to memory lane !
Watching this makes me super excited for Squadron 42 man
Thank you for the quality. I would give you few bucks if I could.
One of the reasons why Chris Roberts wanted to start making movies is due to this I reckon. Then he made the movie Wing Commander (1999) with Freddie Prinze Jr which in my opinion was worse than this!
Recently rewatched that one and yes, it wasn't great but it had its moments.
The movie failed to use the wonderful music from the game, that didn't help
DAMN RIGHT DUDE THAT 'MOVIE Was crap !!
The novelization of the movie is better than the movie because it has all of the B plot that was cut from the movie...
Movies will never be as good as books but the wing commander was pretty good,the trick is going in without expectations
Holy Luke Sky Walker, wish the made the star wars EU sequels.
I think you did a very good job as it is now, i played this game alot too when it came out, love this game, i even have the CD and the box still
GREAT SHOT COLONEL THAT WAS ONE IN A MILLION!!
I have not played this on my 3D0 console videogame system in so long that I cannot say how the play there was. Something I loved about that version is that I could turn on an invulnerable mode and get the chance to see the whole story, even if I was not always good enough to play through every mission.
This game brings back the memories.
really like the movie this made into. I've played every wing commander except prophecy. really liked that they had some stars play major roles in 3 - 5.
Such a joy to relive this
thanks
Oh man I remember playing this till the wee hours of the morning just to see the next cut scene!!!
Remember that ending and the giant Kilrathi ship capturing you. Looked so impressive then on the monitor.
It would be cool to redo this again with the avanced upscaling we have just one year latter. The faces wouldn't look so bad today if you re did this.
Unfortunately, the current version of Topaz 4.x doesn't produce quite as detailed images as the older versions, and the face refinement in the latest version is blured and not as good as Gigapixel. I am constantly testing.
Super génial! Merci beaucoup cela me rappelle beaucoup de souvenirs.
This was one of my all time favorite game series. I remember that talking about this being the future of gaming, and even entertainment in general. A lot of well-known actors were here. Unfortunately, this type is very expensive to make.
But it wasn't long before CGI caught up and live-action was too expensive to justify. Now we have CGI with voice-only actors. That works too, since CGI can create a wider range of "alien" forms while still having human-like voices.
Everything in WC3 was shot in front of a green screen, so apart from a few objects such as the ladder and the lockers, only the actors were filmed, the rest was created as CGI graphics. Studio sets were only used in WC4. The reason why computer graphics are used today is because they require less memory, they fit better into the game world in terms of atmosphere and because you have more control over what is shown and can depict worlds that you could hardly depict in real life.
Glorious times when I played wing comander 1 - 3
all upscaled looks more 80's Doctor Who then 90's either way i love it
I really wish they brought back Malcolm McDowell for Star Citizen, he plays the bad guy so well
Great remaster too
You got Gary Oldman for Squadron 42.
@@Cerby1979 he's not the bad guy though. I'd want Malcom
@@tbone9474 He said he's a little tired of being villainous or sketchy characters. That's why he's playing a sweet but gruff Grandfather on "Son of a Critch" now.
@ShadowSonic2 well he has nothing to prove, to act like a convincing villain is very hard
I rented this on the playstation, back when lol, you could rent physical copies of video games. My mind was blown jumping from 16 bit video games to a well produced, well acted interactive movie which was so popular at the time (The Xfiles game is another great example). Seeing it again, upscaled is a real treat. Thank you for this. Edit: I like that you kept in the establishing shots of Blair transitioning from one place to another. Could use a little bit of brief gameplay footage to show how battles are won.
WC3 is their first PC game that used these cut scenes. The first two was really old animated PC game and you had to deal with which version of DOS you had on your PC.
@@drmayeda1930 First experience was WC1 on the SNES.
Dam, i loved this game soooo much. thank you for the nostalgia injection.
Thank you for making this!
Star studded cast, and it has a story. But I hate that they chose to kill off and destroy the old characters like this. Thanks for posting the video and making the effort to try and improve the visual quality.
The killing off has always been a thing. Spirit died off camera in one of the Secret Mission packs, etc. Although I don't think the casting for Maniac was a good fit in this one. There's very little resemblance both in looks and character.
Got this for my 12th birthday... was so gutted at the loss of Angel and the betrayal of Hobbes.
This is actually better than a lot of MOVIES. I am 60. I got a computer in 1996 and WC 4 was my first game. Then the Star Trek games. The video is great RIP Jason Bernard and John Schuck
Schuck still alive at 83
He was great in Star Trek@@rpscorp9457
Wtf look at the cast!!! I never knew!
They still don't understand Newtonian physics and spaceflight. The George Lucas school of atmospheric mechanics in space...
I never realized all the details I missed back in the day. Amazing work
Flying the Excalibur in those last few missions were quite possibly my finest hour in a spaceship fighting game. Might say more about the controls of the other ships than the Excalibur, but still. :) it was a dream to fly. :)
Thanks for working on WC3, as it was such an iconic game, from a time when Origin and Chris Roberts hit homeruns with ones like this. Can't say modern games are as intricate in dialogue and planning as this one. Appreciate you going after Flint, although it's obvious you kept her off the flight rotation before she whined. Never did it that way. I personally think choosing Rachel was a bit more fun.
I think the Mass Effect series has a lot to owe to this franchise, even with that series being more about boots on the ground combat, the kernel of the theme of humans having to fight in the galaxy and interacting with you crew mates so much more of a story rather than just a simple coin op game where the objective is to kill the player fast enough they have to spend a bunch of quarters to get through the game fighting. When the 3D0 home video game system was no long the hot tech and PlayStation 1 took over the market, I purchased a used 3D0 for that I only saw a little bit about but was heavily intrigued by. I found a few other gems for that system also but while buying a high tech computer was beyond my ability with no job, justifying the used system is something I never regretted, I still own it!
I wonder why neither of them were in the actual Wing Commander movie.
This brought back allot of childhood memories.
Malcolm McDowell was in Hawaii doing the 1998 Fantasy Island show so he couldn't make it, Mark Hamill was in the movie as a VO cameo.
Even Pierre Chang from Lost was here.
awesome job, only criticism, some of the sequences are a bit laboured, can't wait to see the full version
Simply fantastic ! ! Sooo many thanks to you ! !
what an amazing game that was... wish they still made games like this!
I had soooo much fun playing this game as a kid... damn... :)
Thank's for this.
Ahh, fond memories. Loved these games.
Holy Sh*t! Some serious nostalgia there! Nice work!
If you are still working on this, I believe Roberts shot all of the live action on video for this one at 30 FPS. 4 was on 35mm film and would likely be at 24 fps. Keep up the good work!!
thx, you are right... my next version will be 30fps :)
This was quite an epic saga back in the day, long with Privateer 1 and 2. I still have the original cds and most of the cases/boxes.
I remember playing the hell out of these games on the 3do -----> Well Done !!
Just realize that Maverick is Luke Skywalker after all these years.
This is incredible, amazing!! Thank you!!! A 24fps version would be good though.
Thx. The next version will have 30fps, because the source material has 15 and WC3 was originally shot on video at 30fps
I think you are on to something here. With this new tech I bet you could take an old movie made from the 1920s and make it like it was shot yesterday at 60 FPS.
Oh the possibilities.