Even so, as I leave Wing Commander: Privateer behind me, I can’t help but feel that there are some genuine deficits that kept me from enjoying it as much as years of echoed acclaim had led me to believe I would.Ī big part of it was definitely the story, which is far less a part of the game than I would have liked. When you get right down to it, there’s just too much nostalgic bias on my part for me to see any other entry in the franchise as anything but subpar when compared to that classic of my childhood.

I don’t like Wing Commander: Privateer as much as I did Wing Commander 2. Released in 1993, Wing Commander: Privateer drops players into the shoes of a freelancing spacer trying to fly, fight and trade their way through a harsh universe full of hostile forces and violent aliens that you befriend or blow out of the sky.