Display MoreI was leafing through Strike Commander's wonderful manual, Sudden Death, the other afternoon and I noticed something I had never really thought about before: just after Chris Roberts' letter the booklet includes… an extensive bibliography? It was an era when serious flight simulators needed to prove their authenticity and one small way to support that was to show how serious the research the team had done was. And researching a video game IS serious business; I just wish the Wing Commander games had included this sort of thing!
A little more research revealed that Strike Commander wasn't the only Origin game with a bibliography. All five of the company's dedicated flight simulator had them in some way or another. I decided to transcribe them all into a single spreadsheet which you can access here. Now you can recreate Origin's research library in your own home!
Wings of Glory didn't include a bibliography in its manual but it more than made up for that with an eight page reference section in the official guide which even includes other games and movies the team watched! It's a fascinating piece of behind-the-screens information.
Finally, both of Origin's Longbow games included bibliographies. They're actually nearly identical, with Longbow 2 adding only two US Army reference manuals.
