Since we're talking Wing Commander, I'm gonna go a little out in the pasture and recommend Terra Nova: Strike Force Centari. It's somewhere in between an FPS and a mechsuit simulator, wide open maps for each mission, and terrible FMVs, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the dropship cost a nickel, and in those days nickels had pictures of bumble bees on them.

Memes aside, Wing Commanders FMV scenes made the Terra Nova devs feel they had to include FMV scenes, and I have fond memories of playing that game.

Protip: In some missions the Multipulsar sometimes has more range than the enemy AI, which means you can SLOWLY pick off an enemy at range if a mission is giving you a hard time.

If you really want something with futuristic fighters, try Fury^3, Hellbender, Terminal Velocity, all very similar games by the same devs, but you're in atmo.

Since we're talking Wing Commander, I'm gonna go a little out in the pasture and recommend Terra Nova: Strike Force Centari. It's somewhere in between an FPS and a mechsuit simulator, wide open maps for each mission, and terrible FMVs, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the dropship cost a nickel, and in those days nickels had pictures of bumble bees on them.

Memes aside, Wing Commanders FMV scenes made the Terra Nova devs feel they had to include FMV scenes, and I have fond memories of playing that game.

Protip: In some missions the Multipulsar sometimes has more range than the enemy AI, which means you can SLOWLY pick off an enemy at range if a mission is giving you a hard time.