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As the family's newest pilot, you fly tutorial missions at first, under the supervision of your sister Aeron and the droid Emkay. But even as you are training, the situation heats up. Before long, the family has been betrayed, your space station has been seized, and you're forced to turn to the Rebellion. Though the game's focus is on combat, the development of this story is tight and suspenseful.
The story and the merchant/smuggler setting give the game plenty of variety. One mission may have you piloting a loaded freighter through an Imperial blockade, while another may place you in the cockpit of an X-Wing on a hit-and-run raid against an enemy battle station. Every ship, every weapon, every sound effect is pure Star Wars, totally faithful to the look--and feel--of the movies. This extends to the missions themselves: nothing works as planned, but somehow you and your Rebel allies manage to make it all the way to the climactic Battle of Endor. If you've distinguished yourself in the earlier missions, hot pilots will get the chance to take the controls of the Millennium Falcon and cram a torpedo into the gut of the Emperor's second Death Star.
Controlling the fighters, freighters, and transports in X-Wing Alliance is easy, with all the options you'd expect in a Star Wars simulation. Shield, engine, and weapon power levels are all adjustable, so you, too, can transfer all power to front deflector screens while attacking, or shut down power to weapons to outrun a swarm of TIE fighters. Novice players may find it difficult to control wingmen or to keep track of the changing objectives when missions go sour. But practice makes perfect, and the truly frustrated can simply skip up to three missions without penalty.
With a modest learning curve and graphics that put you right in the milieu of the Star Wars films, X-Wing Alliance will have you flying combat missions for the Rebel Alliance in no time--and loving every minute of it. --Alyx Dellamonica
Pros:
- Loving attention to detail
- Fantastic sound effects and John Williams's music
- Interesting and changing mission objectives
- Wide variety of spacecraft
- Occasional bugs within missions can render them unwinnable
| PLATFORM: | Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95 |
| AGE GROUP: | 5 years and up |
| CATEGORY: | Software |
| MANUFACTURER: | LucasArts Entertainment |
| ESRB RATING: | Everyone |
| TYPE: | starwars, Lucas Arts, xwing, Computer Games, Action, Shooters (Shooter), Space Simulators (Simulation), Science Fiction (Sci-Fi, scifi), Star Wars (Starwars) |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Customer Reviews of Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance
Finally! Don't get me wrong by the title....I loved X-wing to death, and TIE Fighter was just fabulous too (we'll forget about Xwing V. Tie Fighter), but WOW!!! LucasArts finally got to an age when they had the computing muscle and graphical abilities to really give their X-wing series the beauty and power it deserves. These missions are really challenging and thrilling; when you fly into a cloud of TIE fighters and pick em off as they screeeeam by(with good surround sound speakers), you'll really feel like you're in the climactic battle of Return of the Jedi.
Which brings me to the "Finally!" of my subject line: you finally get to fly inside the Death Star!!!! That is, if you can make it to the final mission...some of these missions are very, very tough, even on "easy". I beat all of the missions up to the mission RIGHT before the Death star one. It was just too hard!! Fortuatenly, LucasArts implemented a "skip" feature if you just cannot beat a mission. This will come as a highly welcome relief to those of us who played certain X-wing missions 40 or 50 times before beating them...
I gave up on the game after losing the death star mission a few times, but I WILL get back to it once the school year starts again.
One note: I played the first half of this game without a 3D accelerator, then got a Voodoo III, and holy COW! The difference makes it almost an entirely new game. Don't play this game without an acceleartor, or you're missing out in a big way.
Though it didn't grip me quite as much as the original X-wing, this is still a fantastic game. Buy it if you're into the star wars thing!
good game for the fast computer
this game has some GREAT graphics. the missle trails engine glow and the model details are terrific. the story is a can't wait till next mission story. the AI is incredibly smart. a good game
Really captures the spirit of Star Wars
When I first heard about X-wing Alliance, I thought it was just going to be a cheap attempt to drag out the X-wing franchise. But this is an awesome game. Unlike TIE fighter, the gameplay experience has really been increased from the original X-wing in this game. Flying freighter-craft truly is different from flying starfighters - if you try to fly it like an X-wing, you're as good as dead. Also, comapred to pirate starfighters, I could understand why TIE fighters were considered so deadly, a distinction I didn't really get in the original X-wing.
Most importantly, though, when playing this game I truely felt I was in the SW universe. For example, in one early mission during a bacta transfer between the Azzameens and a shady group of pirates I really felt like I was in one of Timothy Zahn's novels. Also, the shuddering of the ships and the multiple explosive and cha-cha-chas of the TIE fighter's laser cannons went a long way towards enhancing the flying experience. The same goes for the planets images during combat, as well as the immensity of some of the space stations.
A couple minor criticisms: the cutscenes don't seem very relevent/ Also, the "big finale" against the Death Star seems to just have been thrown in, and was somewhat of a disappointment. Finally, most of the levels were a little easy - I beat most of them on one try with the setting on hard. I was hoping for a bigger progression in difficulty as the game increased. The Battle of Endor in particular I was hoping would be more fierce.
Overall, however, this is a great game, with an awesome multiplayer platform. The real forte, however, is the single player - this game has great replayability. I would recommend it to anyone. I even enjoyed it more than Rogue Squadron or Rebel Assault and maybe even Jedi Knight.