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The Most Excellent Star Wars Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 13
Date: November 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was a fan of the first X-Wing game, and, immediately purchased this game upon its release in 1999. The inclusion of the Battle of Endor at the end was the selling point. Ever since, I have not needed another computer game! The other reviews have pretty much spoken for the game's plot and basic features, so I won't comment on those. This game, despite its age, is simply one of the best flight simulator type game out there!

If there is one way to describe this game, its detail! From the complicated story, of which you feel a part of, to the 3-D ships, to all the stuff that happens in the missions it is simply incredible! In the heat of a difficult mission, I have often lost myself in the game, only to shudder when returning to reality!

There are over 50 different family business and Rebel Alliance missions. In these you fly YT-1300 (Milinium Falcon type) freighters, Z-95s, X-wings, A-Wings, B-Wings and Y-wings. Compared with all past games, there is alot of function. You can dock with capital ships, carry containers, operate gun turrets on the freighters and fly through space stations. Space battles are replicated down to the smallest details - sunglare, blast shockwave, large debris, even ejected pilots! You have the ability to communicate with the pilots in your squadron, and there is a variety of "comm chatter" that you get from them!

I have beaten the game twice (it takes a long, long time). The final treat is that you get to fly the Milinium Falcon in the Battle of Endor (the big space battle in Return of the Jedi), complete with a VERY challenging run through the Death Star's interior! Strap on your flight helmets...

In addition to the missions, there is a "flight simulator" section where you can review past tour of duty missions as well as create your own missions! Here you can fly most of the starfighters (Rebel, Imperial, Pirate, Civilian, etc.) see elsewhere in the game. There is a third "Pilot Proving Grounds" section where you can fly Rebel starfighters through a series of mazes and obstacles while competing for the best time. In between Tours, there are some excellent cut scenes. You also earn awards in the Rebel missions and gather various "souviners" during your family missions.

This review has gotten way too long and no one is going to read it anyways, however, X-Wing Alliance is a supurb effort put out by Lucas Arts Entertainment and is well worth the purchase!

x-wing aliance

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 13
Date: April 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

X-wing alliance is a great game.The grafics are good and 3d is optional.There are missions from the movie and stuff thrown in for fun.The first 8 missions you are a son of a family buisnes man.I found it frustrating that if your firing at an imperial and an x-wing flies past the front of your ship while your firing the x-wing pilot gets mad and fires at you and when that happens too me it's harder too shake him off than blowing up a star destroyer.But over all it's a good game.

Great plot and the Millinium Falcon

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: September 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The best part of the game(of course) is the Millinium Falcon. The only game in the X-wing trilogy to allow flying Millinium Falcon/ corrilian missions. My whole reason for my liking Star Wars in the first place was the Falcon an awsome ship with turrets, corridors, and starship environment stuffed into a fighter thats manuverable plus hyperspace capability. And, of course, Han Solo and Chewie at the helm. In this game you can fly the Falcon(as Ace Asameen) but also an assortment of other ships including a redesigned version of the corrilian transport(that's more semetrical) and the classic X-wings, Y-wings and Tie-fighters(in simulatoions). If you like flying space ships this is the game to get and probably the ONLY game that supports nearly all of the SW ships complete with cocpits and interior detail. Like other Lucas arts simulations most missions deal with "the transport MUST survive" "You MUST fight off 20 Asault gunboats" or "You MUST meet with such and such at a given time frame" but it is a challenge even on medium difficulty. A dual stick game controller is the only way I have been able to survive any mission. Joysticks blow, long live dual controllers! Force Feedback IS supported, despite the age of this game. WOW!

Most Underrated Game Ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Really.This is one of the best games I have ever played,but there are few who have played it.

Anyway,here's my review.

The game starts off in between The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of the Jedi.You are Ace Azzameen.You are the son of a succesful family who runs a trading buisiness (that is being hassled by the vicious Viraxo). Later,your father is killed,and you become a pilot for the Republic (like pretty much every other Star Wars game). I'm not going to spoil the plot any more.

The game plays like most other combat flight simulators.You assume a first-person view inside the cockpit of a ship,and you fly around and shoot stuff.Sometimes you have missions where you have to deliver certain cargo,ect.

The graphics in this game are excellent (assuming that you have a good video card).If you have a outdated video card,the graphics can get kind of ugly.
The sound and voice acting in this game is excellent,too.LucasArts really picked the perfect actors for their roles.The sound is crisp and clear,but the music is just the same generic Star Wars music we've all heard about a million times by now.

PROS:
Great graphics
Good sound (and voice acting)
Nice controls
It's Star Wars!
Very cinematic

CONS:
You should have a good video card
Need joystick

? Why is it so underrated ?

X-wing Alliance Rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: May 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I think this is an excelant game,this game has excellant graphics, it is one of my favorite games.I only have two complantes about this game.I wish there were more missions like star wars tie fighter,and also when I first bought this game I was not good at it and I thought were's the rebel missions when I finally got to the rebel missions I found out there were more azameen missions but over all this is an excellant game

Best game for even this timeline.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

What can I say? This game is absolutly the best of the best. The older X-Wing and Tie Fighters had choppy controls I think, and the option to litteraly play the mission from the film room took away. Why would it do that? Anyways, I've turned my head towards the flight sims of Star Wars, because I have been thoroughly dissapointed by almost every Jedi game. Dark Forces II and Mysteries of the Sith were great, but Jedi Outcast really took away the challenges. The only 3 Jedi games I'm actually proud of owning are Dark Forces II, MotS and KOTOR. But Alliance still flys rings around them. Graphics don't make the game, and this is the perfect example. Yes, an older game, but the replay value is always a 5. Different stuff happens, you don't just do the same thing over again. This game offers such a challenge that even I sometimes must flee from a battle. The only real problem I saw was in the Death Star, where either you had to be your slowest or probably had to have mastery of the force in your own body just to evade the obsticles. But overall, great game, and I wouldn't trade it in for a million dollars.

Older game, but still very fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: October 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The graphics were a pleasant surprise...they look very clean and detailed. The story is neat, and there are a ton of different ships to pilot in single and multiplayer modes.

If you enjoyed the other XW series games (except XW vs. TF, because that was just horrible), you should seriously consider picking this one up. It barely costs anything now, and it's an entertaining title.

Excellent game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I love the X-wing series and this was an excellent finale to it. The single player game was fun and the multiplayer was fun too. It's become a bit dated now as the graphics are a little old but it's hard to find any other space sim that's better.

Inteligent Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: August 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'd buy a tri pack game which includes X-wing, Tie fighter and Rebel allience. The three of them are really good, but rebel allience has a good history and increases it's level with each mission. It is not just a view and shoot game, you have to review your controls, transfer energy from weapons to shields, manage the flight and direction controls wisely. The game goes at your own speed.

best pc game i've ever played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this game rocks.once you get the basics it's a blast.a few bad apple missions make it a little frustrating however.the only anoining thing is you can't pick your ship.buy this!!!!!!!!!!!!

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