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Many a college year wasted...sigh...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 13
Date: March 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I remember playing TIE fighter for hours when in college. Hands down one of the best games available for any computer.

The missions are designed to be difficult enough to make you try multiple times, yet I never felt the need to throw the computer out the window because I just couldn't beat that one superhard level.

For Star Wars fans, many familiar characters appear in the game such as Mon Mothma and Darth Vader (when you are a good enough pilot, you are Vader's wing man for a mission).

One of those games I play and replay. Easy to get wrapped up in and really feel like you are there. There is a reason why many critics consider this one of the best PC games ever. I think I'll get off the net and play it right now!

Two Classics in One Box!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: May 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I've bought the X-Wing collector's CD and also the TIE Fighter one. I've beat the Tours of Duty two or three times on both games. And now I bought this a few months back. Man these two games are simply some of the best stuff to ever be released onto the PC. Replayability is high. I've logged so many hours and shot down so many spacecraft over the years, and I still can't get enough(even my joystick finally broke). I don't care if there are at least a hundred missions on each CD, I still want more!

Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: September 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I can't believe how fun an old game can be. Sure, the graphics are a little dated, but the gameplay is unbeatable. This Collecter Series is a really great deal that saves a lot of money because if you only buy one of the games you'll end up wanting to play the others too. So buy it today!

An ageless game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my 486 years ago, back when the game had to be installed from a floppy diskette. The gameplay is second to none. No game since this one has kept me up at night, formulating different strategies in order to succeed in a previous mission failure. The amount of detail in this game blows my mind comparing it to other, more "asthetically pleasing" modern games. The level of difficulty is very, very high; however, I never became so frustrated as to give up, only to try harder. Hands down, my favorite videogame of all-time. This one even tops Diablo II, folks.

An old favorite returns

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

X-Wing was a truly fun and challenging game when it first came out, and now its even better. Upgraded graphics make the game more realistic and the movie soundtracks are a great improvement over the synthetic soundtrack of old. This is definitely one of the best pilot games of all time.

My only complaint is the lack of realistic situations in some scenarios. As you proceed, you will find yourself piloting a lone ship assigned to take on a virtual armada of enemy ships. If any commander routinely sent his pilots into such ridiculous situations, he'd soon find his pilots defecting en masse.

The saving grace is the number of non-storyline missions available. When you find yourself defeated for the 20th time on a certain level (and you will) it's nice to have these non-storyline missions available. Another saving grace is that when your character gets killed, you can resurrect him/her and pick up where you left off.

Suberb game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

X-Wing and TIE Fighter are definitely the best Star Wars games ever made. Absolutely. And this package has those both with all expansions and additional missions in same package. And top of that, both have enhanced graphics. Unfortunately they are not even at the level of X-Wing Alliance, but they are at least better than the original. The resolutions is 640x480 which is unbeatable compared to old 320x240 graphics. Music is real audio instead of some miserable midis. Many have complained about the lack of iMuse as in original DOS-versions, but I don't. If you don't have any versions of these games, but you like them, this is a HAVE TO BUY game.

The third game is worthless, and I haven't even tried that, so I'm not gonna say anything else about that. It's merely a bonus game, which you can toy with a while. It's not an actual game with story or anything.

Oh, and by the way, these both (XW+TF) DO work in Vista or XP, just use the compatibility mode from the properties, if you have problems.

Oh...My...God

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Concerning X-wing

I remember getting this game for my birthday way the heck back in 1992. The missions were so fun and CHALLENGING now this is a word that most people in the computer game industry seem to have forgotten. The appeal of this game for me was that because it took so much time to complete(I think I managed it in 2 years) the victories were all the swetter when you won.

Nowadays you can just type in a cheat code and skip to the end well keep in mind that such a thing did not exist on the old DOS machines.

X-wing was the first but later on Lucas-arts improved the engine by adding TIE FIGHTER (that's right a game where you play on the side of the Imperials) this also provides some very challenging missions but can be beaten with much more ease that anyone could ever beat x-wing. Still fun, just as enjoyable

Now X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter brings us relatively up to date combing elements of both games what you have is a game that is more useful for multiplayer than single player missions. This is finally where the age of this type of game in this type of format began to show. Most of the missions in this game were just repeats of the same missions in X-Wing and Tie Fighter. Although the graphics are better and there are one or two missions that provide a great level of enjoyment.

If any of you old dogs out there are still using 98 or 95 pick up a piece of gaming history and get a copy of this package.

My Favorite Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: February 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Tie Fighter is my favorite game. Of course, that means little without knowing me. I'm 33. I got my Atari 2600 when I was 8, and my first computer (Timex/Sinclair ZX81) when I was 10. I used to regularly steal $20 bills from my mother's purse to spend hours at the arcade. (P.S. -- Haven't seen HyperBall in along time. A very nifty mechanical game.)

I believe popular video games began a downward spiral with the sad arrival of Doom.

Nowadays, I still have a working Atari 2600 adapter for my ColecoVision. I have a nice collection of KOEI games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. I have nearly 2000 arcade machine ROMs on my computer.

It is my opinion that Dungeons of Daggorath was the most innovative video game, ever. It is my opinion that Tie Fighter is the best video game, ever. It's sad that nothing better has come along in the 10 years past its release.

Tie Fighter

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: November 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is a good game. Tie Fighter, that is. This game is good enough to justify buying the three. It is fun, with the ability to play one quick level or many on end. X-Wing is really too old and doesn't hold up to Tie Fighter, and XvT is really pointless; If you're going to get it, go ahead and get the real thing.

Old but classic. Still the best Star Wars flight games you can play.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I don't think there have been any other games that come close to the depth and richness of these games for simulating the "Star Wars" flight experience that we saw in the movies. Action games like Rogue Squadron and Starfighter are fun, but they're watered-down "set pieces" that run on rails when compared to this series. X-Wing was great, and TIE Fighter blew away everyone's expectations for what a space dogfighting game could be.

This collection isn't perfect - the resolution maxes out at 640x480, the 3D support is rudimentary, it's a pain to get it working with Windows XP or newer systems, and the CD music isn't as charming as the original dynamic MIDI soundtrack. Also missing from X-Wing is the option to assign wingmen to fly with you -- a minor omission, but a shame it wasn't included.

Does it hold up today? Not so well -- but these have been re-released so many times that we're probably not going to get an update of this old design ever again, so this is the best way to play the old dogfighting games if you have any interest. The price is certainly right!

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