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Buy it for the Death Star run..

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

..And the rest of the game is great too. You get to pilot almost all the different Star Wars craft, including the Millenium Falcon. The action starts off slow so you can get used to the controls but things get heavy very quickly. There is also a custom battle simulator so you can create your own missions.

The original version does have frustating bugs in it, so you will need to download the patch and install it before playing.

Totally Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I thought that TIE Fighter was the best SW game ever. Boy was I wrong. ....So much more craft....more missions...funner missions.....JUST BUY IT!

Another Winner

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is great. If you liked XVT then you'll love X-Wing Alliance. It's pretty much in the same engine, but has enhancements like improved graphics and 3D cockpits. One drawback is the bugginess of the game which can be fixed by a quick patch. Other than that I love this game. It's StarWars.

You can't beat Star Wars space sims.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have played a lot of other starfighter sims, and nothing comes close to the elegance of Star Wars. The original X-Wing, which I played on my 486 in 1994, was better than most sims on the market today, and Alliance does nothing but improve on the older versions. It still looks great despite the time that has elapsed since its release. And for the price, nothing can touch it.

An excellent return to Star Wars space warfare...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: August 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Ten years ago Star Wars made its debut to the computer with TIE Fighter, which was one of the best games of its time. X-wing Alliance builds on TIE Fighter's concept but utilizes a whole new interface which includes new weopons,ships and commands.

X-wing Alliance takes dog fighting to a new level, with the ability to do virtually anything in an amazingly real unviverse. It allows you to get into the turret of a YT-1300, the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, or you can take command of an X-wing squadron and issue commands that direct their formation, actions and more!

If you get frustrated with the missions, you can always head over to the pilot proving ground where you can choose from numberous ships to fly and many more to fly against in deep space an asteroid field or a mine field.

If you had TIE Fighter you'd know how the missions always seemed to be the same, blow up the bad guys. X-wing adds originality to the missions; you can board ships fly inside them to blow up their energy cores and more.

It's an excellent computer game that makes you feel as though you were really taking part in the trillogy, and wait till the last levels, I wouldn't want to spoil the suprise but let's just say you'll be against one giant moon, wait a minute, "that's no moon, its a space station..."

May the force be with you!

Greatest space sim saga

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I started out playing Star Wars: Tie Fighter, and got addicted to it almost immediately. I even got most of my friends hooked on it. The story and concept (flying for the Empire) were captivating to say the least. I later bought X Wing, the original game in the series and was highly disappointed. One thing I kept in mind, though, was that it was the original, so of course Tie Fighter would have improvements made to it over X Wing. For example, if your ship got destroyed in X Wing, you'd lose any rank you achieved, which didn't make me happy. Anyway, later down the road I saw X Wing Alliance sitting on the shelf, and didn't even hesitate in buying it. The graphics are very smooth with greater ship detail, the story is even deeper, as your pilot persona is given a name and a family history affected in the game. There's far more eye candy to enjoy, such as ships actually taking damage, or a laser shots hitting the shields of a ship and dissipating. The immersion level of the game is great, the graphics are solid, it's a fun game to play while not being overwhelmingly difficult or easy. I purchased Freespace 2 about a year ago, and found it's story and graphics incredible, but the one shortcoming it had was that it didn't have that Star Wars flare to it. For the price of this game, buy it. Trust me on this, you're going to love it.

What X vs. TIE should have been

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

LucasArts really should have scrapped X-wing vs. TIE fighter and released this instead. It would have sold millions. Unlike X vs. TIE, Alliance has an excellent single-play plot and truly detailed ships- not just the old TIE fighter models with new textures slapped on. You can fly any of a huge list of spacecraft in multiplayer, including the famed Millenium Falcon and the even better YT-2000 transport. If you're utterly insane or just feel like messing around, you can even fly such junks as the Pinook fighter or R-41 Starchaser. The movies are well done and the graphics are better all around. The engine is also improved over the Balance of Power tweaks, so you won't have a critical lack of memory when a Super Star Destroyer jumps in. Capital ships also fire shots that explode into flak like the movies- a really cool effect that might be a bit too captivating. I remember one particular melee where I got blasted by an SSD while staring at the fireworks. The multiplay is much improved as well, with you being able to assign ships to teams and choosing the type of vessels you fly or fight against. With very few exceptions, just about all the vessels from TIE fighter, X-wing, and many new ones are available for use in multiplay. They even have a lot of ships seen only in tech manuals and novels, such as the Cloakshape and Preybird. Even if you're not much of a pilot, it's interesting to see how the new ships handle, and you can always observe things from a godlike perspective via the map mode. This is definitely what I had wanted out of X vs. TIE, and for all those who were disappointed by that game, I hope you'll check Alliance out.

A fantastic space-sim brought low by minor bugs

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I remember playing Tie Fighter on my old 486 PC and having an absolute blast with it. I also remember how dissapointed I was at X-Wing vs Tie-Fighter - great graphics but average gameplay...and why was there no single player component? X-Wing Alliance is the final entry in Lawrence Holland's X-Wing series of games, and more than makes up for that oversight.

I'll start with the minor problems first - mission bugs. About 25% of the missions have minor bugs that make them almost unwinnable. For instance, in one early mission you have to raid an Imperial space station. Even if you succeed in boarding the station, it still blows up, killing the Rebel commandos that boarded it. I had to skip this mission, I'm ashamed to admit.

You shouldn't have to use "cheat utilities" to get through a game as good as this. Oddly enough, when playing these missions again in the combat simulator, these bugs never reappear. Worse still, these bugs have never been fixed, even though two years have passed since this game was released.

On the other hand, when the missions DO work, they are very effective. There's one mission where you have to save your sister from an Imperial blockade. Imagine coming out of hyperspace, only to be faced by 2 Imperial Star Destroyers and Darth Vader's Super Imperial Star Destroyer - it's quite a shock and a thrill.

The graphics are very good, although not as good as Freespace 2 (although they do make good use of lens flare). You'll find yourselves spending half your time gawking at the massive starships. The Imperial Super Star Destroyer is especially impressive - be careful you don't fly too close otherwise you'll get shredded to pieces!

The audio is also quite good. A later patch released by Lucasarts makes effective use of 3D-audio, so if you have a 3D-audio card like a Creative Sound Blaster Live!, you're in for a little treat.

In conclusion, X-Wing: Alliance is a great game that could've been a truly excellent one. Some advice for anybody buying it though -
- Download the latest patch from the Lucasarts website. The patch adds a film room (with which you can record your missions). It also adds 3D-audio as well.
- There are still bugs with some missions. I strongly reccommend downloading a mission editor from the internet, if you want to do some twiddling with the aforementioned missions.

KOOL GAME!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

IN THIS GAME YOU WILL FIND MANY TWISTS! IN WHAT MAY SEEM TO BE A PEACEFUL CARGO DELIVERLY TO THE REBELS MAY INCLUDE A VISIT BY A STAR DESTROYER!! YOU MUST BE ON YOUR TOES FOR THIS GAME. AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE FLING A FREIGHTER IN A WAVE OF TIE FIGHTERS, TOO BAD!!!

very good

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

the best space sim I own, other than freespace 2, and starlancer. Its a winner, trust me. thank you, PEACE:

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