STAR WARS™: TIE Fighter Special Edition

Now that Disney has bought out the Star Wars franchise they are going to be doing some remake of these flight sims. It's not like Lucasarts released these games to GOG but Disney didn't seem to wait long.

As an old school Lucasarts games, I have nothing but love for my fellow reviewers. They have all taken their time to play this game before and now. Needless to say not everyone will be 100% satisfied, but take this for what it is worth. The main counter argument is that this game is incomplete as it is offered. This is simply untrue. If you play the original 95 updated version, it is quite complete with both extra expansion packs. I assume most of the negative reviewers are playing the 98 edition. Fair enough, I would be angry too if I expected the full complete updated edition to be the entire game. I didn't, I played the original updated file from GoG and I found it complete and as hard as ever. Play it on hard and the original updated graphics can be easily ignored. This isn't a game for noobs. This game is hard as fuck and equally enjoyable. TLDR: play the original version, and it has both expansion packs. Play it on hard, don't be a pussy. Best game ever made for those of us that are 27-35 years old and have played it before!

Well, I played this games all night long as I was young it was absolutly amazing. I got the Floppy Disk Edition also included " Defender of the Empire" , so I don`t know the collectors CD or the 1998 Edition. Anyway, I`m very happy that this game run now on modern PC`s with Win 7 or 8 because it is one of the best game ever made. You can even play the 1994 Version with the Mouse and the 1998 Version with a Gamepad is also enough to have some fun, but if you want real pleasure, you need a joystick. But why is the collector`s CD 1995 missing, GOG if you got the rights please publish it, than it would be 5 Stars. MfG sweetoh

I bought the original in 1994 for $49.00, I only got rid of it after I dumped my XP gear, I can't imagine how many hours I killed/wasted/enjoyed on it, it was so hard, but still great fun. Tie Fighter and Aces of the Pacific were my two best time wasters in the 1990's, I would pay top dollar to have Windows 8 versions with full wide screen and full surround, run it from my laptop to my 60" via HDMI !!

Despite what some whiners in other comments may say, this version of Tie fighter is excellent. Great graphics great sound quality and excellent story. If you wanna play arguably one the best star wars games ever, give this a shot.