STAR WARS™: TIE Fighter Special Edition

This is one of the best flight sims ever made. Sure X-Wing came first, but the Rebellion is for wimps. Real men fight for the Empire! This game was about fantastic gameplay and a good storyline. X-Wing Alliance went a bit overboard with story telling, but this game has the right amount. It never feels too linear and there is a lot of background information during the missions and in the pre flight briefing. A must have for any Star Wars fans or Flight Sims and definitely a must have if you are a fan of both. Now we just need the rest of the series(X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance).

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The title is literally all you need. TIE Fighter, or more specifically TIE Fighter Collectors CD-ROM, is arguably the best space-sim game ever made. I use "ever" here to cover the past AND future. I don't care what's been made since or what might be made in the future. Until we as a people can literally fly around in star fighters, this is the best experience we'll have. Freespace 2 is a very close second, of course. TIE Fighter features a deep, enthralling, LONG campaign with many, many missions and a fascinating story about destroying rebel scum and serving the Empire. The 1998 re-release edition included full voice overs for every single line of dialogue and fully-voiced briefings and de-briefings, along with re-engineered music. This is quite possibly the best Star War experience you'll have until we get, I don't know, holodecks or something. FULL SPEED TO KILOMAR!

This game is the pinnacle of all flight simulators. Unlike today, where you have to shoot while on rails, this game allowed you to choose how to kill what and when. It had the most realistic control scheme, perfectly emulating what you see in the movies and what you read in the tech manual. I only have one hope for this special edition: I HOPE TO GOD THEY RELEASE THE VERSION WHERE THAT F'ING BUG IS FIXED IN THAT MISSION WHERE YOU HAVE TO DESTROY THE FLIGHT WAVES IN THE MON CAL SPACE CRUISER! There was a mission where you had to destroy all of the flight waves on a PERMANENTLY disabled Mon Cal space cruiser. There was a bug in the re-released version and the original version where it'd warp out after 99 minutes, when it was supposed to be permanently disabled. The problem is that they did release a bug fix for this, but that bug fix was lost on subsequent editions. I actually had the disk at one point which FIXED this Hyperspace Bug, but it is no longer good. The 99 minute time limit is against the story (because the ship is supposed to be permanently disabled due to destroyed engines), and this 99 minute bug makes it impossible to obtain the full secret objectives, which require you to destroy something close to 12 waves of Veteran pilots (meaning you have to destroy 1 ship every 45-60 seconds). PLEASE, GOD, PLEASE - MAKE sure this version has that bug FIXED! I am afraid someone forgot this bug existed, because in all of the recent re-releases that bug has been present.

It's as simple as the title says. You will need a joystick, though.