STAR WARS™: X-Wing Alliance™

X-Wing Alliance - Oh me, oh my. This is a top notch space sim, and one that in my youth I played a LOT. I was never fortunate enough to have played the original X-Wing, or Tie Fighter, or even X-Wing VS Tie Fighter, though I've heard nothing but praise, but this one here? The last one they made before the X-Wing series sort of disappeared? This was the game I brought a flightstick especially to play. Mostly because you couldn't play it without a flightstick... I tried and the game itself slapped me upside the head and refused to even load up without a flightstick. Starting from just after the Battle of Hoth, you start this game, not as an ace Rebel pilot, or even a dreaded Imperial pilot, but as the youngest son of a family of civilians just trying to get by, maybe offering a little support to the rebels on the side, as you do. Of course, evens in the game eventually force your hand, and naturally an alliance with the Rebels is made, but it felt very natural to me. Won't give anything more away... other than that this game's climax, which is revealed on the box art so it's not much of a spoiler, is that the finale involves the Battle of Endor. That's right, you get to take part in that finale, epic space battle and even, as an added bonus, get to try your hand and traversing the bowels of the second Death Star. Are you the next Wedge Antiles? Or Lando? Or are you one of those nameless mooks who died before you got to reach the core? Naturally, I was such an ace pilot that I reached the core and escaped, cementing my name in the halls of fame... actually I slowed down too much to make a turn and was rammed into from behind. Sad thing was... I don't think it was a Tie pilot that rammed into me, I think it was one of the other X-Wing pilots. -_- Well, that's my humorous story of the past. I do, HEARTILY, recommend you grab this game. I still have the physical copy of the game and won't let it go, that's how much I think of this epic space simulator. BUY IT NOW!

X-Wing Alliance is the second best Star Wars game in the galaxy. Modded with the excellent X-Wing Alliance Upgrade mod package, the game looks stunning even today. The best Star Wars game is of course TIE Fighter, now and forever. TIE Fighter Total Conversion is a free mod that completely reimagines all the missions from the original TIE to the X-Wing Alliance engine, complemented with the aforementioned XWAU. The mod was released 2th of July 2021 and is now available to everyone. It's stunning work and a joy to play. Highly recommended to all XWA owners! https://www.moddb.com/mods/tie-fighter-total-conversion-tftc

Ahhhh. The memories. First of all, this is a real Windows game, and it has no problems scaling up to higher resolutions (I remember playing this at 1600x1200 no problems). I am not sure how this will handle wide-screen monitors, but at least you are not stuck at 640x480. This has an excellent single-player story line and a great variety of missions. This is the best of the Star Wars flight sims, and one of the best games in the genre. You get to fly Corellian freighters (including, eventually, the Millennium Falcon), X-Wing, Y-Wing, A-Wing, and the Z-95. You even get to fly WITH Luke Skywalker on a mission. Buy it now!

Compatibility seems to be pretty good. Settings and music and voice overs work nicely. Multiplayer seems however to be DOA and I had prayed and hoped they would wait with X-Wing Alliance until such a time that they could release it with GoG Galaxy with full Multiplayer support like what was done with Alien vs Predator. The game itself is awesome. If you got a flight stick - grab it. Now.