STAR WARS™: X-Wing Alliance™

I am extremely conflicted on purchasing this game due to the fact that i have this currently installed on my system. If you do not want to go through the headache of working around the original 16 bit installer then this is perfect. The next time I need to reinstall everything on my system I plan on popping by GOG and picking up this amazing game. I can only give 4 stars now until i know that the XWA craft pack will work.

I can't belive this is here! The best space sim ever! I don't know how many times I finished this game. Well, this and Warhammer: Dark Omen which, btw, I'm still waiting GOG! What's the holdup!? :) Anyway if you love Star wars and space sims its a no brainer. BUY. IT. NOW! THX GOG

Mission design is "Protect this and that" all the time and you always get the wrong vehicle for the missions. Most missions would be perfect with a X-Wing or A-Wing but what do you get? Y- or B-Wing! For example: You should disable enemy transports because slaves need to be rescued. Your mission is to indentify the transports with the slaves and disable them with an ion cannon before they reach the planet. Sounds like a perfect mission for a B-Wing you got in the previous mission, but you get a Y-Wing and your teammates with X-Wings are too stupid to shoot the Ties. They should give the player an A-Wing and let the AI disable the transports. This is the case for most missions. Forget this game and play the first X-Wing, Tie-Fighter and Versus.

The BEST game ever released. Period. You pilot in first person, but you can also give orders to your wingmen and you have to manage the energy on your craft too.

While I do liek the game, it is unfortunately defective. Presently I am stuck on the mission in which one has to retrieve the warheads from your family's storage depot. During the mission your wingman has so far slammed herself into the family's base twice, thus needing to restart the mission. Other times my cargo suddenly destroys itself for no reason. I am now running the mission for the 7th time, and am getting ready to delete the game form my pc.