A beautifully clean remaster of a classic game. They even include an old demo level "The Avenger" that was built when the game was still in beta. Avenger is a surprisingly punishing level considering the minimal varety of enemies (stormtroopers, officers, fleet troopers, ceiling turrets). The game itself continues to be the classic FPS it always was but looks great and runs smoothly on a modern PC.
Absolute nonsense. It's like the designers quit halfway through development.
I first played this title when it was brand new as part of a bundle of PC games that my dad got when he got the family a new PC for Christmas. This was the title I kept coming back to. Not because it was easy to play, far from it, but because it was awesome. Chris Roberts produced this shortly after he made Wing Commander 2. Graphically it was innovative using texture mapping on top of polygon models. Sure, today it's an obvious relic but it holds up. Recommend you download and peruse the manual and have the reference card on hand when playing. The difficulty can be tweaked to one's liking as well. You can make it punishingly hard with simulated G-forces blinding your view as well as sun glare. Your Vulcan cannon will likely be your most used weapon as the missile loadout is realistic with only a few available at a time. You can give yourself a break with unlimited gun ammo if you just want to enjoy yourself, but if you want a challenge you'll still have one. Damage to your craft is punishing. You may find yourself only able to steer by rudder and trying to splash a MIG rushing towards you with only your guns as your ailerons. The story isn’t bad either. Set (at the time) in the near future of 2011, you lead a group of F-16 equipped mercenaries in a world full of open warfare. I’m guessing the near exclusive use of the F-16 was a creative restriction, though you fight over two dozen kinds of aircraft, and near the end game (spoilers?) you steal a prototype (at the time) YF-22 and use that in the climax of the main game, and continue to use its sequel mission that comes with this edition, Tactical Operations. All-in-all its great fun if you enjoy older games and especially flight simulators.
The conversion from Age of Empires 2 to a Star Wars setting is great. If only it wouldn't crash so often.
