Star Wars Flight-Sim Gems(X-Wing,TIE-Fighter, XWA=
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Evening everyone. This is my second release in the "gems"-series, and this time I decided to provide you with some Star Wars games. The so called "X-Wing trilogy" to be precise. The torrent has been posted here before, but has since been removed, so I resubmited it. When they came out, all three of these games were considered the best of their genre, and both X-Wing and TIE-Fighter have had their graphics upgraded since then. I decided not to include X-Wing vs. TIE-Fighter because 1: I don´t have it :), and 2: It was mostly a multiplayer-game. A smaller trial-version is included on the X-Wing-disc if you´re interested. Let´s go over to the games then! 1. X-Wing. Released by Lucasarts waaaaaaay back in 1993 on five diskettes, this was a revolutionary game that just about everyone played. You are a rebel pilot and have to fight the empire in a storyline centered around the first movie, with the final battle taking place over the death star at the battle of Yavin. On your way there you will play through lots and lots of campaigns and bonus-missions. The game engine was upgraded and voices and sound were added for the games release on CD-ROM a few years later. For the 1998 "X-wing collector series" it was converted to work in windows and most of the interface between battles was redone. Despite the dated graphics, it is still a great game that captures the magic of Star Wars perfectly. If nothing else, you should play it just to experience the amazing Death star-battle. 2. TIE-Fighter. This was the highly anticipated sequel for X-wing, and by many considered one of the best games ever. Me included ;) This time it´s up to you in your cool black outfit to blow the puny rebel-hippies to dust, using a wide range of Imperial equipment at your disposal. You fly everything from a simple TIE-fighter with only two laser cannons to the kickass TIE-defender outfitted with shields, tractor beam, quad lasers, heavy torpedoes and more. You can even choose your ship and customize your equipment yourself after you gain some rank. At your side you have wingmen that you can assign orders to at any time, and your squad is supported by other TIE-fighters, bombers, assault gunboats and, of course, the mighty star-destroyers. There are lots of references to the movies and very cool cutscenes, which all add to the great atmosphere. Just like X-wing, this games graphics were upgraded in 98, both in-game and when it comes to the interface. It even supports 3D-rendering (although I couldn´t get it to work). If you like space-sims: play it. If you like Star Wars: quit your work and play it. 3. X-Wing Alliance. It doesn´t have that much incommon with its two predecessors, but it is nevertheless a solid game. Some of the "magic" is gone because you don´t start out as a member of any of the factions, but as the member of a family that trades in... something. That means you will spend the first third or so of the game flying ships and meeting enemies you have never heard of before. The game soon picks up, however, and let´s you fly all the familiar X,Y,A,B-wings and so on. The climactic ending is the wonderful and long (split up in several sub-missions) battle of Endor, with tons of fighters and capital ships flying around. And piloting the Millenium Falcon is of course a dream come true for all the fans. New features include the ability to man turrets on bigger craft, look around the cockpit using the mouse and of course higher resolutions and full 3D-hardware support. There is currently a project to upgrade all the models used in the game, and the ones I´ve seen looks absolutely stunning. Have a look at https://www.xwaupgrade.com/ Instructions on how to install are included with every game. All of them run in XP with no tweaking needed, at least not for me. I should mention you will need a joystick to play them. I played the DOS-version of TIE-fighter with my mouse, but that doesn´t seem to work in the Windows-edition. Let me know if you find a way. Feel free to e-mail/MSN-me if you run into any problems: [email protected] Have Fun!
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Just what I was looking for, thanks a lot.
Oh, also, for those of you that are curious, yes, your XBOX 360 controller will work just fine with these games.
alrite im running windows xp i mount the cue file using daemon tools, i get to the menu where it asks to install the game, check reqs and view documents. i click install hear the engine sound and the... nothing. the screen stays up for a bit then just closes itself without doing anything, help please? ive tried it on the x wing game the x wing vs tie, and tie game so far
I had a problem that i cant mount X-Wing Alliance If you know how to fix this plz coment
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