Customer Reviews

Star Wars: X-Wing Collector Series

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I remember playing TIE fighter for hours when in college. Hands down one of the best games available for any computer.

The missions are designed to be difficult enough to make you try multiple times, yet I never felt the need to throw the computer out the window because I just couldn't beat that one superhard level.

For Star Wars fans, many familiar characters appear in the game such as Mon Mothma and Darth Vader (when you are a good enough pilot, you are Vader's wing man for a mission).

One of those games I play and replay. Easy to get wrapped up in and really feel like you are there. There is a reason why many critics consider this one of the best PC games ever. I think I'll get off the net and play it right now!

I've bought the X-Wing collector's CD and also the TIE Fighter one. I've beat the Tours of Duty two or three times on both games. And now I bought this a few months back. Man these two games are simply some of the best stuff to ever be released onto the PC. Replayability is high. I've logged so many hours and shot down so many spacecraft over the years, and I still can't get enough(even my joystick finally broke). I don't care if there are at least a hundred missions on each CD, I still want more!

I bought this game for my 486 years ago, back when the game had to be installed from a floppy diskette. The gameplay is second to none. No game since this one has kept me up at night, formulating different strategies in order to succeed in a previous mission failure. The amount of detail in this game blows my mind comparing it to other, more "asthetically pleasing" modern games. The level of difficulty is very, very high; however, I never became so frustrated as to give up, only to try harder. Hands down, my favorite videogame of all-time. This one even tops Diablo II, folks.

X-Wing and TIE Fighter are definitely the best Star Wars games ever made. Absolutely. And this package has those both with all expansions and additional missions in same package. And top of that, both have enhanced graphics. Unfortunately they are not even at the level of X-Wing Alliance, but they are at least better than the original. The resolutions is 640x480 which is unbeatable compared to old 320x240 graphics. Music is real audio instead of some miserable midis. Many have complained about the lack of iMuse as in original DOS-versions, but I don't. If you don't have any versions of these games, but you like them, this is a HAVE TO BUY game.

The third game is worthless, and I haven't even tried that, so I'm not gonna say anything else about that. It's merely a bonus game, which you can toy with a while. It's not an actual game with story or anything.

Oh, and by the way, these both (XW+TF) DO work in Vista or XP, just use the compatibility mode from the properties, if you have problems.

X-Wing was a truly fun and challenging game when it first came out, and now its even better. Upgraded graphics make the game more realistic and the movie soundtracks are a great improvement over the synthetic soundtrack of old. This is definitely one of the best pilot games of all time.

My only complaint is the lack of realistic situations in some scenarios. As you proceed, you will find yourself piloting a lone ship assigned to take on a virtual armada of enemy ships. If any commander routinely sent his pilots into such ridiculous situations, he'd soon find his pilots defecting en masse.

The saving grace is the number of non-storyline missions available. When you find yourself defeated for the 20th time on a certain level (and you will) it's nice to have these non-storyline missions available. Another saving grace is that when your character gets killed, you can resurrect him/her and pick up where you left off.

I can't believe how fun an old game can be. Sure, the graphics are a little dated, but the gameplay is unbeatable. This Collecter Series is a really great deal that saves a lot of money because if you only buy one of the games you'll end up wanting to play the others too. So buy it today!

Simply put : 3 of the best space flying games ever made. All they need to do is revamp the format to work on XP and Vista without issue and Lucasarts will draw in a whole new generation of gamers. You want a classic space flying game with a great story line from a movie, buy this set. You won't regret it. Easy to learn the controls and easy to play. Hours of fun no matter your taste. Rebellion or Empire, the choice is yours.

I don't think there have been any other games that come close to the depth and richness of these games for simulating the "Star Wars" flight experience that we saw in the movies. Action games like Rogue Squadron and Starfighter are fun, but they're watered-down "set pieces" that run on rails when compared to this series. X-Wing was great, and TIE Fighter blew away everyone's expectations for what a space dogfighting game could be.

This collection isn't perfect - the resolution maxes out at 640x480, the 3D support is rudimentary, it's a pain to get it working with Windows XP or newer systems, and the CD music isn't as charming as the original dynamic MIDI soundtrack. Also missing from X-Wing is the option to assign wingmen to fly with you -- a minor omission, but a shame it wasn't included.

Does it hold up today? Not so well -- but these have been re-released so many times that we're probably not going to get an update of this old design ever again, so this is the best way to play the old dogfighting games if you have any interest. The price is certainly right!

A long time ago I bought X-Wing (the original, not the collecters version) and considering I was only 7(or less, I can't remember exactly) it was too challenging for me but I found it was still very fun. A little afterward I bought Tie Fighter (again not collecters), I found this to be a little easier then X-Wing but still just as fun. I've seen the collecters versions for both and they have signifigantly improved in many areas, not the least of which is graphics. I still play Tie Fighter and would also still play X-Wing if it weren't for the fact that I hard installed it on my old computer(which I no longer own) that we dont have anymore and I no longer have the disk. Overall I have to say that they both are amazing games. I've never played the third game but even if it's really bad, paired with the two other games...... I have to say it's definatly worth it to buy this product.

If you don't think a game where you fly Star Wars star fighters is awesome then you're worse than six bags of Hitlers.