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Star Wars: X-Wing Collector's Edition

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This collection of all the X-wing titles (before Tie Fighter) is a great value, and an excellent introduction into the wonderful world of Rebel dogfighting. The sound effects, the graphics, the atmosphere--all of it evokes images of your favorite space battles in the Star Wars movies. You get to start slow, and work your way up to the really tough missions--and you'll need the time to learn, trust me! Quite simply one of the most all-around enjoyable games I've ever played.

Even in their original forms, both of these games have been on my hard drive since they first game out. With the exception of Elite, the Star Wars games were the first space sims to feel like you were actually flying in a 3D environment, not playing a 2D arcade game (sorry Wing Commander fans). Add 2 fantastic Star Wars story lines (both well fleshed out in the respective strategy guides), a chance to sample the overall lackluster sequel, updated graphics, and win 95 funtionality for under $20, and you can't go wrong. Freespace fans, check out the originals, and pick up Alliance. Its nice to see the series back on track.

Let me start off by saying that X-wing is a great game, with graphics that make you feel your in the movie. I've had this game for years and it continues to be one of my favorites. That being said, it is also incredibly frustrating. Essentially, you play a series of campaigns, each of which contains a dozen or so missions, and you must complete each mission before moving to the next in the campaign.

However, there are some missions in this game that are simply ridiculous. In one mission, you'll find yourself flying with helpless wingmen while facing absolutely overwhelming odds and trying to protect a disabled craft while flying the fighter option least equipped for such a mission, and all that's before the Star Destoyer shows up. If rebel pilots were truly sent on missions this hopeless, they'd have all defected to the Empire.

Luckily, once you complete a mission, you can play it again at any time, so when you find yourself hopelessly stuck on all campaigns, you still have something to work with.

TIE Fighter, even now, is, simply put, the best computer game ever made. Other people might say it's Civ II, and some would say that it was outclassed by Freespace or Wing Commander, but they are mistaken. TIE Fighter had a story. Not just a "we've been attacked, go and shoot them back" story but a very deep story, which involved the pilot. Furthermore, it had original missions. It wasn't just "go shoot them" or "help defend us", you do things like flying escort, scouting, recon, spying, etc. Well, basically, go look at PCGamer's review of it and rating, and see what other games have gotten better ratings than it. one has, and they're wrong. That having been said, this is basically TIE Fighter (and X-Wing, another respectable game) with updated graphics. They didn't put on Xwing versus TIE Fighter's truly awful control or interface, all they did was update the graphics. The result is that now the best game ever made has graphics to suit. No real computer gamer can afford to be without this.