Customer Reviews

Star Wars: X-Wing VS TIE Fighter with Balance of Power

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I don't know what all the criticism is about. Personally I think this is a great game from Lucasarts. The various melees are innovative and challenging, especially at hardest skill level, and anyone who says ISDs are puny should try playing it on a more adult skill level. Also, VSDs, although lesser armored, are pretty powerful. I think all the capital ships balance out nicely. The one thing I can complain about is the lack of TIE Defender in the game or add-on. Speaking of which, I think that the add-on pack really provides an immersing challenge. The missions are difficult yet fun, and make you feel like you are really fighting for your life and beliefs. Also, the SSD is huge! It's my favourite ship, and looks so menacing. In short, I just cannot see what everyone finds so wrong. Another great Lucasarts game, and roll on more.

It's a great game, since it requires a 3D accelerator the graphics are much better and the cut-scenes are awesome. With a new ship to be and a lot of more enemies it makes it hard but really fun. It has more missions and a campaign mode where your the Rebellion or Empire, and each side has totally different missions, it has a story behind it and is overall a 5-star game.

This game has answered a lot of Star Wars fan's prayers. Finally you can jump into the cockpit of a ship and play against real people. It is pretty exciting and that alone makes the game worth buying. However, the single player portion of the game is almost worth missing all together. Sure it's fun to play new missions but there is no story line and you just play them for kicks. Despite this, the multiplayer feature is exciting and I'd advise buying this game if you are a Star Wars fan.

You flew for the Alliance in X-Wing. You traded sides for Tie Fighter. Now get ready to experience both sides! This game offers great combat for multiplayer and enough single player missions to get you started, however not really worth buying unless you intend to play on the internet.

I happen to love this game... If you want a game thats easy to edit and create new missions, this is the way to go... it was designed so that you can play other people through the internet... that is what makes it so exciting! Nothing beats the thrill of prooving you are better than the others out there :)

You get to melee in Star Wars ships. That's essentially the point of this game. X-Wing Vs. Tie Fighter includes melees such as free for all, ones with wingmen, in asteroid clusters, etc. There are also things like minecleaning and turkey shoot where you shoot at larger ships.
Balance of Power adds the B-wing to the list of ships, and campaign missions. Also, my favorite part of the game, it adds a 25 minute long turkey shoot that starts with cargo freighters and ends with a super star destroyer. The first time you see the size of it, you'll be happy you got the game.

Fun. Once I start playing, it's usually hours before I quit. Controls are good, too, though it takes a bit to memorize what keys do what.

This game is totally awesome! It really puts you into the Star Wars universe like Battle for Naboo and Rogue Squadron did. The controls are good for a game like this. I give this game 5 stars!

While this game was the first game in the X-Wing/TIE Fighter series to be a multiplayer, you might be better off using a DSL connection because it's veryveryveryveryveryveryvery laggy. Missions are tough on the Rebel side because of all the TIE Advanceds, but on the Imperial missions, it's too easy. Also, they forgot the B-Wing (which comes with Balance Of Power), the TIE Defender and in the non-BoP version, even the lines when you go into hyperspace. Lots missing, work on it.

After the extraordinarily good X-wing and TIE Fighter games, Lucasarts decided to continue the series with X-wing vs. TIE Fighter, and expand on the area fans had complained about most in the first two titles -- the lack of multiplayer. Unfortunately, this was done at the expense of everything else. While if you have a decent internet connection the mutliplayer features are pretty cool and fun, this game has no plotline, no backstory, nothing to tie it together...It's just a random series of missions and melees. Not only that, but although it's an improvement over the graphics of the original floppy versions of its predecessors, XvsTIE's graphics still look kind of grainy and aren't very good. Added to that was the horribly embarrasing opening cutscene, and you have a pretty horrible game.

So LucasArts decided to remedy the problems, and released the expansion, Balance of Power. It wasn't worth the effort. Yes, it enhanced the graphics a little, yes the cutscenes looked good (even if they weren't especially cool or innovative), but it just didn't add enough. While it claimed to have a plot, and it did, it just didn't feel right.

There are two campaigns, but they're not linear. Either you're flying in an Imperial Task Force sent to wipe out the Rebels, or your flying with the Rebels to wipe out that task force, so the story can really go either way. And the levels don't flow from one to the next, it feels like just a bunch of random encounters, some embarrasingly easy and some disturbingly difficult. And the campaigns are so short that after you finish both within a week, there's no sense of accomplishment. It's just a wasted 20 bucks. Do yourself a favor and skip this one. Buy X-Wing Alliance, with it's superior story, multiplayer, graphics and cutscenes, and save yourself some time and money.

WHAT!!!!!!!!!!???????????
ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO FEEL LIKE YOUR MOVING IN YOUR LITTLE SHIP?

Probably, but it doesn't work to well. When you're first playing the game, it can be confusing and you can get "Lost in Space".
Why?
Because, first of all, all of the controls are new to you and you don't know what is what in the cockpit. So if you turn, your facing a [blank] picture of space - and you can't find your way back to the battle. But you get used to it. But it's still annoying!

So why did I give this game five stars?
Because EXCEPT FOR THE ABOVE, (and a little more at the bottom) IT'S GREAT! YOU REALLY FEEL LIKE YOU'RE THERE! ONCE YOU KNOW THE CONTROLS AND WHAT EVERYTHING MEANS, YOU'RE HAVING SUCH A GOOD TIME, YOU DON'T GET OFF TILL MIDNIGHT!

G-R-E-A-T G-A-M-E-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GET IT!

WARNING: If you don't currently have a joystick, don't get the game! It requires a joystick to play! (I had to go through that, and it wasn't fun.)