Star Wars X Wing Trilogy
Just like the Jedi and the Sith, history of Star Wars video games tends to be extreme: Either the games are really great and beloved (X-Wing, the N64 Rogue Squadron) or totally terrible.
The Star Wars: X-wing computer game is the first DOS game set in the universe. An attempt to capitalize on renewed interest in Star Wars sparked by Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy and the popularity of flight simulation software, X-wing achieved what few subsequent Star Wars games could by being critically acclaimed, embraced by fans and a financial success. Players entered the role of a young pilot in the and gave them the opportunity to pilot the titular X-wing, as well as Y-wing, A-wing and eventually B-wing starfighters.
Contents History Original releaseX-wing was developed for LucasArts by the team which would later become with the story created. The original X-Wing game was released on floppy disk in 1993. The game was split into three tours of duty which followed on from each other, though the player was free to tackle them in any order.
The first two tours had twelve missions each, while the third had fourteen missions. Echoing the Alliance's hit-and-fade strategy, the majority of missions are concerned with protection, salvage, intelligence gathering and ambushing Imperial capital ships where feasible.Apart from the tour of duty missions, players could explore the and historical missions to train and augment their scores on each of the three available ships, X-wing, Y-wing and A-wing with six historical missions for each ship, before beginning the standard scenarios. They could also examine ship schematics and review mission films that can be recorded in the memory cache during the missions, and afterwards saved in disk.A limited edition version was made available with special packaging and a book titled The Farlander Papers, which gave the background story of Keyan Farlander, the player's character, and which also featured in the for the game.Expansion packsTwo expansion packs, Imperial Pursuit and B-wing were released shortly after. Each provided an additional twenty tour of duty missions while B-wing also gave access to its namesake, the B-wing starfighter and another six historical missions for that ship. Two of these missions were the remade versions of the tour of duty Death Star missions, where the player now could fly the B-wing in the attack against the battlestation.The Collector EditionsA year later (1994) X-wing was re-released as Collector's CD-ROM, with the expansion packs included.
It tweaks various areas of the game by including bug fixes, easy versions of some old missions, improves graphics, rehashed cutscenes, bonus missions, as well as voiceovers for the mission briefings and the in-game radio messages. The in-flight engine is improved to the caliber of the later game, which is an improved version of the original X-wing game featuring Gouraud shading.X-wing had a major retouch for its release along with the collections X-wing Collector Series and X-wing Trilogy. The game was retrofitted with the graphics engine, which uses texture mapping instead of Gouraud shading. Concourse graphics and some cutscenes were also retouched and the game was now Windows 9x compatible, but the remade X-wing wasn't very favorable by most fans.MechanicsX-wing operated on a custom-built graphics engine that used 3D polygons instead of the bitmaps used by the popular games. Totally Games based the engine on their earlier flight simulators.The player must complete missions ranging from simple dogfights with Imperial starfighters, through escort or capture for freighters or capital ships to attacks on larger opposition ships. Each series of missions is organized linearly, permitting the player to choose either death/capture or a retry at each failure.Scoring advanced the player's rank (Flight Cadet, Flight Officer, Lieutenant, Captain, Commander, General). He then could use his old pilot files and assign them as wingmen; this would improve their AI performance according to the rank of the pilot assigned to each wingman.
Star Wars X-wing Pc Game
This feature however was removed from the Win95 remakes as well as the Macintosh version.The dogfighting was designed to resemble the free-wheeling duels of World War I and World War II and lacks the effects of realistic space combat. The game also offers the challenge of managing power resources (lasers, shields and engines), commanding wingmen, and using weapons effectively.By combining the exciting space combat with cut scene story elements and the interactive iMUSE music system, X-wing created an environment that attempted to recreate the atmosphere of the original trilogy's space battles.The cutscenes were usually composed by screenshots taken from instances of the movies but combined to make a new narrativePlot Note: X-wing is unique in the corpus of Star Wars in that it features many 'opening crawl' texts. Apart the introductory one, a crawl is seen when the player begins a new tour of dutyStar Wars: X-wingIt is a period of Civil War.Using fear and intimidation,the Empire seeks to impose aNew Order on the galaxy. Onlythe Rebel Alliance stands inthe way of their evil plans.Not yet willing to confront theEmpire directly, the Rebels aremarshaling their forces insecrecy.