STAR WARS™ - X-Wing Special Edition Reviews

The greatest game ever made

Old school with an update!

Crashes and is not playable on a modern PC :-(

I loved these games 30 years ago. Hoped for another great retro experience... Started the Special Edition: Music was a choppy mess and the game crashed 5-6 minutes into the training mission. Tried the "Collectors Edition" (original graphics): Music was fine but controlling the game was impossible due to stick drift. Sadly not worth the bother!

[h1]„That was one in a million.“[/h1] Along with Star Wars Rebel Assault and Command & Conquer Red Alert, it was this game that made me realize back in the mid 90s that the PC is the superior gaming platform. In the meantime since then, Rebel Assault has turned from a guilty pleasure to one of the worst games ever made and Red Alert is still the greatest RTS game, but got some serious competition by its own successors and the likes of Age of Empires 2. The X-Wing series on the other hand is still something very unique and after playing the original for the first time in nearly 30 years, i remembered within minutes why it made me waste week after week on my dad‘s old DOS- and Windows 3.1-powered 3/86 back in 1996. X-Wing runs perfectly on modern systems without any compatibility issues or necessary bugfixing at all and it is perfectly playable with a common Xbox controller (maybe even better than with a classic joystick). The attention to detail, distinct classic Star Wars atmosphere and general amount of effort and refinement that were put into this thing are barely matched by any other Star Wars game of the last two decades and for 1993 standards X-Wing actually looks, sounds and plays basically flawless. The first time i booted it up again i had only planned to set up my Xbox controller, but within moments i got hooked again and played for over 2 hours straight. Now you might scream „Nostalgic Star Wars fanboy alert!“, but believe me, even if you are not a hardcore Star Wars fan that was born long before 1990, you‘ll find that this game aged like fine wine. Star Wars X-Wing is not only one of the best and most groundbreaking space combat simulations and a Top 10 greatest Star Wars game ever made: If it wasn‘t for Doom, this would be by far the most amazing game of the year 1993 and i dare say that it is maybe even one of the greatest PC games of all time in general. ______________________________ STAR WARS X-WING Genre: Simulation Release: Q1 1993 ( ) 0/8 Simply one of the worst games ever made. Don't waste any money on this. ( ) 1/8 Bad. Seriously flawed with barely any redeeming qualities. Worth a couple of Cents at best, if at all. ( ) 2/8 Sub-par. Only for hardcore-fans of respective genre / series. Don't pay more than 5 bucks. ( ) 3/8 Meh-diocre. It‘s okay. Don't pay more than 10 bucks. ( ) 4/8 Decent, but not for everybody. Don't pay more than 15 bucks. ( ) 5/8 Good game, Must-play for genre- / series-fans. Worth 20 to 25 bucks max, if you are not a fan. ( ) 6/8 Great game, universal recommendation. 30 bucks would be a steal for this. (X) 7/8 Outstanding game, a milestone of it‘s respective genre. Definitely worth its full prize. ( ) 8/8 Simply one of the best games ever made. Get this, the prize doesn't matter.

Seems that DOS/CD Collection really sucks at using a controller of any age, rather xbox, switch, a 8bitdo and etc.... But the special edition just crashes a lot.

Its hard, but once you get to know all of the hotkeys its doable. Its definitely challenging which is a plus.

Make your life easier and grab the XWVM mod(basically, this game ported to the Unity engine.) Easy to setup and can use modern day controllers. Peak Star Wars flight simming.