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Engaging storyline, great graphics, can be very taxing!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 40 / 41
Date: November 14, 1999
Author: Amazon User

If you thought X-Wing vs. TIE was good, you'll love this. You play the role of the son of a family caught up in the Rebellion. You start by flying missions for your family business. Eventually you can join the Rebellion and fly X-wings, A-wings, B-wings, and you even get the chance to fly the Millennium Falcon! The range of missions is great, and you can practise your skills in the simulator, or the pilot proving grounds. My only criticism is that some of the early missions are very tricky, and the difficulty does not always seem to increase in logical order.

The best Star Wars simulator to date!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 20, 1999
Author: Amazon User

X-wing Alliance is the best flying game I've ever played. There are over 20 flyable craft and you can select which craft you want to fly and the ships that will be your enemy in the skrimish mode. Well worth the price, it also has a good story-line.

Good, but not great

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I've been played about all of the Star Wars sims games, but this one just isn't my favorite. Yes it does have absolutly great graphics, nice original music mix, and force feedback support (yay). But I found some of the mission designs to be just not credible, and the storline was definatly lacking. They didn't even finish it! Also, the big "Death-Star" battle in the end wasn't very good.

Good Game, decent storyline.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: January 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

All in all a good game, but don't forget that you need a joystick, so if you don't have one, buy one with this game!

wow

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Two words: buy it! Once you see the first mission you will never want to go away! I was impressed a to hear Aeron and Emkay chat while we were heading for the hyperspace jump point! Its like Half Life, telling you the story while you are playing!

And the graphics.... and the ships........ oh wow!

Classic Star Wars space-combat to last forever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: February 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I just got my copy of X-Wing Alliance yesterday, after deciding that I liked the Star Wars space combat best out of all other space games. I wasn't gonna get it just because I wanted to break routine and try something new (I've only been playing the X-Wing and the TIE-Fighter wars up till now). So I bought Descent:Freespace...and it IS a GREAT game...but when it came down to it, I missed the Star Wars space combat, so the next day I bought this and it felt great! Updated for today's standards both graphically and mission-wise, this game is a heck of alot of fun. The feel is better than any previous X-Wing type game. The action is better. And the included game editors, skirmishes, melees, and fan-support sites will keep the gaming value at endless proportions! For the small price of the software, you have endless lasting benefits. Definately for anyone who loves space-combat, whether they are Star Wars fans or not...you will all find The Force...and love it! Frantically recommended!

Promise squandered on loyalty to out-of-date gaming engine

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: February 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

On the face of things, "X-Wing Alliance" has the makings of an extraordinary entry into the Star Wars franchise. The characters are engaging, with enough backstory given in the accompanying written material to start a small movie. Conveniently, there *is* actually a small movie which opens the game off with a real narrative bang. It makes one wish that Lucas himself had taken a page from the game producers when he was making _The Phantom Menace_.

Unfortunately, after this high point, the game soon degenerates into endless missions which advance the plot--painfully slowly. Oh, there are cool points along the way. The cut scenes are interesting, and the sound environment throughout the missions is superb. But the in-play graphics engine is fairly ordinary by LucasArts' own standards. The missions themselves are endless variations on the same themes. And the game's conclusion is less than satisfactory.

But there's another side to the game--multiplayer action--and for this the game deserves some praise. As a vehicle for capturing the gaming possibilities of the Net, "X-wing" is worth the purchase price. There's a large, loyal player base for the whole "X-wing" series, so you'll never be alone on the Net.

Still, there are better options to get what you want out of a Star Wars game. "Rogue Squadron" is an infinitely better single-player space game. And the upcoming "Force Commander" promises to be something of a new standard in multiplayer action. By comparison, "X-wing Alliance" merely feels like a solid update to an aging series.

Space Combat a Worthy Sucessor To the X-Wing Series

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: February 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

My friends and I bought the original X-Wing a little bit after it came out. We played ti to death, and after many months of faithful playing that classic, addictive game, we beat it. The smae went for the follow-up TIE-Fighter. And after the wait after X-wing vs. TIE Fighter, we were hungry for something new. And now, Alliance!With its improved graphics, great online play and much more immersing story than any previous X-Wing game, X-Wing Alliance is a worthy follow-up to such great games.

Great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: March 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

GET THIS GAME! Great graphics, very realistic, great sound, challenging missions, and lots of missions and replay value make this game a true 5-star game! Multiplayer combat too! Spend hours of fun trying to get those extra bonus points, trying to destroy the Death Star, and much more. Plus many, many missions! WOW! (Joystick is required, but it's worth it!)

Nice Flying, Ace!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 14 / 16
Date: March 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Sweet! I've been around since the original X-Wing, and I'm glad to see the advances! Remember the original floppy-disk X-Wing for MS-DOS? The ships were nothing more than a few single-colored polygons, and the HUD only showed a picture of the ship, not the actual moving ship. Plus, you had 3 ships, well, okay, 4 ships (after the B-wing expansion pack) to pick from. The dumb racing track took over ten minutes to go through one lap, and the missions were close to impossible! But we didn't mind because that was the best a computer could offer back then. Well, not we've got extremely detailed ships (with moving gun turrents...wow! :) ) with 3D accelerated graphics, over 15 ships (you use about 8 of them in the real game, many more in multiplayer) you can fly, and new-fangled light sources! Plus, you go into the Death Star on this one! It isn't like that two-colored gray surface from X-Wing! Now it's got 16 million colors! Unfortunately, some of the difficulty from X-Wing moved over to X-Wing Alliance. It's just a WEE bit hard. Some missions will have you laughing at the enemy, while others will make you slam your computer desk. Fortunately, you can put it on easy mode (can't do that in X-Wing!). Plus, some of the mission objects may seem a bit too much to handle. But I think this is only a minor problem. A few missions stand out...like one where you jump out of hyperspace directly in front of a Super Star Destroyer! (for the uninformed, a SSD is a BIG mutha ship that you shouldn't go NEAR...heck, it's so bad that you'll only see one in the whole game!) Overall, you'll find a great space combat game in this package. Go on...buy it!

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