TIE Fighter graphics engine, which uses texture mapping instead of Gouraud shading. The game was retrofitted with the X-wing vs.

X-wing had a major retouch for its release along with the collections X-wing Collector Series ( 1998) and X-wing Trilogy ( 1999). The in-flight engine is improved to the caliber of the later Star Wars: TIE Fighter game, which is an improved version of the original X-wing game featuring Gouraud shading. 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. 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.Ī year later (1994) X-wing was re-released as Collector's CD-ROM, with the expansion packs included.

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 expansion packs, Imperial Pursuit and B-wing were released shortly after. 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.Ī 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 strategy guide for the game. 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.Īpart from the tour of duty missions, players could explore the Pilot proving grounds 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. The first two tours had twelve missions each, while the third had fourteen missions. 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 original X-Wing game was released on floppy disk in 1993. X-wing was developed for LucasArts by the team which would later become Totally Games with the story created by Lawrence Holland and Edward Kilham.

3.3 Tour of Duty III: The Gathering Storm.

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