Star Wars: TIE Fighter
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You are a member of the Imperial Navy, eager to fight the Rebel Alliance and other scum to strengthen the rule of Darth Vader and the Emperor.
The follow up to X-Wing is a space combat simulation set in the Star Wars universe. There are 7 campaigns, taking in over 50 missions. You often have wingmen who can be given orders to help you out. The detailed storyline is driven by cutscenes. You will fly a variety of craft from the lowly Tie Fighter to the speedy Tie Interceptor to the high-powered Tie Advanced. On each of these, balancing engine/laser/shield ratios in real time is crucial to getting the most power and safety.
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Average score: 90% (based on 20 ratings)
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Average score: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 117 ratings with 14 reviews)
NO# 2 IN MY ALL TIME HALL OF FAME!!
The Good
WHERE DO I START!!! In 1994 I was already a game vet with 7 years of great gaming experience, when my friend said you have to try TIE FIGHTER. At that time I had only ever liked one filight sim of any type. (F-15 II,Microprose) I had bought with much lothing other flight sims that made me a usual customer at the return desk of EB. I had looked at X-Wing and then Tie FIghter in stores but scoffed at them and said you will never see me buy that thing! One day at my friends house I watched him play and 3 minutes later after he agreed to let me take it for a spin, I was on way home faster than the law allows. 6 glorious years later It is still on my hard drive (note it has outlasted 3 computers) and just yesterday I was out and fighting for the empire. I wont bother to tell you why it is so good just trust me, "buy it borrow it plead for it rent it what ever just try it". WSM
The Bad
I wish that the medal section of the game was as cool as X-wing.
The Bottom Line
See above section if you still havent went to buy it.
DOS · by William Shawn McDonie (1131) · 2000
Another one of my all time favorites.
The Good
More laser blasting, high speed chasing, dog fightin' than you could ever ask for. Wonderful graphics, amazing sound track, and a whole lotta fun.
The Bad
Only that you aren't fighting for the Rebels.
The Bottom Line
Another space shooter well worth your money from Lucas Arts.
DOS · by Attila (553) · 2001
The Good
The fact that it's Star Wars means that you will wan to play this, only the difference is that you get to play as the Empire, that means instead of X-Wings, you can now play as a Tie Fighter!. There are planty of missions that will keep you busy, also the film room mode that allowed you to view your mission like a mini movie (a rather good feature in X-Wing) is also in this game.
The Bad
The missions can get a bit on the hard side and there are too many controls, but then that's the problem with flight games.
The Bottom Line
If you like Star Wars, and flight games, then you will really want to check this out
DOS · by Grant McLellan (584) · 2001
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Trivia
1001 Video Games
Star Wars: TIE Fighter appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
Coruscant
The high-orbit view Coruscant as seen in the intro (when the Star Destroyers approach it), looks curiously faithful to how Coruscant looked in the prequel movies, which were filmed five years after the game.
However, the collector's CD-ROM enhanced intro cutscene, features a different view of Coruscant orbit, blue with clouds, totally unrelated to the appearance of the planet-wide city we know.
Demo
In an early coup for advergaming, TIE Fighter's demo dropped jaws when it opened with a brief ad for the then-new Dodge Neon automobile.
Manual
Included with the game was the shortstory The Stele Chronicles which follows the young Maarek Stele, a top notch swoop jockey who's home planet has been at civil war for decades. When The Empire arrives and declares martial law in the system Maarek see's his chance to join up with The Empire and become one of the greatest Imperial pilot's of all time...
The manual has been merged together with shortstory, meaning that you learn tactics and instructions on how to operate your fighter whilst Maarek Stele is being trained at the academy. In the Offical Strategy Guide to Tie Fighter you learn more about what happened to Maarek Stele.
References
- In one of the training missions, you're called upon to protect a "Star Tours" ship from attack, a reference to the popular ride at the Disney theme parks.
- Many of the 'pirate' ships (neither Rebel or Imperial) have cryptic names. It's worth checking what they say in reverse. For example, on Mission 1 of Battle 11, the pirate ship is called 'yrabrab". In reverse, this spells 'barbary', which was a Mediterranean coast base for pirates from the 16th-19th Century. In missions that involve 'space pirates', look at the names yourself and try to figure it out!
- In Battle 9, mission 6, there is a Nav-Bouy with the designation CRM-114. If it looks familar, it should. It's the designation of the decoding device in Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove: or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.
- The creators were obviously quite fond of pop culture. In mission 1 of Battle 10, there is a buoy designated "MST-3K", aka the acronym for Mystery Science Theater 3000
Awards
- Computer Gaming World
- July 1996 (Issue #144) – Introduced into the Hall of Fame
- November 1996 (15th anniversary issue) - #56 in the “150 Best Games of All Time” list* PC Gamer
- April 2000 - #23 overall in the "All-Time Top 50 Games" poll
- April 2005 - #13 in the "50 Best Games of All Time" list
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Game added by Droog.
Additional contributors: Trixter, William Shawn McDonie, Adam Baratz, Patrick Bregger, darkpilot, FatherJack.
Game added August 21, 1999. Last modified January 24, 2024.