Star Wars: X-Wing - Collector Series

The Good
I was a part of the Rebel Alliance, felt like one and felt for the characters in the original trilogy. I was inspired by the Empire's quest:

"peace and order throughout the galaxy. Even now our capable forces, led by Darth Vader, are striking back at the Rebel insurgence."

I got to loyally serve a righteous and virtuous Empire in this game.

Graphics were absolutely awesome. Just like the actual Star Wars movies. The music made it all the more realistic. Never before or since did I experience such an engaging game experience.

TIE Fighter was by far my favorite game in this collection. Superior graphics, interface and GAMEPLAY made it far better than X-Wing, X-wing vs TIE Fighter and X-wing Alliance. The story in TIE Fighter was one of the best I've ever seen in a computer game. You could actually ask for reinforcements and NOT LOSE POINTS in the game. Your allies actually helped you to accomplish the missions and you did not feel like you were always alone like in X-Wing. The mission briefings and in-flight radio comm from your Imperial comrades as well as the Imperial March was exciting. If you succeeded the missions you got great compliments from the Imperial Officer doing the debriefing and from the Cloaked Figure. If you fail your mission objectives you would receive very helpful advice so that you could correct your mistakes. The Officer and cloaked figure always spoke in the most elegant and civilized way. The original game and movie music helped bring about a sense of pride in the Empire as well as that 'you are there' feeling along with Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Darth Vader. All these elements made this game a great inspiration for me. This game was simply fun, fresh, and thoroughly entertaining.

The Bad
X-Wing could have been made better. This release gives both of them good graphics but it was so hard to beat X-Wing while TIE Fighter was much easier and more rewarding.

More realistic missions could have been useful in X-Wing. Instead of escorting a million shuttles that are easily destroyed with no support from the Rebels it would have been nice to go on the attack for once. I got this collection to kill TIEs. They did not even have to kill me to make me lose the game. The Empire gives much better support and craft to the gamer than the Rebels, which is so unfortunate since I got this collection to kill TIEs, not defend them.

It would have been nice to play as the Empire at the Battle at Endor in TIE Fighter as the game really brings you to that point but then left me a little disappointed that I could not serve the Empire in the time of its greatest need. I know the original TIE Fighter was made back in '94 but they could have enhanced it further in the '98 version with that famous battle. To defend the Super Star Destroyer and the Death Star II would have made it the greatest game of all time.

The Bottom Line
TIE Fighter is the best game ever, now with superior graphics that make it better than the newer games in the series. X-Wing is good for the Death Star missions but not for much else. X-Wing vs TIE Fighter gives the Rebels TIE Fighter quality equipment for use in their craft. This may be old now but I highly recommend it for all Star Wars fans.

Serve the Emperor.