Following up his Millennium Falcon, Tie Fighter, and Imperial Destroyer drones, aerial videographer Oliver C is back with his long-awaited X-Wing fighter.

Games + Apps // OCTOBER 28, 2014. X-Wing and TIE Fighter Return on GOG.com. This will be a day long rememberedby Star Wars gamers everywhere. Star Wars: X-Wing.

Play X- Wing with upgraded graphics. Trust us: you should.

Some games are just too good to die. Lucasart's classic Star Wars space sim X- Wing is one of them. A recent post on Reddit gathered together a series of mods that will let you play the old X- Wing campaign in a more recent engine, in high resolution and widescreen. We knew right away that it was time to blow the dust off a joystick and get it up and running. Here's a four step guide to getting the classic space sim working on a modern PC in full retextured glory. All you'll need is a copy of X- Wing Alliance and these four steps and you'll be locking onto Interceptors in no time.

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X- Wing Alliance. The first step is to get X- Wing Alliance installed and patched up on your system. It may be an old game, but it still works fine on modern operating systems. It's worth noting that the and graphical overhauls we'll be using will not work unless your copy is patched up to version 2. You can grab the patch right here on Lucasart's support site. Ultimate Craft Pack. Next up, it's the Ultimate Craft Pack, a mod that updates and reskins hundreds of craft with lovely new high resolution textures, and even adds a few new ships to the mix.

During the installation process you'll be asked to select your preferred resolution and choose whether you want to use some of the custom sounds and laser effects added by the mod. Now we've got a full working, souped up version of X- Wing Alliance on our hands. Kon Boot Bypass Windows Login Passwords Cracked Dll Download. Stop here if you want to play through the Alliance campaigns, as the next step will overwrite them with missions from the original X- Wing. X- Wing Missions. An old project called X- Wing Redux converted all of the original X Wing missions into updated versions that would run in X Wing Alliance, the trouble was, they were all in Spanish.

Fortunately Waylon and a team of dedicated modders have localised and updated the old mod. Both parts can be downloaded here under the heading XWC3. Before starting a mission, it's a good idea to head into the menu and make sure that your graphics settings are maxed out, this will stop the game crashing when you launch a mission. Now, if you start as a new pilot and enter the briefing room, you'll find yourself playing through the original X- Wing campaign. Heading to the flight simulator will let you play the Death Star assault missions. If you change your pilot to 'XWC' then you'll have access to a series of bonus missions that will put you in charge of some of the nimble A- Wing or the noble space- tank and bane of Star Destroyers everywhere, the sturdy B- Wing.

Widescreen Support. This is the most fiddly part of the whole process.

There are two ways to hack the game and enable widescreen. The first uses xwahacker. To use this unzip the files from xwahacker you want into your X- Wing directory, and then run the xwahacker application. If this doesn't work then the alternative is to edit the XWing. Alliance. exe using a utility called Be.

Hexeditor. Details on how to do this can be found in the Read. Me of XWC3. 1. Be sure to back up your . And there you have it.

A joystick is still mandatory, but if you've got the equipment and the patience to get widescreen working then you're in for a treat. For more X- Wing Alliance mods check out Darksaber's X Wing Station, an excellent resource for additional ships and missions.

Star Wars: X- Wing Alliance Game Download. Overview. As the youngest son of the Azameen family cartel, you begin the game running your first missions for your father.

Flying YT1. 30. 0s (same model as the Millennium Falcon, but less customized) you learn the ropes of your business from family members. But before you can get too comfortable, your father gets into trouble while making a deal with the Rebellion. The ensuing disaster costs you and your family all but your most meager possessions - - basically, the ships you escaped in. The Rebellion has taken you in and you have joined their cause, a decision which has caused not a little disturbance in the Azameen family. Now any Bob Rebel can fly an X- Wing or B- Wing in tight formation, but it's time to show those Rebel boys what a real hot- shot can do behind the stick and turrets of a Corellian Transport.

Move over, Han Solo, Ace Azameen is in town. Gameplay, Controls, Interface. The time- line of the game spans from Hoth to the Battle of Endor.

You join a splinter of the main fleet which actually ends up discovering a lot of the revelations sprung upon the heroes of the movies. For example, you get to fly the missions that discover the existence of a second Death Star. You get to fly missions with actual members of Star Wars (both in celluloid and in print) such as Admiral Ackbar, Dash Rendar and Luke Skywalker. Yes, Luke is in there. It's awesome to watch one man providing space superiority cover for a whole wing of Y- Wings (of which you are one). The game itself is fun in both single and multiplayer modes. In fact, single player mode is quite engrossing.

While being linear, the stories revealed are entertaining. Still, like every other space combat sim, you fly missions connected together by command briefings and debriefings.

However, Lucas. Arts has made the interludes interesting. First of all, there are a lot of missions. I mean a whole lot - - over fifty. But you get to feel a sense of accomplishment because the game is divided up into several chapters, each designed to advance the story toward its climax at Endor. Mingled in with the Rebellion missions are missions you fly for your family in cargo ships like the YT1.

So while you are helping the rebel cause, you are salvaging your family business at the same time. As far as how the game is controlled, most of the controls are from previous Star Wars space sims, so the layout is familiar territory for veterans of previous X- Wing / TIE Fighter titles.

Plus, there is the ability to jump into the turrets of turreted vehicles (YES!). My only gripe here is that I haven’t found a way to re- map my controls. I hate having to reach around my keyboard to perform often- used functions. I wish I could put controls where I want them.

But for the most part, it's a minor point. Graphics. I love the graphics in this game. They seem greatly improved over X- wing vs. TIE Fighter. When you are flying a mission and a Star Destroyer and Darth Vader’s Super Star Destroyer drop out of hyperspace and into your lap, you know what has happened even before the dispatcher tells you. The models look just like they do in the movies (adjusting for minute details, of course). You can even see the pilots of the other ships in a lot of the models.

However, the graphics do not stand up to the Descent: Freespace standard. There is no bleeding fire from wounded ships. All the explosions are small and look strangely similar, and the shielding effects are kind of weak. However, the movie didn’t sport bleeding ships or shield effects, so maybe it is that way by design. Suffice it to say that the graphics are more than adequate.

They are more than good, but not eye- popping, . A game is not made fun by eye candy alone. Audio. A strong point in the X- Wing series has always been its sounds. I mean, they are right from the movies. I’ve actually seen some people complain that the voices from the movie are not used in the game.

I mean, the Battle of Endor is almost painstakingly recreated, so why not use voice files from the movie, right? Maybe, but you encounter those same voices and other character voices elsewhere in the game, so you can’t just change them for the scenes where you have existing audio. Besides, who really cares if you hear the ? Really, the voices are good enough not to detract from the gameplay, and that’s good enough for me.

All this being said, the best part of this game’s audio is its music track. It is so unbelievably cool to be flying an X- Wing through an asteroid field being pursued by Star Destroyers, with John Williams’ Star Wars music blaring through my speakers. It made me want to cry out, . Two items of note are the point system and the skirmish mode. In skirmish mode, you can quickly set up multiplayer and single- player battles - - not full- on scenarios with scripting and stuff, but simple battles like you and your friends would want to play. Setting up a skirmish is as simple as listing the pieces out, determining their mission goals, their AI level, their distance apart and some other options. Then let it rip. It is really easy and only takes a few minutes to create a balanced skirmish.

The keywords here are easy and balanced. It's easy just because it's a point- and- click, pull- down box kind of set up. But it's balanced because of the point system. You can fly every fighter in the game from the crappy p. Plus you can fly a lot of the shuttles and cargo ships as well. And you can have any of the ships from the game from Shuttle Tyderium to Darth’s Super Star Destroyer as NPCs. Each ship has a basic point value that represents how powerful it is and that number is modified depending on how the ship is loaded out.

So as a game host, you just say, this is a 5. I believe) with up to but not over 5. It's that simple.

System Requirements. Windows 9. 5/9. 8, Direct. X compatible computer, 2. MHz or faster CPU, 3. MB RAM, you can squeak by with 2 MB PCI/AGP 2. D graphics card, but.. For 3. D Hardware: 4.

MB PCI/AGP Direct 3. D Graphics Accelerator. PCI 3. D sound card), CD- ROM drive, joystick, mouse and keyboard required. Direct. X 6 required and included on the disk. Multiplayer will do IPX, TCP/IP, modem, and Direct Serial with appropriate hardware. Documentation. Documentation is good. It has a short section telling you who you are and a short description of the chief characters of the game.

The rest of the story is unfolded within the game. Each command is documented. The game does not come with any kind of tutorial that tells you how to do the elementary functions. I found myself pausing (after I found the pause command in the huge list) a lot and looking up the keystroke sequences for commands I was being asked to perform. This is to be expected in large complicated games, but that doesn’t make it any less frustrating.

Bottom Line. If you dislike lots of commands or space combat in general, or think Sci- Fi space operas are better off in a galaxy far, far away, then this is not the game for you. However, if you are a space combat sim fan, you'll enjoy this game. If you are a Star Wars freak (and hey, who isn't?) with even a passing interest in space combat sims, then you'll love this game. I realize it may not be for everyone, but that doesn’t mean it's not one fine piece of work. Thank you, Lucas. Arts. You seem to have corrected everything from the nightmare that was X- Wing vs.

I highly recommend it.