Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance
The conflict is escalating... A neutral family fights for its business - and its survival - and is swept up in the struggle against the encroaching Empire. You must defy the strong-arm tactics of a rival…
Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance is a shooter developed by Totally Games, released 28 February 1999 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance is
Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance is a shooter game developed by Totally Games and released in 1999. It was published by LucasArts. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance is a 1999 space simulation video game, the sequel to both Star Wars: TIE Fighter and Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter. X-Wing Alliance presents the story of the Azzameen family, a family of space traders. The player assumes the role of Ace Azzameen, the youngest of the Azzameen children, juggling military duty as a fighter pilot for the Rebel Alliance, and allegiance to his family, flying larger heavily armed freighters for the family business, amid a bloody family feud and in the larger context of a galactic civil war. It received favorable reviews.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Star Wars series
Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance is the 59th of 334 entries we hold in the Star Wars series. The next entry was Star Wars: Episode I - Racer in 1999. Its critic score of 84 is 13 points above the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Angry Birds Star Wars II at 100.
How it was received
Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 84% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1999 averaged 72, so it scored 12 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.8 GHz, 1 GB RAM and 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (DirectX 9 recommended). At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it launched against
Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance launched on 28 February 1999, within three weeks of Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia, Final Fantasy VIII, Silent Hill and Syphon Filter. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia, Final Fantasy VIII, Silent Hill, Syphon Filter.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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