With the family mission tutorials behind Ace, players join a Rebel squadron and spend most of the rest of the game hitting Imperial targets. He’s a silent character, but I would imagine anyone in that situation would be eager to blow some imperial shit up. While Aeron and Emon are left to pick up the pieces of the family company, Ace decides to enlist with the rebels as an X-wing pilot. The surviving Azzameens escape the empire’s seizure of their business and seek asylum with the rebels. The Azzameens are sympathetic to the rebel cause but don’t want to bring the empire knocking on their door.Īfter running a few deliveries for the family business and facing off with the rival Viraxo Industries company, Ace barely survives an imperial ambush and half of his family is killed. My standing on how this game compares to modern flight simulators is thus compromised, but the general idea of taking off in some sort of craft and flying from point A to point B still seems to be the norm. I haven’t paid much attention to subsequent developments in the latter genre, because they tend to be very dry games that have absolutely no narrative. In its heyday, X-Wing Alliance was regarded as both an excellent Star Wars game and a great flight simulator. Players can pilot various rebel craft in their tours of duty, and a host of other ships on missions for the family.
Ace Azzameen, the game’s silent protagonist, starts off running jobs for his family’s shipping business but eventually gets sucked into the Alliance’s fold.
Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance is a flight simulator that casts players as a pilot in the Rebel Alliance. How does it compare to games like it today, and would it prove compelling to a contemporary audience? Like so many classic games, Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance was recently re-released on Steam, and I’ve decided to take it to task. I enjoyed the Star Wars flight simulators released throughout the 90s, from Tie Fighter all the way up to today’s game: X-Wing Alliance. Before my primary interest in gaming was story, flight simulators were a great way to live out my childhood dream of being a TIE fighter pilot. Take on the galactic empire as a rebel X-wing pilot.Īs I continue to explore games outside of my conventional genres, I find myself returning to a childhood joy: flight simulators.
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