Damn those LucasArts cronies for kicking Obi-Wan for the PC. I think we'll have to wait long for the next Jedi-game to come forth... But a sequel (or prequel? ) for "X-Wing: Alliance" would be good, the good background story of it was very entertaining, you felt you had goals. Man, that YT-2000 Otana flew, I had fantasized about a revised "Falcon" before I saw it, with the cockpit in the middle, and I sure got a handful. The fantastic shields and turrets who could either shoot boresight or track targets really surprised me. You could also man the turrets ANH-style, and defend your craft while docking with a ship or station during combat.
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Jedi Knight ruled, the cutscenes were excellent, and the gameplay completely immersed me in the Starwars world. You can really see the torture of being a dark Jedi in the last Dark Path scene, where Kyle sees the hologram of his father telling him how proud he was of him, and destroys it.
Mysteries of the Sith was excellent too, with attention to detail, like the droid popping out of the wall at the entrance to Kappa the Hutt's palace, but that game could really have done with cutscenes to improve the atmosphere.
Tie Fighter was excellent, I really liked the feeling of becoming important within the Empire, and the vocal mission briefings were a nice touch. While the graphics in X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter and in-flight game were far superior, the lack of a story line and vocal mission briefings made the atmosphere a bit thin, so to speak. I haven't played the extension game for X-Wing vs Tie Fighter, but I heard it's pretty good.
------------------ "Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean universe-which stands continuously open to our gaze, but which cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth." Galileo (1623)
) for "X-Wing: Alliance" would be good, the good background story of it was very entertaining, you felt you had goals.
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