That ‘if’ depends on your skills and tendency to become frustrated, because you’ll need your skills to be high and your tendency to be low to play this game for any longer than a few missions. Each mission grows in challenges, each Tour of Duty more involved and complicated than the last, but it all manages to feel attainable if you can beat the next mission. The 100+ missions might seem daunting, because well frankly it is, but unlike some games where they throw too much content at you to hide the game’s ineptitude, they throw all these missions at you to taunt you.
The most important thing to point out is the sheer amount of content X-Wing‘s Special Edition comes with: 100+ unique missions, several different craft to fly said missions, and a strategy guide with 595 pages which contains the Farlander Papers hidden within. But then GOG.com brought it online for the latest wave of gamers to experience and suddenly I realized nostalgia was just about 10% of X-Wing‘s genius, with the other 90% being all thanks to the game’s mechanics, depth, and sheer fun.
It’s been two decades since Star Wars: X-Wing originally blew up PC screens and you’d think all this talk of it being one of the greatest flight sim games/greatest Star Wars games of all time was just a bunch of nostalgia.
