TIE Fighter

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This article is about the DOS/Windows game. For the Imperial starfighter, see Empire starfighters.

A sequel to X-wing and still considered one of the best computer space-sims over a decade since it's original release.

The TIE Fighter game places the player in the role of one of the many fighter pilots flying for the Empire in the years following the destruction of the first Death Star. Though the missions involve simple civil unrest on the Outer Rim, later missions are fought against the Rebellion and even a splinter Imperial faction which attempts a coup d'etat against the Emperor. Many notable Star Wars characters make appearances, including Grand Admiral Thrawn and Darth Vader.

An upgraded version built around the XvT graphics engine was released in 1998 but was later found to have severe issues when combined with 3D Accelerators under Windows XP. Fortunately a compatibility patch XP users was created by fans, and can be found at: http://www.lucasfiles.com/index.php?action=file&id=653

Links

from http://ho.rebelsquadrons.org/new_projects/game_info/tief

MobyGames http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/gameId=240/

Screenshots, hints, tips: http://members.tripod.com/~stanislavs/games/tie.htm

http://www.cdaccess.com/html/pc/tiefight.htm

Extensive reviews of TIE Fighter http://www.ibiblio.org/GameBytes/issue20/greviews/tie.html http://www.ibiblio.org/GameBytes/issue21/editor/tierev.html

All versions of the X-Wing trilogy http://www.totallygames.com/games/xwing.htm

Two Custom missions http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/chalex/Tiefight.htm <currently down>

Mac review: http://www.applelinks.com/reviews/tiefighter.shtml

TIE Fighter Game Builder: http://www.winwins.com/tgb/

Special Operations Squadron (many editors): http://membres.lycos.fr/sosleader/links.htm

Library files (missions and editors): http://www.benimar.com/black_knights/library.htm

Gamers' Workshop: http://grafix.tripod.com/cheat.htm

Omega Squadron: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/1945/hq.htm

Several custom missions: http://softlyspokenmagicspells.com/tie.html