To prevail in combat, most ships are equipped both with short range beam weaponry, most commonly Laser Cannons or Ion Cannons, which can be recharged, as well as a limited supply of long range warheads such as Photon Torpedoes or Concussion Missiles, which must be used more judiciously. During missions, the player controls a single starfighter from a first-person perspective, piloting it through a variety of hostile encounters, which can generally be divided into one of two categories: dogfights occurring between two or more ships of a similar size, or confrontations with larger and more dangerous capital class vessels.
SPACE SIMULATOR GAMES STAR WARS SERIES
The core gameplay of the X-Wing series revolves around simulated combat engagements between spacefaring vessels of the Empire and the Rebellion. The events depicted within the games are on the whole considered to be canonical happenings in the series' fiction, and over the course of its lifespan, X-Wing added a number of new characters to the Star Wars universe, with some of the more notable creations being Maarek Stele and Ace Azzameen, the protagonists of TIE Fighter and X-Wing Alliance, respectively, as well as Grand Admiral Zaarin, who organized an unsuccessful coup d'état against Emperor Palpatine. Several new types of spacecraft were also created specifically for the series, such as the TIE Defender and the Missile Boat, some of which do not appear outside the X-wing games. The Star Wars: X-Wing franchise directly ties itself not only to canonical Star Wars events, but also to the Stare Wars Expanded Universe with inclusions such as Grand Admiral Thrawn and the Z-95 Headhunter. TIE Fighter, X-Wing titles are known for their lengthy single-player campaigns, which dovetail with the events of the original trilogy. Though they differ in the particulars, games in the X-Wing franchise focus primarily on dogfighting between spacecraft of the Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Empire, and, apart from X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter, and Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance all games in the series, with the exception of the last, received at least one official expansion as well.
There are four primary titles in the franchise, which are, in order of release, Star Wars: X-Wing, Star Wars: TIE Fighter, Star Wars: X-Wing vs. As its name implies, the franchise is set within George Lucas' Star Wars universe, and all releases within it are set concurrent to the original trilogy, as they predate the cinematic release of the prequel trilogy (the last game, X-Wing Alliance, was released roughly three months prior to The Phantom Menace). Introduced to the world in February of 1993 with Star Wars: X-Wing, the Star Wars: X-Wing franchise is a series of space combat flight simulation games created by Totally Games (led by Larry Holland and Edward Kilham) and distributed by Lucasarts.
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