X-Wing and TIE Fighter game remakes may be coming soon
I recently wrote a series of posts about the glorious return of the point-and-click adventure genre of games, which has historically been dominated by LucasArts. Now, it appears that LucasArts may have something equally as exciting in store for us…
From g4tv.com:
LucasArts’ two-pronged attempt to revitalize their classics with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition and Tales of Monkey Island appears to be a success. As part of a follow-up interview with LucasArts president Darrell Rodriguez about plans for the months ahead, I asked Rodriguez for thoughts on a return of the company’s lauded X-Wing and Tie Fighter flight sim series.
His answer?
“We don’t have any announcements now, but stay tuned,” said Rodriguez. “We will soon…..”
By the way, that’s his number of dots, not mine. We conducted the interview over e-mail. Five dots is far more mysterious than three dots, so I’m willing to bet I’m onto something here.
Whether it’s a full-on remake ala The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition or an addition to the company’s growing Steam lineup…well, who cares? Either one would be the first acknowledgement of a major part of LucasArts’ legacy in a long, long time.
The last major release in the series was X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter X-Wing Alliance. I missed that one.
X-Wing and TIE Fighter were two of the greatest Star Wars games ever to be released. They were fantastic flight simulators (well, space flight at least) that allowed Star Wars fans to embrace their dreams of piloting iconic spacecraft from the films. And they were fun too.
These games are begging to be remade for the XBox 360 in HD with surround sound. Plus, I already own a flight stick for the 360, which I hope the remakes would support. But I’m clearly getting ahead of the news. It is likely that LucasArts is simply re-releasing these games on Steam, as they recently did with many of their other classic games. But I hope it’s much more than that.
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It’s good to see some life coming back into LucasArts. X-Wing and Tie Fighter were really challenging but also very fun (I don’t think I ever did beat all the missions on X-Wing). I’d like to see Wii or Mac versions of the new games. The iPhone/iPod touch could be a good format as well. There’s a great game for the iPhone called “Galaxy on Fire” which has a very similar feel to the X-Wing/Wing Commander series so it definitely can be done.
Dang! About time.
There have not been many if any at all good space combat simulators since. Can you name any??
X-Wing & Tie Fighter were masterpieces where almost every key on the keyboard was used for something.
I can only image how amazing it will be with todays computers. I hope if they do a remake it stays true to the original and is not dumbed down.
I hope that they make a new game and that it is released on the pc, a games console joypad has insuficant functions to give the same versitility as a pc keyboard, there were over 20 functions in x-wing and tie fighter you can easaly do that on a keyboard but not a joypad
Really hope they do re-make x wing etc… I spent many a happy hour playing these classics on my own and with friends.
Finding out that starcraft 2 and now a new xwing (possibly) its good to see quality titles coming back (fingers crossed)
:)
I just bought SW trench run on my iPhone, really fun but very limited to former X-Wing pc gamer. Without a doubt they should make a re-make the first X-wing for iPhone.
“There have not been many if any at all good space combat simulators since. Can you name any??”
Freespace 2 was even better, but not by much, and of course, it wasn’t Star Wars ;)