Star Wars: TIE Fighter - Special Edition (2014)
Star Wars: TIE Fighter - Special Edition is a 2014 shooter video game made by LucasArts and Disney Interactive.
For once you fly for the Empire. TIE Fighter puts you in the Imperial Navy's unshielded cockpits and asks you to restore order to a galaxy the Rebellion keeps disrupting. Missions send you escorting convoys, hunting pirates, and dueling Rebel fighters, all while juggling laser power and engine energy with no shields to hide behind. The Special Edition polishes the 1994 original's presentation. It remains one of the most admired space combat sims ever made, partly for the craft of its dogfighting and partly for the odd thrill of seeing the Star Wars war from the wrong side of the trenches.
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What is Star Wars: TIE Fighter - Special Edition about?
For once you fly for the Empire. TIE Fighter puts you in the Imperial Navy's unshielded cockpits and asks you to restore order to a galaxy the Rebellion keeps disrupting. Missions send you escorting convoys, hunting pirates, and dueling Rebel fighters, all while juggling laser power and engine energy with no shields to hide behind. The Special Edition polishes the 1994 original's presentation. It remains one of the most admired space combat sims ever made, partly for the craft of its dogfighting and partly for the odd thrill of seeing the Star Wars war from the wrong side of the trenches.
When was Star Wars: TIE Fighter - Special Edition released?
Star Wars: TIE Fighter - Special Edition was released on 28 October 2014.
Who made Star Wars: TIE Fighter - Special Edition?
Star Wars: TIE Fighter - Special Edition was made by LucasArts, Disney Interactive and Lucasfilm.
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The films give you the other half of this war. Return of the Jedi stages the fleet battle these missions echo, and for the Imperial officers and Grand Admirals the campaign hints at, Star Wars - Thrawn Trilogy - Heir to the Empire is the definitive novel of the Empire regrouping after the movies. Same insignia, more strategy.
Fly deeper into the Star Wars galaxy
TIE Fighter drops you into the Imperial Navy during the war the films show from the other side. If flying for the Empire leaves you curious about the wider galaxy, these carry the story on, from the Rebellion's victories on screen to Grand Admiral Thrawn's cold campaigns in the novels that expanded the era.
Sci-fi games to jump into next
Beyond the cockpit, TIE Fighter belongs to a lineage of science-fiction worlds built to pull you in. If you want the genre in interactive form, these range from ship-commanding space epics to claustrophobic undersea and interdimensional nightmares, each with a setting every bit as strong as its shooting.