STAR WARS: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter - Balance of Power Campaigns is one of the most important and ambitious space combat simulators ever released, combining tactical starfighter gameplay with large-scale multiplayer warfare inside the Star Wars universe. While earlier entries in the series focused heavily on cinematic single-player storytelling, X-Wing...
Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter - Balance of Power1997
Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter - Balance of Power
1997 LucasArts71Good
Playtime
ModerateTypically 25 hours
Playable on
- Steam DeckPlayable
- Steam MachinePlayable
Available on
- $9.99
Game modes
Details
- Launch
- April 30, 1997
- Developer
- Totally Games
- Publisher
- LucasArts
- Themes
- Genres
Overview
Balance of Power features a Rebel and an Imperial campaign of 15 missions each. The campaigns supported 8-player cooperative play. Both campaigns revolve around the same series of events, but with alternate endings.
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Reception
Players77
Good- Steam77from 220 reviews
It plays well, but you need some guides to familiarize yourself with the controls.
The Old: I first played these games on an old AMD 80386 DX40 with 4 MB RAM, an 80387 FPU, and an ISA Orchid VGA card. After setting A220 D1 T3, configuring the Gravis JS, and a bare-bones autoexec.bat, I had enough of that sweet 640K to play this gem. The New: Installs and runs fine. My Sidewinder 3DPP isn't as configurable as I'd like. Bonus: I don't...
great game