The classic Star Wars: TIE Fighter game is a shiny new fan remake thanks to a mod of the later X-Wing Alliance. Released on PC in 1994 by the old LucasArts team, TIE Fighter put players inside the cockpit of the titular starfighter and several other Imperial war machines as a pilot tasked with helping to stomp out the Rebel Alliance after the events of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
Star Wars: TIE Fighter was the second in a series of space combat sims that began with 1993’s X-Wing, and is still regarded as one of the earliest and best Star Wars games even to this day. It is especially noteworthy for being the first Star Wars video game to put players on the side of the sinister Galactic Empire, something that has been carried over to titles like Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and both Star Wars Battlefront franchises, among countless others.
A couple of days ago, fan modder Angel posted a trailer for TIE Fighter Total Conversion, an updated remake of Star Wars: TIE Fighter that they and a group of fans had been working on over the past several months. Built as a mod for 1999’s Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance, TFTC features updated visuals, which are shown in comparison to the original TIE Fighter, as well as new playable ships and missions and even VR functionality. The fruits of this project can be seen in the YouTube trailer below:
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Players have gotten a renewed taste for Star Wars-themed pilot sims thanks to last year’s Star Wars Squadrons, which captured the spirit of the old X-Wing games and even contained an Easter Egg shout-out to the 1993 original. Before the release of Squadrons, fans had been asking for a return to the classic X-Wing gameplay, and have even made their own Star Wars X-Wing remakes using content creation titles like Dreams.
TIE Fighter Total Conversion is a visually stunning and impressive fan remake, sporting graphics on par with modern console released despite using a game from 1999 as its base. The fact that Angel and other talented modders have put such work and care into bringing the classic Star Wars: TIE Fighter to life in this new way is a testament to how fondly the classic LucasArts PC games are remembered, sporting a legacy that has continued well into the modern era of Star Wars gaming.
Source: Angel/YouTube