Star Wars: X-Wing - Collector's CD-ROM

An excellent tactical game with the same cinematic feel as the Star Wars Jedi games.

Getting tactical with the boys.

Pick a decent specialization to begin with.

After going hands-on with a Star Wars Zero Company preview build, I'm more optimistic than ever about Bit Reactor's new strategy game

There's a funny thing with video game genres in particular: a lot of them are based on just closely tracing the lines of preexisting games, only with a few small mechanical tweaks and a different-enough setting over the top. And few genres are quite as obvious in that regard as the XCOM-alike: a turn-based tactics game based on managing a small squad of permanently-killable allies through a series of close-quarters, grid-based combat encounters, before ducking out to do a bit of RPG-lite housework in some kind of base or mothership metagame. This is Star Wars: Zero Company, a game where you do