Classic MS-DOS STAR WARS: X-WING Mod Updates Game To Current Graphics

The classic MS-DOS era Star Wars: X-Wing space flight simulator is making a comeback thanks to a new mod! "XWVM" is a mod that takes the original game and modernizes its graphics and offers more gameplay mechanics for a new audience. If you played the original game you're going to be impressed by this footage! 

Development gameplay video of current progress of the XWVM community mod: a remake of the original 1993 X-Wing flight engine meant to replace the old DOS or Windows executable. We had to skip the intro because ContentID blocks the whole video when it detects that Star Wars logo and text crawl!

If you've never played the game, players could control an X-Wing, Y-Wing, or A-Wing as they completed missions for the Rebel Alliance. Here's what the game looked like back in 1993...

X-Wing is a space combat simulation, the first in the Star Wars universe. From the cockpits of X-Wing, Y-Wing and A-Wing starfighters, players fight for the Rebel Alliance in their struggle against the evil Galactic Empire. Unlike earlier titles in the genre like Wing Commander, X-Wing employs a polygonal 3D engine: flat-shaded polygons are combined with bitmaps only for explosion effects.

Quite an amazing face lift right? The mod is free to anybody who wants it, but you must own an original copy of the game to get ahold of it. The good news is you can also purchase the re-release of the game on Steam (currently $3.99) and then attach this mod for a brand new experience! For that price who can say no? 

To learn more about the mod or download it, click here.