This game is the pinnacle of all flight simulators. Unlike today, where you have to shoot while on rails, this game allowed you to choose how to kill what and when. It had the most realistic control scheme, perfectly emulating what you see in the movies and what you read in the tech manual.

I only have one hope for this special edition:


I HOPE TO GOD THEY RELEASE THE VERSION WHERE THAT F'ING BUG IS FIXED IN THAT MISSION WHERE YOU HAVE TO DESTROY THE FLIGHT WAVES IN THE MON CAL SPACE CRUISER!

There was a mission where you had to destroy all of the flight waves on a PERMANENTLY disabled Mon Cal space cruiser. There was a bug in the re-released version and the original version where it'd warp out after 99 minutes, when it was supposed to be permanently disabled. The problem is that they did release a bug fix for this, but that bug fix was lost on subsequent editions. I actually had the disk at one point which FIXED this Hyperspace Bug, but it is no longer good.

The 99 minute time limit is against the story (because the ship is supposed to be permanently disabled due to destroyed engines), and this 99 minute bug makes it impossible to obtain the full secret objectives, which require you to destroy something close to 12 waves of Veteran pilots (meaning you have to destroy 1 ship every 45-60 seconds).

PLEASE, GOD, PLEASE - MAKE sure this version has that bug FIXED! I am afraid someone forgot this bug existed, because in all of the recent re-releases that bug has been present.