History YMMV / XWingAlliance

* NeverLiveItDown: A minor case overall, but good luck finding any fan who ''isn't'' bitter about Uncle Antan's betrayal and the fact that the canceled sequel left his fate completely unknown.

* IdiotPlot: The Rebel Alliance has secured a highly classified Imperial computer. The Empire wants it back at all cost because of its content. [[spoiler:[[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi It's information regarding another Death Star]].]] The Alliance ships the computer via the Razor...a Corellian Corvette. [[Film/ANewHope The same ship used by Leia in the fourth movie]]. Without any escort. Predictably, you have to rescue it [[HistoryRepeats when it gets boarded by yet, another Star Destroyer.]]

* UncannyValley: The cutscenes tend to fall into this due to the rather primitive 3D models of the characters shown onscreen. The fact that their rigid mouth movements fail to line up with their spoken dialogue does not help.
** A non-human case with the TIE Experimental craft, which receives this reaction InUniverse when first encountered by the Rebels. The TIE Experimental M1 however may be the most obvious case of this, and is very aptly nicknamed the "TIE Bizarro" as a result.

* MagnificentBastard: The unseen K'Armyn Viraxo, head of a rival shipping company who is determined to rub the Azzameen family out of the picture for his own personal gains; according to your sister Aeron, ''he's even blackmailed an Imperial officer''.
** [[spoiler: Your Uncle Antan, who was already difficult to get along with well before he turns traitor.]]

* IdiotPlot: The Rebel Alliance has secured a highly classified Imperial computer. The Empire wants it back at all cost because of its content. [[spoiler:[[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi It's another Death Star]].]] The Alliance ships the computer via the Razor...a Corellian Corvette. [[Film/ANewHope The same ship used by Leia in the fourth movie]]. Without any escort. Predictably, you have to rescue it [[HistoryRepeats when it gets boarded by yet, another Star Destroyer.]]

* IdiotPlot: The Rebel Alliance has secured a highly classified Imperial computer. The Empire wants it back at all cost because of its content. [[spoiler:[[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi It's another Death Star]].]] The Alliance ships the computer via the Razor...a Corellian Corvette. [[Film/ANewHope The same ship used by Leia in the fourth movie]]. Without any escort. Predictably, you have to rescue it when it gets boarded by yet, another Star Destroyer.

* DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound: The chatter of your fellow Rebel pilots during combat. It ''occasionally'' proves useful (for instance, reminders that you've got someone on your tail are because you actually ''do'' have someone chasing you and not because that's generic ''Star Wars'' combat dialogue people expect to hear a lot), but not often enough.
** Word of advice, don't play a drinking game every time you hear a fellow pilot utter "Imperial training seems a bit lax!" You'll be flying drunk in no time.

* BrokenBase: Many fans of the ''X-Wing'' series found the game to be a bit of a disappointment. Visibly dated graphics and an obviously aging game engine were among the main complaints the game received on its release, the multiplayer suffered from severe performance and connection issues that, along with the inability to play the campaign in multiplayer, kept ''X-Wing Vs. TIE Fighter'' alive for quite a while after. Many players didn't care about the family story; for them, the fact that you couldn't skip family missions (you could "take leave" to avoid up to three Alliance missions during game if they were proving difficult) made them even more annoying. It wasn't helped that, due to ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' coming out in the same year, this was also the last Original Trilogy-based game released by Creator/LucasArts for at least two years.

* MostAnnoyingSound: The chatter of your fellow Rebel pilots during combat. It ''occasionally'' proves useful (for instance, reminders that you've got someone on your tail are because you actually ''do'' have someone chasing you and not because that's generic ''Star Wars'' combat dialogue people expect to hear a lot), but not often enough.

* VindicatedByHistory: The game was initially met with a lukewarm reception in 1999; The campaign was seen as inferior to ''VideoGame/TIEFighter'', multiplayer suffered from issues that ''VideoGame/XWingVsTIEFighter'' didn't, and critics felt the game was graphically dated. When ''VideoGame/Freespace2'' released later in the same year to wide acclaim for its mission design and graphical power, ''Alliance'' was completely overshadowed. But fans have been much kinder to ''Alliance'' over recent years. It proved to be one of the last major space sim games before the genre went dormant on PC for over a decade, with Lucasarts abandoning the ''X-Wing'' series in favor of the console-friendly ''VideoGame/RogueSquadron''. The rerelease of ''Alliance'' along with the rest of the series on Steam and GOG in 2015 was warmly welcomed by Star Wars and space sims fans alike.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Several, including the Battle of Endor.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: It's ''Franchise/StarWars''. What were you expecting?

* MostWonderfulSound: The scream of the [=TIEs=] zooming past you.

* TheScrappy: Many feel the family that makes up the game's main focus is this. [[spoiler: Uncle Antan might as well take the cake for not only being an utter Jerkass towards his siblings to begin with but also for selling out the family to the Empire simply because his brother Tomaas' dealings with the Rebel Alliance would ruin the family's business, [[KarmaHoudini and managing to escape death/capture as well as getting away with his actions]].]]

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Played with; the game was criticized for its dated graphics despite being released in 1999, where it boasted actual textures and detailed backgrounds all around. Several fan mods however, most notably ''X-Wing Alliance Upgrade'', have helped to make it more deserving of this trope.