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- Platform: Xbox 360
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SPECIAL EDITION CONTENT AVAILABLE AT A STANDARD PRICE - Strictly while stocks last
Fans who buy ACE COMBAT™ ASSAULT HORIZON for Xbox 360® or PlayStation®3 at Amazon, will bag themselves a copy of the Special Edition while stocks last, loaded with exclusive content.
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STEEL CARNAGE
Developed by the Project Aces team and written by best-selling military author Jim DeFelice, ACE COMBAT® ASSAULT HORIZON intensifies the franchise, escalating combat to the next level with aircraft that are literally torn apart, spewing oil and debris across the sky. Players will engage in combat across the globe, dodging skyscrapers, and turning their enemies into fiery supersonic debris in both single player and online multiplayer. Never before has combat been so fast and in-your-face.
"Could potentially revolutionise Air combat" – Play
"No flight action has ever looked so exciting or cinematic" – 360
"Call of Duty of the Skies" – Gamesmaster
KEY FEATURES
- Dramatic realistic storyline: Dramatic realistic storyline – Written by New York Times Best Seller and military author Jim DeFelice, players will experience an engaging war drama spanning real-world locations across the globe
- Steel carnage destruction: Incredible detail and visual reaction for every explosive attack (aircrafts are shredded to pieces, enemy troops annihilated, buildings shattered, machines bleed)
- Entirely new aircrafts to pilot: Experience split-second maneuvering and positioning, pinpoint targeting, hovering attacks and other gameplay diversity through the introduction of the Attack Helicopter, Door Gunner and more
- Revolutionary Close-Range Assault system: Delivering high-speed acrobatics, dizzying one-on-one encounters, satisfying visceral low-altitude and high-flying death from above
- Online reinvented: Take to the skies and engage hostile forces in a variety of modes
Helicopters included for the 1st time in Ace Combat's history!CHARACTER BIOS
Service: United States Air Force
Rank: Lt. Colonel
Place of Birth: California, United States
Age: 37
Main character and Ace pilot of the Warwolf squadron.
Lead pilot of the 108th Task Force. A professional serviceman and a person of few words, his calm and cool action under pressure, extensive battle experience and undisputable skill earn him the unquestioning respect of his subordinates. His encounter with a formidable rival in Africa will test his skills as a pilot and push him to the very brink.
Service: United States Army
Rank: Captain
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Age: 43
Shooter Squadron, Shooter 1
Captain of the AH-64D Apache Longbow Shooter Squadron, and commander of the Longbow and MH-60 BLACK HAWK Nomad Squadron. Having worked his way up through the ranks, he takes a strict yet protective stance toward his subordinates.
Service: United States Air Force
Rank: Captain
Place of Birth: Miami, Florida, United States
Age: 32
Warwolf Squadron, Warwolf 2
Bishop's close friend and wingman. An experienced pilot and F-15 flight instructor, his skills nearly rival those of Colonel Bishop. A mood maker, his smart-aleck attitude and quick wit on the ground contrast his often serious attitude in the air.
Service: French Air Force
Rank: General
Place of Birth: Undisclosed City, France
Age: 58
Commander of the allied forces, including the 108th Task Force. His demanding position requires he wear the hats of both NATO military commander, and diplomat to local government bodies. Despite his superior rank, La Pointe holds Colonel Bishop's word and actions in high regard.
Service: United States Air Force
Rank: Major
Place of Birth: Washington, United States
Age: 34
A bomber pilot. She is assigned to operations in Africa at Lt. Colonel Bishop's request, where she pilots the AC-130U "Spooky 01". Independent and assertive, she is also free spirited and often jokes with Captain Gutierrez as if they were rival siblings.
Product Description
The limited edition comes with the following exclusive content:
- Video Game DVD
- Video Game Soundtrack
- Notebook Signed by the Development Team
- Exclusive Aircraft Digital Content
Never before has aerial combat been so fast, so in-your-face and so vicious. It's time to set the sky on fire.
The demanding Project Aces development team at Namco Bandai Games Inc. in Japan weren't satisfied. They wanted more from the series. They wanted planes that tore apart limb from limb right in front of your face, spewing their oil lifeblood across the sky. They wanted to scrape the streets and dodge the steel skyscrapers of real world cities at blistering speeds, in an enthralling war drama that spanned the globe with a web of intrigue. They wanted players to pick up the controller and become deadly combat pilots in seconds, pulling off breathtaking kills at impossible speeds, and doing battle online in a multiplayer sky littered with fiery supersonic debris. What they wanted was steel carnage in the sky.
The result is not a sequel in the multi-million selling smash hit Ace Combat series, but a complete rebirth, a phoenix from the ashes flying at three times the speed of sound. The Project Aces team is building Ace Combat: Assault Horizon from the ground up, with new technology fuelling their passionately realised vision of a game that puts players in the dark heart of the fight like no aerial combat game has done before.
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Customer Reviews
When a developer takes your cherished game and makes radical alterations, it can be very hard to swallow, particularly if they remove feature X or Y that was your favourite part.
However, I don't have any baggage as I approach this one as I have never played an Ace Combat game before.
In fact I may have long experience with other game types, but I'm not much good at flying games.
The only reason I picked this up is because I wanted something different to the usual FPS or third person shooter that is so much the norm on consoles these days - to be frank, I'm getting bored with them.
What I found in this game was one that plays well for a rookie like me, makes a great change of pace/genre/gameplay (what I was looking for), and is great fun for a flying newbie.
The dog fight mode/ground strike mode plays into that, making it easier for me to get into and enjoy the game but still offering a challenge: yes it is possible to lose the "lock".
It has happened to me on several occasions (although maybe because I'm not very good??!!) and I expect this to be much more common on the harder levels.
Sure, the story doesn't make much sense and is as predictable as a Hollywood action movie.
It's fun enough to watch the characters interact and take a breather from the action, but at least you don't have to: you can cut them short by pressing a button and I'm sure I'll be doing that on subsequent runs through.
...and yes, I'm sure I'll be playing it again: I suspect I will do at least one run through on a higher difficulty and will also pick out my favourite missions for replay too.
I'm also itching to try it out on with the 'proper' flight controls.
As to the different vehicles such as the choppers, bombers, etc, I have found them a refreshing change of pace.
No it's not the most realistic flight game around, but it's a good action experience that looks amazing (even my wife commented on the graphics).
In short, I would heartily recommend this title if like me, you want something a little bit different for a change.
If you are a series veteran, I'm sorry, I feel your pain!
But enough of the history lesson. Let's get on to what I think of this game...
I spent the best part of a year waiting in anticipation for this game to be released. I was so hyped I think I had it pre-ordered for like 6 months. It was £40 new, which I thought was reasonable for a game which I am going to spend hours and hours completing and perfecting, as I have done with many AC titles before it.
It arrived through the post. Looked great, even came with extra stuff like a music CD (which I later found out was not a complete version (you can get that online though)) and a F-4J code which lets you download said plane for use in the game. Okay, cool.
The game starts by taking you through the controls... Everything seems perfect until... "Dogfight Mode"? Okay, I thought, this can turn itself off when it likes, because this on-rails is not how I like my dogfighting. I like it freestyle, you know, the way it's always been in every other AC game before this one. I honestly did try to battle through the first mission without using this gimmick, but it was nigh on impossible. And guess what? You can't even turn the damn thing off. You're forced to use it throughout the whole game.
So it is impossible to finish this game without using the Dogfight Mode. That takes the fun out of this game, since it was the freestyle aerial combat which sold its previous games and earned it the fanbase which exists to this day.
There were several other types of missions, such as flying attack helicopters, which isn't all that bad, just boring I suppose. Door gunner missions is also all right, but feels like it was ripped straight from Modern Warfare 2, and not done up to that game's standard either. Fairly bland and repetitive. However the AC-130 missions sees you controlling the weapons of said aircraft, again as you would in Modern Warfare 2, but I actually found this is quite enjoyable compared to every other type of mission type available.
The problem is that the game has tried too hard to fit in with the current craze of modern warfare-style games (Modern Warfare Battlefield series come to mind), and has failed. Dismally. The story may be good and intriguing, but the story alone is not enough to help me pull through the missions considering my hatred against the on-rails-style dogfighting. I believe I reached mission 6 and said "enough's enough. I can't play this s**t any more." And that is coming from a life-long Ace Combat fan who considers himself to be a reasonably good player of the previous AC installments.
My verdict: Avoid this game like it would give your 360/PS3 AIDS if you even so much as slipped it into your machine's disk drive. You do not want it. If you really are thinking about giving the Ace Combat series a try, this is definitely not the best place to start. If you have a working PS2 and are looking for a good AC game to try out, go and pick up Ace Combat 4: Distant Thunder (PS2), Ace Combat Squadron Leader (PS2), or Ace Combat: The Belkan War (PS2). If not any of those, but you do have a 360, pick up Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation. Any and all of these would be a more enjoyable and worthwhile purchase compared to Assault Horizon. Squadron Leader is my personal favourite of all these, as I said earlier, but I wouldn't say no to any of them, either.
This game is not the Ace Combat fans know and love. If Namco heeds these words, and the words of many other like-minded fans who have spoken before me, they will not make this mistake again, instead sticking to the old formula which was fun and actually worked well. Yes, Dogfight mode really did ruin it that much. It has left me severely disappointed, and I commend anyone else who still considers themselves an AC fan after this painful hiccup in the series.
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