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Well that was unexpected. Before popping Ace Combat: Assault Horizon into the old Xbox, I was expecting yet another generic air combat sim/arcade hybrid that would appeal to a loyal yet dwindling niche audience. But what I got could almost be called a...
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Set in 2015 Assault Horizon takes us to the skies and drops us into the middle of a conflict between an international peace keeping force and East African rebels. We take the role of Colonel Bishop, a seasoned pilot, whose past experience has left him...
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Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Despite the cheese factor, the latest Ace Combat game to arrive on the XBox 360 is actually quite a decent arcade flight simulator that not only just includes jets but also helicopters! Bring on the gunships! With that said...
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Ace Combat Assault Horizon is like a love letter to the idea of fun. The delivery method for said letter is to fold it into the shape of a paper F-22 Raptor, attach jet engines, machine guns, and missiles, and then run up a hill while making “neeeeeroo...
DFM is the bleeding edge of fun, Great variety of missions, Super epic music makes everything even more exciting...
Missions aren't as open as Ace 6, Vets may think it's been dumbed down, Regenerating plane health?...
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Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is the latest release in the long running air combat series with a significant fan following. Focusing on story and gritty combat, this latest release does well to provide quite a few hours of entertainment to all fans of ac...
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I'll be the first to admit that I am an Ace Combat junkie. I have been ever since I played the second title for my Playstation back in 1997 and have always found myself looking forward to the next installment once I finish the current released title...
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Updated: 2012-01-25 05:24:12
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Flight games have been marginalised of late, successfully swept aside in the FPS's march to global dominance. One series is mounting a fightback with a fleet of cutting edge aircraft and smart weaponry. Namco Bandai has urged Project Aces to reworked t...
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Mission-based flight games are a classic genre, home to celebrated games such as the X-Wing and TIE Fighter titles of the 90s and many others that entertained players by letting them loose in a large battlefield and giving them a mix of dogfighting act...
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Assault Horizon definitely tries to take itself more seriously than previous Ace Combat games, with New York Times Bestselling military author Jim Deflice behind the game's story. You are a part of the UN Task Force that's on a mission to stop the gro...
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The combat flight sim genre is in a pretty good state these days. While PC owners can enjoy the IL-2 Sturmovik games for that excellent full sim experience, console owners have still seen a slow but steady flow of arcade air combat games in recent ye...
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ign.com
Updated: 2012-01-25 05:24:12
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It didn't hit me until I started getting into the current game, but it's been too long since we got an Ace Combat. Some of you may have got your fix with the PSP version last year, but for console gamers (especially PS3 centric ones), Ace Combat has be...
I’m not the biggest Ace Combat fan, so maybe that’s why the changes in Assault Horizon intrigued me. It’s not as well polished as previous games, but this new step is more interesting than if it had been yet another Ace Combat game. Dogfights are excit...
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It’s been a long time since we‘ve had a console installment in the Ace Combat franchise. For a while I thought that Namco had surrendered to Ubisoft’s HAWX franchise, but finally, for the first time on PS3 and Xbox 360, we get to strap into a next-gen...
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In Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, the last action you take is not to participate in a thrilling dogfight, or to victoriously soar through the clouds in an F-14 Tomcat. No. The very last thing you do in this airborne action game is to press a button to pu...
Online play is fun, Lots of explosive audiovisual spectacle, Impressive recreation of realworld geography.
Dogfights require little skill, Chopper missions require little skill, Onrail missions are long and boring, The entire game is all flash, no substance.
With Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, a respected series takes a nose-dive...
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Boys have always had a fascination with planes. As kids, we'd hold our arms to either side and roar about the garden. We'd jump off furniture, mimicking take off. We'd bank, circling around swing sets; we'd swoop, ducking under climbing frames; and we'...
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The Ace Combat games have always fallen on the arcade side of the air combat genre concentrating on fun rather than authentic simulation. At the same time, realism has always played a big role in the experience what with the immaculately recreated lice...
The Ace Combat games have always fallen on the arcade side of the air combat genre concentrating on fun rather than authentic simulation. At the same time, realism has always played a big role in the experience what with the immaculately recreated lice...
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Combat-based flying simulators aren't exactly common in the current gaming landscape. Sure, you get two or three a year, but truly blockbuster games in this genre are unfortunately few and far between. Fortunately, the Ace Combat series has become know...
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Ace Combat Assault Horizon, the newest Ace Combat flight-shooter title in the long-running franchise, has flown under the radar of the hotly contested “my shooter game is better than your shooter game” war between Call of Duty and Battlefiel...
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The latest edition to Namco Bandai's hybrid arcade-simulation flight series takes to the skies with a slightly different approach to previous games, placing a firm emphasis on accessibility, Call Of Duty-style set-pieces and frenetic multiplayer skirmi...
Nice change of pace with variation of missiontypes, Dogfight mode adds balance, Strong multiplayer community and rewarding online perks...
Campaign missions can drag on unnecessarily, Helicopter missions lack the impact they could have had. Room for improvement, though, Limited multiplayer modes...
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1up.com
Updated: 2012-02-05 08:52:02
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It's impossible to deny the influence of Call of Duty. Every game publisher has analysts and consultants whispering in their ear: "Make your game more like COD and your Metascore and sales will shoot through the roof." It's clear that Namco Bandai heed...
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