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The Ace Combat team is no stranger to anime-based games. Having previously worked on the Japan-only mash-up Another Century's Episode games, they've returned to the realm of licensed entertainment with Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces. This time, however, they're playing more to type, crafting a game that plays like an Ace Combat set in an alternate World War II.Based on the Mamoru Oshii's animated film of the same name, Innocent Aces is a prequel of sorts. Like the film (and the series of light...
Unique controls, original story, great anime cutscenes...
Not very much extra content, campaign is a little short, in-game graphics are a little bland...
One of the few flight sims currently available on the Wii, Project Ace’s anime-based dogfighter won’t revolutionise the genre by any means, but it’s a solid title with some of the best aerial combat currently available on Nintendo&rsquo...
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Directing a movie about fighter pilots and having Namco’s Project Aces team make the game of it is sort of like making an action flick and getting Infinity Ward on board, or a fantasy adventure movie with Square Enix handling the console translation. N...
Fast planes and loads of shooting, Planes look beautiful from all angles, Tight controls with GameCube controller...
Using remote as a flight stick an ambitious folly, Sounds robbed from other Ace Combat games, Environments aren't so pretty...
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The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces is based on the recent Mamoru Oshii animated film, The Sky Crawlers, which itself was based on The Sky Crawlers series of books by Hiroshi Mori. The game is a Wii exclusive and it is a budget title. Most people would pro...
Licensed games and budget titles are two words most gamers cringe at the mere mention of. Put them together and youre likely to have a frigid audience but The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces manages to surpass those pitfalls and be not just a good budget...
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It may be based off of a movie, but it does not sink to the depths that most of these games do. The people who bought the Ace Combat series have put a lot of time into making the controls work for this flight combat simulatorInnocent Aces OverviewThe...
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I have been wanting to play a great flight dogfight sim game ever since I had the excellent experience of pouring many hours into XBox's Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge. That game had the story, style, simple gameplay, and multiplayer functionality...
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Anime fans might well have heard of The Sky Crawlers before. Directed by Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor 2), the film is an adaptation of Hiroshi Mori's novel of the same name, and has been well received by critics and anime fans alike. Sky...
Fans of the anime will find a lot to enjoy, Aerial combat itself is solid, Uninspired visuals, Default controls are atrocious...
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Play.tm
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2013-04-01 07:32:53
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For a while now the Ace Combat series has been something of a standard bearer for the arcade end of the flight sim genre. So, when developers at Namco's Project Aces team announced they'd taken it upon themselves to leave their hugely popular brand asi...
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Based on the Japanese anime feature film, The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces, is a flight action game in which you can customise your planes and use the Nunchuck as a joystick to control your aircraft as you seek to destroy enemy jets. With the same team...
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gaming-age.com Updated:
2013-04-01 07:32:58
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One of the most inspiring impressions to walk away from a game with is that it had the quality of somehow being polite to the player. Some games do it without you ever feeling that way—in being either flexibly customizable in their play styles, or just...
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The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces takes a lot of inspiration from mission-driven flight games such as Wing Commander, the various X-Wing series games, and obviously Ace Combat (it was even developed by the same team that did the Ace Combat series), thoug...
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Imagine a world without war. Now, imagine the people of that world so used to war and the corporations so reliant on wartime profits, that wars are staged simply as spectacle to keep the cash revenue flowing. Can’t imagine that? That’s because it’s...
Decent graphics and audio effects, intense (and often unique) combat, customizable controls and cool airplane designs.
Premise is unbelievable, story mode is short and default controls could be more responsive.
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Awful default controls and a story based on an anime movie that's not very popular outside of Japan are not the ingredients that you expect to find in a good game, but The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces somehow works despite having these two strikes again...
Sharp classic controls let you ditch the motionsensing stuff for a gamepad, Loaded with nonstop aerial action, Good depth with lots of unlockable planes and gear, Nifty tactical maneuver commands lets you pump up the pace.
Default motionsensing controls are very difficult to use, Soso campaign storyline.
If you ignore the motion-sensing controls, then you'll find a lot of exciting aerial action in The Sky Crawlers...
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Visually Innocent Aces is a pretty solid Wii title. The screen can fill up with enemy and friendly planes flying all around, and the level of detail that was on screen during all of these instances was pretty impressive. Sure, the Wii is not as powerfu...
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One of the few flight sims currently available on the Wii, Project Ace's anime-based dogfighter won't revolutionize the genre by any means, but it's a solid title with some of the best aerial combat currently available on Nintendo's console. GamePro Sc...
Unique controls; original story; great anime cutscenes...
Not very much extra content; campaign is a little short; ingame graphics are a little bland...
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In this Wii exclusive flying game, young pilots uncover hidden corporate initiatives. The engaging storyline originates from a 2008 Mamoru Oshii directed anime film titled The Sky Crawlers (rated PG-13). That, in turn, is based on Hiroshi Mori’s serie...
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When I first heard about Innocent Aces, I scratched my head. It seemed like a bit of a strange title to turn into a flight sim, especially after hearing one of my writers over at Japanator discuss how the story is more about the characters and relatio...
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1up.com
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2013-04-01 07:33:13
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These days, a good flight sim is hard to find -- on consoles, anyway. But Namco's Ace Combat series has provided a steady stream of flight games mixed with that intangible Japanese, action game quality. Now, the same development team behind Ace Combat...
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A game that defies all the odds.As amazing as it might sound the Nintendo Wii is relatively void of many flight sim titles regardless of the obvious possibilities. The original developers behind the Ace Combat series are hoping to remedy that with thei...
Solid motion controls, Great core gameplay, Interesting story, Nice visuals...
Lacking coop mode, No online support, Motion control learning curve...
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After gunning and bombing through far too many uninspiring WWII flight combat games, it's easy to be sucked in by the way The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces almost teasingly rolls out a compelling far-out story of airborne warfare built around wingman cam...
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XSEED takes Wii fans on a flying journey to start the New Year, bringing the Production I.G. adaptation of Sky Crawlers to the video game realm. The story takes us into a new world found in peace but entertained by the thrill of dogfights and aerial wa...
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ign.com
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2013-04-01 07:33:18
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As a closet fan of both anime and flight games, Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces instantly had me interested from the first time random screenshots and snippets of info hit the web. When publisher XSEED – responsible for other Japan-to-US conversions such a...
After years of waiting for a truly standout flight game on Wii, XSEED has really delivered with Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces. Mixing in dozens of different mission types within the game's 18 stages, the Project Aces team puts a more arcade-inspired ani...
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Nothing like throwing off your flight helmet after a hard day's work. The Sky Crawlers is an anime film based on a series of Japanese novels. It is set in an alternate history where armed conflict has been eliminated. In an effort to remind the world...
Exciting gameplay, Unique controls, Good story...
Short campaign, Story doesn't make much sense unless you are already acquainted with the mythology...
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Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces fully captures the antithetical beauty of aerial warfare and matches it with an engaging story about wealth, greed and their reliance on death. Flaws aside, at $29.99, it’s the best flight game on Wii.
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Pros: Original control scheme, a wide variety of planes.Cons: Useless story, no proper multiplayer. Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces, is a flight combat game that soars like an eagle, breezing through the clouds, swooping and looping and gliding effortlessl...
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