Ace Combat series: I love and I hate...

Tmuk · Post by **Tmuk** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:02 pm 0

I've just rememberd that I had the first one in the series on the PlayStation and loved the battle right at the end of the game. Didn't realise the series had carried on after Ace Combat 2 (as I think the sequal was called?).

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:17 pm 0

This ones gone on my 'buy,now' list. I do love a good bit of flying and shooty and if they can do 32 player online - so much the better.

Terrypantsman · Post by **Terrypantsman** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 4:28 pm 0

Bog wrote:
Rhythm wrote:Looks excellent. If the dollar-to-pounds ratio works the same as it did with the wheel, the flight stick bundle and game could be gotten for as little as Â£80. And the controller's wired so you'll be able to use it on the PC too \o/

My credit card just bled.

Um Ok so...

1. This is going to be an X box live multi - player game with team squadrons of 16 vs 16.

2. arcade handling, next gen visuals , and voice communication. (KSSHK...Red leader standing by...KSSHk)

3. You can GET A FLIGHT STICK AND THROTTLE.

4. And From this thread most Ace Combat games are usually good then.

sooooo when is this out exactly??

I'm going to have to build a bloody cock pit now from and old car bucket seat and some plywood from the garage and a bunch of old tv's and videos hmmm... re design living room

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 4:54 pm 0

I think the US release is in November.

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 4:59 pm 0

Bog wrote:F-ZeroOne! You mention "gun kills"

The guns. Are they "real", or are they "wrong?" By "real", I mean going "phrrrrrp" as heard from inside the cockpit and spewing 4,400 rounds per minute (for an F-15), or do they go "dakkadakkadakka" and chunk out 600 rounds per minute, making Bog unhappy?

In the Ace Combat series, so far, guns are all pretty much the same. I have to admit to being a little wimpy and not yert playing on hard, so I don't know if the planes have different ammo loads per plane. All the guns appear to be vulcan-type weapons, though the gun positions are, AFAIK, modelled correctly.

The A-10 gun is a little disappointing; you really want it to be the sound and act of the Charge of the Horses of Death Descending Upon The Heathen, but its just like all the other guns. Even the damage is the same. As ever, with the Ace Combat series, it more how it feels to play than how accurately it models the real thing.

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 3:49 pm 0

As I'm upgrading to an XBox 360 shortly, I've been playing The Belkan War over and over again to unlock as much as I can. Completed the campaign (on normal - yes, still a wuss) as a Knight, Mercenary and Soldier, and unlocked the Wyvern, Morgan and Falken fighters. I've got a hangar bay that looks like the prototypes section of the Skunk Works now...

Favourites:

Typhoon: all Typhoons, everywhere, should be painted black.

F-15 MTFD: possibly the best all-round "conventional" aircraft in the game, great at air-to-air and mud moving.

Wyvern: I'm convinced the only reason this aircraft was made was because it looks really, really, really cool in the replays. Variable geometry rudders. Someone should do that.

Portland · Post by **Portland** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 9:22 pm 0

RageMatrix · Post by **RageMatrix** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 9:38 pm 0

I'm so excited by the prospect of this that I almost popped out a nugget. Must remember where I put my Top Gun soundtrack CD...

The furrrrther on the edge
The hotteeeer the intensityyyyy
Hiiiiiighway tooooo the daaaanger zone!

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 10:21 pm 0

Hopefully, the X-Box 360 will allow us to use our own music in the game. In which case you can dump your Top Gun soundtrack off at the nearest Scientology office, 'cos...

... I'm going for the Kanno.

Aeria Gloris, Aeria Gloris... and You know how to get eternal life/in the center of the lightning-speed waltz/Feel your soul cut by a rusty knife/as you head for the self-destructive edge...

RageMatrix · Post by **RageMatrix** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 10:44 pm 0

F-ZeroOne wrote:Hopefully, the X-Box 360 will allow us to use our own music in the game. In which case you can dump your Top Gun soundtrack off at the nearest Scientology office, 'cos...

... I'm going for the Kanno.

Aeria Gloris, Aeria Gloris... and You know how to get eternal life/in the center of the lightning-speed waltz/Feel your soul cut by a rusty knife/as you head for the self-destructive edge...

Everyones a critic

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 10:48 pm 0

Its all those Macross AMVs that use nothing else.

Though, having said that, one of the two best Macross AMVs I ever saw used it.

The other used Information High...

Rhythm · Post by **Rhythm** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:27 pm 0

Demo up on Live.

Fuck. Me. Sideways.

ThetaReactor · Post by **ThetaReactor** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:14 am 0

I'm finding myself leaning back during the hard turns

. The surround sound is fantastic, too, as you gun down the bad guys and fly through the wreckage...

THEDARKPRIESTCYRIC · Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:03 am 0

I downloaded the demo when it went up this morning, ended up playing it for like 2 and a half hours

I haven't played Ace Combat before, seems like this is going to be a must buy for me... the flight sticks are just the icing on the cake

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:44 am 0

Still waiting for my modem/router magic box thingy to arrive...