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Product Description
The Next Generation of Warfare Demands The Next Generation of Aces! With over 10 million copies sold worldwide, the ultimate flight action series soars onto Xbox 360! This fall, the entire Flight Action genre will be single handedly redefined as Ace Combat 6, the latest in the No.1 flight action series arrives on the next generation console system to continue its absolute domination. Players can get in the cockpits of their favorite authentically detailed combat air… More >>
Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation
02/14/2010 at 5:06 pm
In typical Ace Combat fashion, this title continues to push the envelop of visual realism in flight simulators.
If you have enjoyed previous Ace Combat games you will not be disappointed by Fires of Liberation. If you haven’t ever played an Ace Combat this one is certainly a great place to enter the series.
While gameplay is solid as usual and missions vary in style and objective, one can’t help but focus on the absolutely stunning visuals.
Ace Combat has always been known for great realism in its aircraft, but in this iteration the developer really put the focus on making the landscapes come to life. I have yet to play a console flight sim that provides such an immersive experience as Ace Combat.
On the other hand, (also typical of the series) the story is a cheesy mess of melodramatic fluff. You’d be better off skipping each cutscene and focusing on the gameplay.
My only real complaint is that level difficulty is inconsistent. One mission will be moderately easy followed immediately by one that is near impossible. Then you’re back to easy again. I believe this is due to the fact that Wingman support is utterly useless, which makes any level with a lot of enemy planes that much more challenging.
In one particularly frustrating mission your comrades continually chime in over the radio to let you know that one or more of a dozen enemy fighters has a missile lock on you but they neither attempt to take out your pursuers (cover command) nor attack the target objective (attack my target command) whilst you shake the bogies off your six. There may be “friendly” planes occupying the sky with you but for all intents and purposes they are just spectators. As a side note, the lack of worth of your wingman is evidenced by an achievement you can earn for his taking out a mere ten enemy targets by your command, meanwhile you might eliminate 40-50 targets in a single level.
In the end, Ace Combat 6 is good for 8 or 10 hours of single player fun, not to mention multiplayer action.
Rating: 4 / 5
02/14/2010 at 5:52 pm
So, the ACE series finally comes to the next generation. It has been a long wait, that in my opinion was worth it.
My favorite part of the whole game so far ( I am still playing it) is the abality to call for either Allied Attacks or Allied Cover. As in the past it would always be up to you to take out everthing either land, sea, or air. Now you actually get help. And they actually take out stuff or cover you if you are getting fired at.
The planes are the same as all of the other Ace Combat games, graphically they are sharper but nothing new. I will say that your planes are now more equiped with a huge payload of special weapons and regular missles, not the case in the old games. If you run out of ammo you can go back to the base and restock up, which was not the case in AC5. I am glad they brought that one back.
Missions are alot better than before, here you actually get to fight for longer than five minutes, I would say on average the missions last anywhere from 20-30 minutes, I am only on mission 10 so I dont know how many missions the game has.
Graphics are much imporved from the old series. When your plane gets hit by a bullet for example a little amber will be burning where you got hit for a moment, then it smolders out. Explosions are awesome, and the terrain looks pretty real.
As a fan of the series I am very happy, and I can see for me, this game will have a good replay value to it.
Story line, what can I say it’s Ace Combat they have never been known for a great storyline, they could have done alot more with this, I thought they would seeing how it’s next gen and all.
Rating: 4 / 5
02/14/2010 at 6:45 pm
Ace Combat 4 in my opinion was the best game of all the Ace Combat series. It had a (mostly) great story, terrific graphics, amazing music and the gameplay flowed together to give the player a movie-like experience. Awesome.
Not so much for Ace Combat 6. The graphics overall are spectacular, naturally, and flying around on a big screen TV in high def is seriously fun stuff. Unfortunately that’s about all it has going for it. With a near-incomprehensible storyline with uninteresting characters, gameplay that is at times too easy and then almost impossible, and wingmen that are just plain useless, it’s a chore to push through the entire game.
The Good:
* Visuals. Awesome!
The Bad
* Terrible story – like, really bad. Awful bad. Two or three cinematics in and I was completely lost, and didn’t really care to back up and figure it out. The dialogue is over-the-top cheesy and tries way too hard to sound patriotic or remorseful.
* Missions – Too long and too expansive. Fighter pilots in reality work in teams, but not here. Where in reality a wingman would get enemies off your back, and other squadrons would accomplish mission tasks, the pilots in the air here (especially your over-chatty wingman) are just plain useless. I know the developers wanted to make a “massive, multi-layered combat environment”, but such environments usually have more than one aircraft feverishly running and gunning.
* Unkillable A.I. – The “Strigon” squadron is as easy to kill as shooting at gnats with arrows. But the good news, don’t even try and they’ll be miraculously defeated anyway…
* Danger alerts – Oh my good lord, these are so annoying!!! Yes, I know there’s yet another missile chasing me that I’m just going to out-run anyway, quit the beeping! Quit the announcements! If my wingman isn’t going to help out back there, just shut up.
* Music – doesn’t matter to some, but it’s a personal pet peeve of mine when the music sucks. Ace Combat 4 for some reason had an amazing score put to it, but not this one.
Even with the bad though, just playing a high-def, arcade-style flight sim with unlimited missiles on a big TV is worth the included garbage.
Rating: 3 / 5
02/14/2010 at 7:07 pm
if you have played any AC games before you will like this game. story is dumb so i always skip it. i beat the game on normal now working through expert. played online for a little while. its really fast game play online.
the one thing that is driving me crazy is the fact that i pre-ordered this game a month ahead of time as well as COD4. i got the game almost 2 weeks after the game was released. i will NEVER PRE-ORDER AGAIN FROM AMAZON!! COD4 has an estimated ship date 4 days after the release. i pre-ordered GH3 but picked a different company and got the game the day after the release. i dont understand why its taking so long.
Rating: 4 / 5
02/14/2010 at 9:39 pm
This is a great game, but the story is simple, too simple. The plot is sometimes touching, but mostly plain.
The graphic is fantastic. I’ll recommend to get a widescreen LCD, the graphic detail will look amazing.
Rating: 5 / 5