In Ace Combat's new Living Battlefield, players will choose which objectives to tackle first, and the results will affect the entire game. Hey, at least you have squads of allied planes, tanks, helicopters and warships to help you out, a first for Ace Combat. IGN's Jonathan Miller sat down with Ace director Natsuki Isaki to talk all things Fires of Liberation and the new direction his franchise is taking.
Full in depth interview at IGN.
Namco was founded in 1955 and merged with Bandai in 2005. Between that long period, they have produced some of the most memorable franchises in gaming.
Namco Bandai has dominated the air combat genre with "Ace Combat" for years without much competition, but Ubisoft is taking the series head on with the Tom Clancy-branded "HAWX" in March. A Ubisoft developer told MTV Multiplayer one of the big differences between the two games is the element of realism brought to "HAWX."
IGN reports, "Leading video games developer and publisher Namco Bandai Games America Inc. announced today that the Ace Combat series has surpassed 10 million units sold worldwide, and that Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system has surpassed one million units sold in North America. Fueled by consistently entertaining and accessible gameplay as well as cutting-edge graphics, the series has remained a critical and commercial smash hit since its introduction in 1995."
Always a big fav of mine the AC series, and this looks like a winner to me.
It looks like a photo realistic enviorment that sony droids said wasn`t possible on xbox 360.