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Namco Bandai trademarks Ace Combat: Assault Horizon

Namco Bandai has recently passed a trademark for the name Ace Combat: Assault Horizon under the European trademark office for use in video game machines, discs and ROM cartridges, and more.

Namco Bandai's currently on the verge of releasing PSP's Ace Combat: Joint Assault and an iPhone Ace Combat has already been released. The latest console Ace Combat was Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation for Xbox 360 back in 2006.

Could Assault Horizon be the next console game? Only Namco Bandai's official announcement will tell

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Godmars2905130d ago

Would love to know why AC6 never hit the PS3. Namco left a lot of money on the table, especially in Japan.

Demons Souls5130d ago

Hope it doesn't suck like Ace Combat 6 did. That was the worst game in the series.

TheColbertinator5130d ago (Edited 5130d ago )

Hmm I actually agree.The story about Voychek,Shamrock and the Garuda Force resembled the crap plot of Independence Day.Not to mention Namco went too far with the DLC milk-athon that Activision has perfected.

http://xbox.joystiq.com/200...

"Let's get to it. The grand total of all of AC6's DLC (including new jets, skins, new missions and multiplayer modes) equals an astonishing $121.83 or 9,750 Microsoft points. Add to that the cost of the game itself and you've got a $181 "complete" AC6 experience. Outrageous! After doing the math, 1UP was able to ask NAMCO about the numerous / crazy expensive DLC and were given the standard we "pay very close attention to user feedback and comments", blah, blah, blah marketing runaround."-Joystiq

BadKarmaSutra965130d ago

You forgot the cost if you purchased the Ace Combat joystick bundle. Add about another $110. I must admit though, the flight stick is a nice unit. Worked great with IL-2 Sturmovik.

BadKarmaSutra965130d ago

I hope the next Ace Combat has less of the "kill the flying aircraft carrier" and "fly into the barrel of a giant cannon." But I've been told they're all kind of like that.

I wish someone would make a Over-G Fighters 2.

ExgamerLegends25130d ago

Totally agree. Ace Combat 5 was the best of the bunch. Best story AND story telling. More missions, better music, and it introduced the squad command feature to the franchise. It's like a different team made AC5....or did they?

And yea the whole "shoot down a flying behemoth" and weave through a tight space never gets old in AC. If you think otherwise YOU CAN GO DANCE WITH THE ANGELS MISTER!!!! LOL so lame.

Hope this new one hits ps3 and resembles AC5

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The Music of Ace Combat 5, Zero, & More Played by a DJ Will Brighten Your Weekend

Bandai Namco and Project Aces released another video in which DJ Sho Okada plays the music of several Ace Combat Games.

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The Korean Military Snuck Some Game Footage Into A Promotional Video

Trying to pull one over on eagle-eyed gamers is never a good idea.

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UltimaEnder2671d ago

Why is this not surprising... =P

wakeupcall42671d ago

don't forget the Pirates of the Caribbean music lol

Larryn2671d ago

I thought that background music sounded familiar!

gangsta_red2671d ago

And the Russians used Fallout 4 to hack the DNC.

The7Reaper2671d ago

Remember when North Korea used Modern Warfare 3 footage?

C-H-E-F2670d ago

LMAO, not even a newer bf, BF3 huh? really? Really guys.. so yall thought in the age of the computer that this wouldn't have been spotted, one of the most memorable scenes in BF3 lOl.

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So I Tried… Ace Combat Assault Horizon

GameGrin's Andrew Duncan writes: "Each edition of So I Tried… I will try a game that I have never tried before. Will I find something new to love? Will I find something new to despise? I'll take a full half hour, no matter how bad it gets or how badly I do, to see if this is the game for me. This time, I tried my joystick at Ace Combat Assault Horizon Enhanced Edition."

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DarkOcelet3547d ago

It was awesome , fast paced and had an excellent soundtrack and that Dubai level was really beautifully well done , my only issue is that dogfight made it a little too easy and those damn helicopter levels were annoying . But overall 9/10 , any fan of the genre will love it .

DaleCooper3547d ago

Great game! Really underrated. Fast-paced flight combat that felt great when knocking those enemies out of the sky. Plus it had the best quick time event ever.

SoapShoes3546d ago

Didn't like it, it was too Americanized... The only good ones were on PS1/2. After that.... Although Infinity is good, but it'd be better if it weren't f2p.

StockpileTom3546d ago (Edited 3546d ago )

I'm just going to put this out there for you and whoever else who were fans of the PS2 Ace Combat games...

Vector Thrust (PC) is a fan made spiritual successor to Ace Combat that looks pretty promising. I have played the Early Access version and I see huge potential in it.

It is pretty solid mechanics-wise and maps well to a DS4. (you have to use a DirectInput to XInput translator like x360ce)Feature wise it has everything you expect from an Ace Combat game and it has a built in scenario editor so community driven content might be a big thing as well.

It is $15 on Steam right now for early access but it is definitely not a complete experience just yet. I have had a few crashes so there are some stability issues but otherwise it runs great.

At first I wasn't too hopeful but they managed to pick up a publisher so the quality and the content should be trending upward very soon. At the very least people should keep it on their radar for its potential alone.

Hopefully when the final release is out the campaigns will be just as epic, tense, and emotional.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...
(the music here is just a mod I installed- they didn't rip it lol)

FrostyZipper3546d ago

This as well. Vector Thrust looks like it's shaping up well and if what you're saying about the devs getting a publisher is true then I think those of us who've been longing for the PS2 trilogy to make its way to the PC will be in for a real treat once it reaches the later stages of its development.

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StockpileTom3546d ago (Edited 3546d ago )

@LogicalReason

"like x360ce"

x360ce IS one of those programs the name is derived from "Xbox 360 Controller Emulator"
Since it installs a .dll to the game directory it is a run once and done solution.

While it doesn't support the touch input it gets the job done without the need for running an extra program in the background. I will keep the one you mentioned in mind if I ever need that extra input. (likely useful for an AMMORPG)

TuxedoMoon3546d ago

The only problem I had with this game was that prior to AC:AH, I played AC0,4,& 5 on the Ps2. I'm somewhat of a new fan too and I love the arcade style of AC, but AC:AH's events weren't as exciting as the stuff you had to to in AC5 and the dog fight mode was visually cool, but it felt more like it made the game easier. Also I couldn't pick any plane for any mission like in the previous games, the story was kinda boring (because they decided to be more realistic than), and the helicopter sections actually got me motion sick.

The music and the fun is there, but if you played the ps2 games, you might not like AC:AH as much as someone who is playing it for the first time. IT'S NOT A BAD GAME AT ALL! Just want to point that out. If you're in need of a game to fill that inner starfox gap, Ace combat is a must buy.

FrostyZipper3546d ago

I don't think Assault Horizon deserves most of the crap it gets from Ace Combat purists. Yes DFM made dogfighting a minigame and while some of the more scripted sequences (such as taking you through the dense cityscape of Dubai) were pretty jaw-dropping the first time, once you'd seen it, well you'd seen it. The helicopter side-gunner missions were also pretty cookie cutter and the AC-130 mission removed the excitement that Modern Warfare 1's such a phenomenal set piece by plonking down hard-to-see SAMs that - thanks to your inability to do anything about them once they're locked onto you - could and would shoot you down with relative impunity on anything above 'Normal' difficulty unless you knew exactly where they were placed and when they'd open up on you, which usually took a couple of deaths to work out.

I got into Ace Combat pretty late compared to most people (my first Ace Combat was the 6th game, which I fell in love with immediately following a curious demo download on the Xbox Live marketplace) but I've since found the rest of the games and have fallen in love all over again with a franchise that has, so far, retained its quality despite the lack of real evolution in gameplay (AH's experimentation aside).

It's rather funny in a way, because aside from a handful of moments in the campaign, it's not absolutely critical for the player to utilise DFM at all. As for the helicopter missions, with the exception of the side-gunner missions (which only occur a handful of times throughout the singleplayer) I found them rather enjoyable, and the only real issue I had with the story was the same issue I have with most modern military fiction: the emergence of a nation-less group somehow coming into possession of enough military hardware to challenge that of a developed first world nation without ANYONE seeing it coming.

It's not without flaws, but taking DFM (which as I've noted, isn't even essential all of the time) out of the equation, Assault Horizon is more Ace Combat, which - at least to my mind - has, and still is, a winning gameplay formula. And even now, I applaud Project Aces for at least trying to add something new to an already stellar formula, even if it didn't work as well as they no doubt hoped.

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