smilydude135016d ago (Edited 5016d ago )

Certainly did.

I'm looking forward to this, although I hope they greatly improve the ground textures. The helicopter parts look nice, I hope it works well the the jet combat and neither of them are neglected/half-assed. Also it seems to be set in the world this time, so that's interesting.

jerethdagryphon5016d ago

yea not sure how i feel about that i got hawx for real world i want my japenese storylines with plausable superweapons and beutiful ghostly orchestral background music

Avto5016d ago

This for me was a big surprise I thought they were making a PSP game. I love Ace Combat games, I still play Zero and the 5th one, good games.

Omega Archetype5016d ago

Definitely, and it's about f'ing time.

Ace Combat 6 was pretty meh IMO, hope this one is much better. Finally PS3 owners get an Ace Combat game as well. That's the system I'll likely get this game on (if it's good that is.)

ThanatosDMC5016d ago

AWESOME NEWS!

I did not know that this game was coming. Ace Combat > HAWX

I just hope they copy the co-op in HAWX though.

bruddahmanmatt5016d ago

I thought this was an announcement for a new Ace Combat game, not HAWX?

I've been waiting so long for a new Ace Combat game ever since "The Belkan War". Never played "Fires of Liberation" as I don't own a 360 but I heard that while it was ok, it wasn't nearly as good as the PS2 era games (i.e. Shattered Skies, The Unsung War, The Belkan War).

The trailer for this game does look interesting from an action standpoint, but it doesn't look like Ace Combat. I loved the "near future" setting of the PS2 games which took place in a fictional version of our world. Ace Combat had a very distinct "Japanese" feeling about it. The gameplay was almost straight arcade but what I absolutely loved about the PS2 era games (and even the Japanese version of Electrosphere for the PS1) was that while they're "arcade flight games" at their core, the storylines had so much thought put into them and were so well written. Ever since AC04 (AC3 if you're talking about the Japanese version) the series has always been about a great, thought-provoking story. I really hope that Namco doesn't F this one up.

EvilBlackCat5016d ago (Edited 5016d ago )

ACE COMBAT DEVELOPERS

IM FREAKING FUCKING TIRED OF YOU GUYS GIVING ME THE SAME BULLSHIT!

GIVE ME A DAMN SIMULATION EXPERIENCE !!!!

Over G suck on Graphics but fuck you up in multiplayer and realism dumb fucks!!!

I PLAYED ACE COMBAT 6 only 6 times online and finished 4 times and guess what... i played OVER G for 3 straight years online.

SO BRING A DAMN SIM THIS TIME and the damn option to use my Saitek X52 !

Yup i feel better now

jerethdagryphon5016d ago

ace combat is not a simulator never has been it is a flight arcade game

its meant to be pick up and play without worrying about elevatorcontrolls or thrust to weight ratios if you want a sim theres pleanty outhere

falcon 4.0 for instance

ThanatosDMC5015d ago (Edited 5015d ago )

Ace Combat was never a sim game... i mean, how the hell can you store 100+ missiles in a plane. Not to mention lasers, space, AI, etc.

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KiasuKiasiMan5016d ago (Edited 5016d ago )

Finally and its multi-plat for the PS3 and 360, so finally an Ace Combat for the PS3.

But I'm curious why not Ace Combat 7: Assault Horizon. Unless this is a spin-off or something.

EDIT: A trademark for the name appeared in April http://www.siliconera.com/2...

VoodooHack5016d ago

Note that the video names a real world location (Miami). And there's seems to be a more realistic feel to it based on the Gamespot video. My guess is that it's reboot of the series and not a true sequel.

Godmars2905016d ago

So no crazy flying fortresses?

Fail? Granted you get a helicopter and blow stuff up, but I still want some anime-themed levels too.

ndibu5016d ago

Fox 2 fox 2! Finally! Thought this game was destined to be released only on psp, this is awesome news for me

jack_burt0n5016d ago

reminds me of ace combat 1 looks good.

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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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UltimaEnder2662d ago

Why is this not surprising... =P

wakeupcall42662d ago

don't forget the Pirates of the Caribbean music lol

Larryn2662d ago

I thought that background music sounded familiar!

gangsta_red2662d ago

And the Russians used Fallout 4 to hack the DNC.

The7Reaper2662d ago

Remember when North Korea used Modern Warfare 3 footage?

C-H-E-F2661d 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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DarkOcelet3538d 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 .

DaleCooper3538d 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.

SoapShoes3537d 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.

StockpileTom3537d ago (Edited 3537d 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)

FrostyZipper3537d 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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StockpileTom3537d ago (Edited 3537d 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)

TuxedoMoon3537d 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.

FrostyZipper3537d 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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