The Ace Combat series has long been the console standard-bearer for flight-combat games, but as popular as those games have been, they've often alienated a certain segment of gamers because they venture into simulation territory. With Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X., gamers are given a bit of a reprieve from the simulation flying game, not quite to the arcade extreme of After Burner, but definitely to a degree that feels a bit more approachable than Ace Combat Six.
