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• gamedeal user

  Oct 27, 2014

  Not the Ace Combat I remember from my good old Playstation days unfortunately. Good game? Maybe. Pros: + Nice picture + Not a bad soundtrack + New game modes (bomber, heli) + Has quite a few arcade elements from the previous games + General idea of the "chase" is neat but Cons: - Forcing people to use "chase" mode against VIP targets is just a big NO - Durability of said VIPs is ridiculous - Gameplay in general feels boring somehow. Didn't happen for the AC games I've seen before. - CoD-style missions on the transp. heli minigun - Nanites-covered aircraft which can fix up themselves during the flight given a bit of time. Only works for players. - Barrel roll on the attack helicopters - Unlike previous AC games this one is set on real life Earth which brings politics into play =/ - Story and characters just don't make you feel for them. Or even remember them. As the game itself it's quite alright by the standards of modern gaming. But as AC game this one seems to fall flat on its face. As someone said this game is what happens when Michael Bay tries to make a flight sim. Feel free to try it during the sales time. It might appeal to you but I can't recommend this.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 21, 2014

  This is not like the original ace combat, your missles will never work against AI and your gun is the primary weapon that is useless unless you use the shooter on rails functionality. DO NOT BUY if youre a fan of the original Ace Combat series on PS2.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 28, 2015

  Oh, Ace Combat, why did you have to do this to me? I'm a big fan of the series, it's always been a blast to play, and yes there were low times, but never so much as this. Now, i'm not saying that the game is 100% terrible, it DOES have it's pros, but it has many more cons. I'll list them below; Pros: -The plane flight mechanics feel tight and responsive, sure they're not realistic, but we're not playing Ace Combat for realism, are we? We're playing it for the fun of doing crazy air stunts and gunning down people along the way. -The sound design is nothing spectacular, but it does it's job. The guns and the music are serviceable. Now, the old Ace Combats had some great soundtracks with some spectacularly memorable pieces. DO NOT expect those here. But, at the same time, it's not terrible. - The planes, while not being the highest texture quality you've ever seen, are pretty damn sexy. As are some of the spark and explosion effects, it does feel good to gun down planes out of the sky and watch them burst into flames. Cons: - The dogfighting system. Now, this one just relies on how you feel about the system. The dogfighting system allows you to lock onto an enemy and kep on their tail while firing at them. Alternatively, enemies can also do this to you. It does allow for some pretty cinematic chases, but ultimately after about three times it's already gotten old. What it actually boils down to is this: Lock onto the enemy. Wiggle stick a bit. Fire. Move on. Find new target. Lock onto new target. Wiggle stick a bit. Fire. Move on. It makes the game just a million times easier and means that instead of having these amazing dogfights where you're doing all these crazy stunt mid air, it just means that you see an enemy...and now he's dead. Most of the time. In order to combat you doing this, the game suffers from the same artificial diffficulty that a lot of plane games suffer from, whereby your target will just perpetually fly away from you. Get an enemy into your line of sight, and all of a sudden they pull up. And up. And up. And then you pull up. And up. And up. And now you're just spinning a hundred times before you can lock him into your dogfighting system. No skill needed. The next thing that annoys me is that the enemies can also lock YOU into the DFS (dog fighting system). It seems like a good idea, having to escape them, but it just boils down to doing exactly what the enemies do to you! You're chasing someone for aaaages and then BAM you're taken right out of it, so what do you do? Pull up until you escape. Now you can continue to chase NOPE YOU'RE BACK IN IT WHOOAAA CRAZY RIGHT? PULL UP PULL UP okay we're free again, now to finally chase that NOOOOOOOPE I'M BACK BITCHES. -The helicopter missions. They're awful. You fly around a horribly controlled helicopter, gunning down floor enemies and the occasional helicopter. That's it. The heliocopter controls terribly, as i've mentioned, and the whole missions are just uninspired. Use these boring weapons and this boring helicopter and shoot some cars. Woo. Do that multiple times throughout the game. -The turret sequences. OH? WHAT'S THAT? YOU DIDN'T LIKE THE HELICOPTER SEQUENCES? ALRIGHT WELL TELL YA WHAT, HOW ABOUT WE TAKE OUT THE WHOLE FLYING THE HELICOPTER THING AND JUST GIVE YOU A GODDAMN TURRET? Yeah, thanks developers. There's literally whole missions where you load in, and shoot a turret for about 20 minutes at some foot soldiers, and then move on. No variety, no challenge, no interest, nothing. Just point at people and click. You don't even get to move around on your own. Just point and click. Oh you wanna do something else? NOPE. POINT AND CLICK. -The voice acting. It's awful. There's not much to say except that everyone is just Mr Generic McGenericson or Mrs Genericson and her Generic babies. Maybe it's not even that bad, but seriously it's so generic that I think it dulled my senses. -The story. Spoilers, i guess, but hoestly just read any Tom Clancy novel and you've heard this story. While the game is voiced by Mr Generic Genericson, the story was written by his superhero alter ego; JERRY GENERICMAN! American hero. He's the hero we need. Other people. They're the heroes we need. Terrorists have a bad plot to blow up some people! Quick; call America! Oh no, a Generic non-american bad guy who wants to do bad stuff. WE STOPPED HIM JUST IN TIME. BUT WILL YOU MAKE IT BACK IN ONE PIECE? Yes. Roll credits. -The AC130 missions. Just fancier disguised turret sections. Overall this game was a huge disappointment. Are you a huge fan of the series and you're just ACHING for more? Sure, pick it up on sale and just slog your way through it. Only have a slight interest? Just don't buy it. There are plenty of other plane games that you could get that are ultimately better.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 28, 2015

  If you never played Ace Combat before, you may like this game. Fans like me of the other games will pretty much be dissapointed in it. Both parties however will find the DFM or Dog Fight Mode novel at first, but after a while its extremely repettative and sometimes just broken, and the sad part is you need to use DFM on some planes so the fly by sequence can run its course to progress in the mission, these planes are basically invincible unless you use DFM. Some cool fictional planes make a reapearence as bonus content like the CFA-44 Nosveratu from Ace Combat Six, but the special missiles are sadly nerfed, and somewhat useless in DFM. Pros: -Better diologue then previous cheesy anime inspired diologue, -The B-2 Bomber mission is pretty cool. -Game gives you the ability to customize the color of your fighter. -Previous games planes when shot down would just fall to the earth, now they expload and fall appart with oil and shrapnel and bits going every which way. Cons: -Broken and repetative Dog Fight Mode which is pretty much forced on you. -Attack Helicopter Missions are clumsy, and theres a sad lack of gunships to unlock and choose from. -Helicopter Gunner missions are extremely irritating, luckily there is only two of them. (then why bother have them in there at all) -C-130 mission is just in there for the hell of it. -Game is pretty short, even on Ace Mode. -Cinamatic Swquences are intrusive and annoying. -The first half of the game has little replay value because of tutorial popups which cant be turned off. -Multiplayer could be good if there were more players (not really the developers fault, but still an unfortunet fact.) TL/DR: Mediocre Ace Combat experince, give us a PC port of Ace Combat 6 or Infinity instead please...
• gamedeal user

  Oct 7, 2015

  Either you like it or not, Ace Combat Assault Horizon is a decently good game. For the fighter jet missions, Beautiful graphics, The fast paced in-your-face dogfighting combat is fun and makes you feel bada$$! Awesome soundtrack, definitely not dissapointed! It's a really fun game when you look at all the action alone and stuff. DFM (DogFightMode) mode is fun, but a bit OP, as all you have to do is lock in DFM and fire missiles. ASM (AirStrikeMode) is difficult, and you have to align the plane to face the targets to shoot them down with the machine gun if your missiles don't recharge fast enough. Personally I thought ASM is a bit dissapointing. The helicopter missions are a bit ehh, slower paced and can be a bit boring as your objectives are to cover the ground allies and shoot down cars and other helicopters. Guess how you dodge a missile in a helicopter? By doing a full sideflip lol. The helicopter missions are the ones I don't really enjoy that much to be honest. The angle isnt the best on 3rd person, so I suggest 1st. The helicopter door-gunner missions are also slower paced and can be a bit boring. Kinda laid-back gameplay. Also for the door-gunner mission, the camera is behind the soldier, which makes looking out a bit difficult. The objectives for the game is mostly: Cover you allies, Destroy enemies ASAP etc etc. If you do not do it in time, you will fail the mission. Also, the concept is the typical Americans vs Russian storyline, nothing too special. Overall: Pros: Awesome Soundtrack, Nice Graphics and fast gameplay is exciting. Flying and fighting jets is pretty fun. Impressive fighter jet gameplay. DFM mode is actually alright. Cons: Helicopter and Door-gunner missions are a bit stale Bad Angle for Door-gunner missions. Helicopter missions can get boring. Mostly same objectives. ASM mode is a bit difficult. Stale storyline. I would give this game a 6.5/10. So is it worth it???? For 20 bucks, No. On sale for 5 bucks, Yes. Could be like 4 or 3 bucks tho.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 26, 2015

  Let's get one thing straight. I have almost over 4,000 hours and 10,000+ sorties on this game on all 3 platforms combined. I know what I am talking about, thanks. This game's on sale right now as of Thanksgiving 2015, and I hope you'll read this review and take it to heart. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is Assault Horizon, NOT an Ace Combat game. This is 60 FPS Arcade Aerial Combat at its finest. Assault Horizon is a very under-rated videogame that was shunned by it's Ace Combat fanbase, worth it solely for the multiplayer experience. This was an experiment by Project Aces to solve the QAAM Spam from Ace Combat 6's Multiplayer. The game is niche, and Ace Combat players hate it for the DFM mechanic. I don't fault the Ace Combat players in that anything hurting their precious singleplayer experience is to be hated on immediately, but I can't blame them because DFM is so forced in the game that it hurts the overall feel of the game, but all you need is 1 playthrough. 3 max if you're 100%ing the game. If you're new to the game you'll see that the DFM mechanic is very forced in singleplayer, this is to prepare you for the main bread and butter of the game; Multiplayer. It's what Assault Horizon was built around, and it's a fine tuned experience. Unfortunately Multiplayer is deadish, only very few hardcore dedicated fans stick around, and the community is very small bringing in under 150ish aces platform wide, with about 15 of them being top tier, and about 5 out of that tier being active. I'd aliken AH to Quake in that skilled players online will dance circles around newbies, nobody wants to play when your only opponent is a guy that can beat you blindfolded, right? It's a game that's rewarding to master, and it shows. If you're looking to achievement hunt this game, get it and download a 100% save, then flesh out your achievements. If you're looking to buy this and play singleplayer hoping for JETS and AWESOMENESS, then pass it up. You'd be better watching a Youtube Let's play of it. Trust me, you're not losing much by missing out. If you want to play a 60 FPS arcade jetfighter game with some hard-core veterans, then download it and pop me a friend request. I'd be more than happy to play with you.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 6, 2016

  Hard to recommend but I like the game and enjoy playing it! Well after 4 hours I think that I am able to write a review. The story is about some bad guys who want to blew up the world and you have to stop them... but you do not play games like these for an 'amazing' story right? You play it to blew things up... and by that I mean a lot of things! The best thing about that.. it is pretty fun! The game controlls are at the beginning a little bit clunky, but after a while you getting used to it and after setting things up in the input-config file to enable the mouse support things aren't that bad. (You should also create a 'NAMCO' Folder inside your documents, otherwise the game won't save any settings!) Flying and fighting in a plane makes a lot of fun and it is pretty hard to fail. While blewing things up the soundtrack keeps pushing you so motivation shouldn't be a problem. Edit: The helicopter missions are annoying but there are luckily there aren't much of them & Missions are take a little bit too much time.. The graphics are for a PC Port. pretty good. (No eye-candy but therefore exist other games right?) I recommend to get this game during a sale for 5€ or 5$ or whatever currency you are using. Review may change in details while I continue the game.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 17, 2016

  I've always been a HUGE Ace Combat fan. to this day, I hold that Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War is one of the best games I have ever played. But this.... wow. It was alarmingly clear that they looked towards Call of Duty for inspiration. let me explain. in every previous game, the story took place in a fictional world. on top of that, the protaganist was always the silent type and was never truly identified or shown, allowing you to more easily insert yourself into the story and get immersed. in this game, you play as American McCheeseburger who's been dreaming of his own death over the skies of miami. as you can imagine and predict, that's a spoiler for a portion of the last mission. to make everything worse, the entire game is PAINFULLY predictable, playing into the "surprise! Russians are evil! SO ORIGINAL" trope. The story involves every single war cliche you can think of. Russians are evil, you're a war veteran, the woman suddenly loves you at the end for some reason, your wingman takes a missile for you, the Russians have WMDs and attack D.C. with them, etc. it's so poorly thought through that it was truly difficult to care in the slightest about any of it. Most of the gameplay isn't... horrible, I guess? the DFM takes away 90% of the control you're given and they force it on you throughout the game. the entirety of the end of game is so horrifically scripted, but the dogfights between are fun and true to the original games. (assuming you never use DFM that is) my main complaint is that they simulate difficulty by having the AI straight up cheat. they can pull manuevers insanely faster than you ever can, they have unlimited flares with no cooldown for them, they can straight up ignore your cannon making them impossible to damage until the game says they can be. but the cardinal sin of it all is that they introduced regenerating health for your aircraft. this was never in any of the previous games. not having it forced you to return to base and think about what you're doing more carefully. in this, you can just avoid damage until your plane suddenly decides it's not broken anymore. At the end of it: Go play Ace Combat 5. you will VERY quickly see why the Ace Combat communtity shuns this game.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 13, 2017

  (I also owned this Xbox360 originally) As an Ace Combat fan since AC 4 on PS2, this one is the worse in the series. So why am I recommending it? Well, it is still a fun game, when you get past the idea that this is not a true AC game. DFM (Dog Fight Mode) ruins the gameplay, it's a gimmick introduced to the game to help casual players to stay on enemies tails and makes the game look more cinematic... it kind of introduces cool cutscenes mixed with gameplay which are half the time scripted pursuits... which means you will shoot an enemy a ton, but they will not die until the game decides it's time for the ennemy to die. Also some enemies cannot be taken down unless you use this annoying feature. This is at it's worse at the last dog fight in the game where you keep pursuing this one ennemy and shoot him like 60 times but he keeps on kicking. Bosses are usually tougher in every Ace Combat games, but it breaks the immersion when you shoot the ennemy to hell, and he seems to heal almost as soon as you shot him, only to go down when the game script says "okay, we are in the location we want you to be so now the enemy can die"... it's a bullcarp frustrating fight. Speaking of healing... this game is clearly aimed at the casual crowd, as your plane heals itself as if it was freaking Call of Doody. Actually Ace Combat Horizon is what I consider the call of Doody of ace combat games. I still had my share of fun, but this campaign is super short compared to other games in the franchise. I played a tiny bit of the multiplayer On Xbox 360, and was frustrated to see they carried that DFM feature into multiplayer, I cannot wait to play AC 7 where I am sure they are removing this feature to play with players with actual dog fighting skills. In conclusion, a very short 4-6 hour campaign which still have some fun value, the multiplayer is pretty much dead, and a little something to pick up at a sale for 5$ if you feel bored or want to scratch that flyer's itch... though it will be a very light scratch.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 14, 2017

  Ace Combat in name only, and a master's course in anti-fun design. Ace Combat is a series known for it's excellent gameplay, epic plots, beautiful vistas, and freedom of movement; this game throws all of that out the window in a failed attempt to court the Call of Duty audience. The well established world and nations of Strangereal are replaced with a generic Russia vs. America plot that feels lifted right from Call of Duty, the beautful visuals and art direction have been replaced by sand, run through a brown-filter, and are now subject to constant shakey cam. The most aggregious change to the formula is the highly scripted missions. In previous games you were free to move around the map and prioritize targets as you saw fit. In Assault Horizon, you are given brief tastes of this freedom, only to have it constantly taken away as the game forces you into mandatory quicktime events called "dogfight mode". The only way to engage the majority of targets, or to escape from enemy persuit, is to complete these quicktime events; and in doing so it strips away everything that made Ace Combat so special. Shame they decided to port this turd to PC rather than 4, 5, Zero or 6; hell, even the PSP and 3DS games would have been better titles to bring to Steam.