Ace Combat: Assault Horizon PlayStation 3

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Product Details

Released on 14-Oct-2011

• Ace Combat: Assault Horizon confirmed for PC

  Namco Bandai's acclaimed arcade flight sim Ace Combat: Assault Horizon will finally take flight on the PC, the publisher has confirmed. The game will land in UK shops early next year.

  Counting arcade cabinets and mobile games, Assault Horizon is the sixteenth entry in the long running series and marks an attempt to please both hardcore shooter fans as well as newcomers to the franchise. With a globetrotting storyline written by best-selling military author Jim DeFelice, the game has been described as an aerial Call of Duty

  The console version, released last year, certainly tickled the critics. "Ace Combat Assault Horizon walks that dangerous line many modern franchises are attempting these days: make an old formula more accessible and streamlined without alienating the hardcore fans" said Games Radar's 90% review. Games Master UK gave it 87%, hailing the blend of "gritty realism with an accessible arcade feel". Games TM offered an 8/10 score, praising the "undeniable thrill" that the focus on close quarters dogfighting offered. "A triumphant mix of masculinity and pastiche," read the review, "An excitable exercise in action gaming that moves the genre forward into exciting new territory."

  And now, finally, PC players will be able to see what the fuss was about. Ready the landing strip.

  Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is out now for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The PC version is due in early 2013.
  

  Published: 28/11/2012

• Editor's Choice Ace Combat Assault Horizon

  

  Published: 12.10.11

  A blood-hungry lot, us gamers like our FPSs spray-painted in the red stuff. But how do you introduce that red mist to the humble flight sim? Ace Combat: Assault Horizon for the Xbox 360 and PS3 reckons it has the answer machines that bleed, that's right, bleed...

  Taking out an enemy fighter splatters its 'blood' (aka oil) all over your POV just like an FPS. Framing this "blood"-letting is a hard-boiled "insurgents armed with a super-duper weapon" narrative that sees you pulling Gs across oodles of danger zones from Africa to Miami. So all very Modern Warfare-in-the-sky then...

  You get to fly in some serious military hardware as you hop from continent to continent from a door gunner (think 'copter-mounted bullet spitter; hapless AK47-wielding enemies on the ground') through to a stealth bomber (think 'cool bit from Modern Warfare where you quietly rain down death-from-above on troops thousands of feet below you'), and more.

  Making up the main meat of the game though are the fighter plane sections. You can expect the usual hellfire and panicked radio chatter as you zip across the skies and between skyscrapers, trying to direct a missile up a tango's back passage. What lifts the dogfighting out of the norm though is the surprisingly visceral Close-Range Assault system. This lets you get right up to the tailpipes of the enemy's plane and then try and unleash all manner of destruction on their bogey bottoms, as they twist and turn frantically, mere inches from your face.

  With full online play too, AC:AH offers a frenetic mix of sim and arcade action. And considering that this is the 12th game in the series, staying so fresh after 16 years is one hell of a (bloody) achievement.

  Published: 13/10/2011

• Ace Combat: Assault Horizon demo now available

  Namco Bandai is letting players worldwide have a go on Ace Combat: Assault Horizon with the release of a new demo.

  Available to download now on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, the single-player trial version of the new aerial action game will see players engaging in a jet fighter skirmish in the skies above Miami.

  The demo will show gamers the ropes of how to control their high-tech aircraft and introduce them to Markov, the game's villain, as well as the visceral aerial combat that makes up the game.

  Once this stage is complete, players can move on to a helicopter mission, in which they will be part of a rescue operation conducted by an elite Delta Force unit.

  The full version of Ace Combat: Assault Horizon will be released next month and will feature a blend of dramatic single-player levels and high-octane multiplayer combat.

  Published: 14/09/2011

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