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 Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 11:32 pm Post subject: Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation Review |
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| Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation Review by Matt |  | | 360 Review: No Top Gun jokes. Honest. | | [View Article] |
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| Quote: | | though the eighth if you count Belkan War and Skies of Deception |
It's actually the ninth Ace Combat game, there was Ace Combat Advance on the GBA as well.
Personally I really enjoyed this. It's short, but there's enough to unlock that you're probably going to replay it more than once and the multiplayer aspect is great to finally have. The scope of the levels themselves is huge, with far more stuff happening at once than has been done before. I was a little upset that they cut the aircraft list down so much, but in the end it doesn't really matter that much. I also really appreciated that they put in a proper checkpointing system. The last game in the series I played was AC5, and that was beyond irritating, especially the last level where you would screw up, plow into the wall of the tunnel, and have to do the whole thing over again including the unskippable cutscenes at the start.
The story, though, I thought was pretty poor. The in-game story and the cutscene story seem extremely disconnected until right at the end when they're forcibly combined. I really liked the in-game plot, but I didn't give two shits about the cutscene plot at all. The characters were boring and uninteresting, the voice over utterly dire, and the model they built for that kid made her look like some kind of evil mutant space alien that wanted to push you down and chew your eyeballs.
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Many Aussies playing the multiplayer? I want to get this game, but if I am going to have to wait ages for a multiplayer session, I might wait until it's cheaper and just play the SP campaign.
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im def considering this i havent played a flyer in a long time. Now with HD graphics it has become more appealing, im not sure i want to pay the full price tag though.... 
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Man I remember Ace Combat back on the PS used to be one of my favorite games. I'm actually considering buying this title, the graphics look superb and the game itself sounds like alot of fun.
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This is my first Ace Combat game, I've really enjoyed it thus far, though I'm disappointed at the short length of the campaign. I don't care about multiplayer so once the story is over I doubt I'll keep playing...
There are a few things I don't like about it; the Operations seem too close together, so you end up activating several at a time, which can be a real pain, having to accomplish several goals at once. The downloadable planes are so expensive- at the moment there is about $30 worth of them! The only one I'll get is the Idolmaster SU-33 for the sake of having it. Oh, and the fact it's region locked- aussie retail prices are HORRIBLE!
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| Quote: | | It's actually the ninth Ace Combat game, there was Ace Combat Advance on the GBA as well. |
Yeah, but that was a vertical shooter - the eight games referred to all play rather similarly.
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i'm gonna get this for christmas, i've heard nothing but good things about the game so i'm looking forward to it
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Can you play multiplayer offline?
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Sorry to revive a 'dead' thread, but when, if ever, is this scheduled to return to its traditional home on the Playstation?
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| lordofthesheep wrote: | | Sorry to revive a 'dead' thread, but when, if ever, is this scheduled to return to its traditional home on the Playstation? |
Yeah, a PS3 version is coming out sometime this year apparently. Getting the Bioshock treatment.
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