Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Review

[Anthony]

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Review by Anthony

PALGN Review: Top gun.

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[drinniol]

Reviews for this one have been all over the place, and the main complaint is that the DFM is unrealistic and takes out flying skill. In a game where you can carry, what, 50-100 missiles on a single plane. Yeah.

This is about the only one that didn't make it a Horrible Issue and devote 3/4 of the review to it, so you deserve a prize.

[Frozencry]

BUT THERE IS NO SKILL.
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[Anthony]

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon currently sits with an average of 79.40. But indeed, some reviews have been very scathing. I could easily rebut everything they have said, but I hope our review speaks for itself. Assault Horizon is so much better than HAWX and every other console flight game.

It's a shame that some people have focused so much on DFM. There are so many other great elements to the game. Even so, I thought DFM was a great addition. It adds a tense and confronting element to the game, which is missing in every other Ace Combat that I have played. I also think it does take skill. It is far from a win-all button, and it is very easy to loose an enemy once you have caught them in DFM. Counter-DFM maneuvers are also very tricky and take skill - especially in multiplayer.

And I really don't get why people are making so much of an issue of the missile payload. It is a video game. With the amount of enemies and target misses, you usually start wishing you had more missiles. I remember in first-person shooters dudes can carry, what, more than 10 weapons. Realistic? Yeah.

/rant
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