Ace Combat Assault Horizon

1. 3 News

   

   2.0/10
   27 October 2011

   Ace Combat comes out feeling very ho-hum, same old, and does not offer enough to the genre to keep you coming back for more. One star. Read more

2. ButtonMasher

   19 October 2011

   There was time a few generations back when I loved flight sims, I was at home in the cockpit of an F18 or F16, whipping under the Golden Gate Bridge or taking out SAM sites in some god forsaken plain brown wilderness. Of course that was on an Amiga1200, C64 and various PCs. In fact my earliest recollection of an ACE game was on the C64, 8-bit split screen dogfighting with my father, at the time it was really something. Read more

3. GamingTrend

   8.7/10
   14 October 2011

   So every once in a while I get a title and I think “Ahh….man…maybe I should send this to somebody else to handle.” and that thought went through my … Read more

   • Non-flight items get a graphical overhaul, Solid soundtrack and voice work, Storyline is coherent, New Dogfight and Air Strike modes raise the cinematic bar, New aircr...
   • Lack of subtitles makes hearing in-flight story difficult, Coming out of ASM or DFM can lead to instant death if timed improperly, Too easy to accidentally drop precio...

4. GameSpot

   5.5/10
   11 October 2011

   But games aren't just meant to be seen; they're meant to be played. And Assault Horizon falls quickly into a rut because its entertainment value lies solely in the production elements. The gameplay? Hollow and repetitive. Everything has been reduced to a minigame. Need to win an air superiority mission? Initiate dogfighting mode again and again. Done deal. Have to take out a series of ground targets? Read more

   • Online play is fun, Lots of explosive audiovisual spectacle, Impressive re-creation of real-world geography.
   • Dogfights require little skill, Chopper missions require little skill, On-rail missions are long and boring, The entire game is all flash, no substance.

5. PALGN

   8.0/10
   15 October 2011

   The Ace Combat series, from developers Project Aces, has been at the pinnacle of aerial combat games on consoles for over ten years. The latest title in the franchise, Ace Combat: Assault Horizon , does away the fictional setting and Eastern deign template in favour of a real-world narrative and gameplay billed as ‘ Call of Duty in the air’. Read more

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