Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation (Xbox 360) 
Features: - Original case
- Original Manual
Customer Ratings: - Too static. Not impressive. Poor controls and not enough variation, with graphics that are good but not excellent.
- A Vast Improvment Over ACE For The Commodore 64. I have been playing simulator games since the era of the basic tennis paddle game machines.
Things have moved on a lot since then and I must admit I found this game to complicated to play.
I suspect players under 30 would have no issues but I found it to complex leading to bordom. - So there is life after Call of duty 4!. So there is life after Call of duty 4! Its been all most a year now since I first bought call of duty 4 and no game has really stayed in the disc tray for longer than a few hours before its hurriedly replaced by COD4. Well I can tell you that this has all changed thanks to Ace Combat 6. I ve played on many games that try to offer such a brilliant plane experience. Games such as Blazing Angles 2 and Over G fighters but none come close. If you are reading these reviews to see which is the best for you , or you are pretty certain you want to buy it then go, go right now don t stop until you get to the shop! I can t stress enough how much this game has impressed me. Like another reviewer said the opening video to the game made my eyes really light up with fantastic clarity (and I don t have a HD TV).
Buy, buy, buy.
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- I went to the danger zone!. This Game is Awesome! just got it yesterday and i have to say, it is a spectacular flying sim. Whilst Geared towards an Arcade type expirience rather than a Simulator, it doesnt detract from the Expirience at all. The graphics are Amazing, from the missile trails to the heat waves made by your after burner. what is particulary impressive is the landscape that streches for miles and it looks fantasic.
The gameplay is easy to pick up and enjoyable. There is a slight tactical element to the way you fight as well. Each mission equpis you with a wingman, who can attack targets for you and cover your 6 (haha speaky fly lingo) Also you have the ability to use ground units and sea units to aid you in your mission, once you have helped them complete theirs. however this makes you think as to which units will help first. do you really want to attack a heavily armed fortress with the AA guns you helped or rather have support from the Tank battalion that are better suited to attacking ground targets? Its not as Indepth as battle for midway but a fun twist that puts it above your average flight game (ie overg fighters oh dear me)
Also you the option as to what payload you and your wingman will take with you for each mission and what plane you will use. if your mission is primarily a ground attack role it will easier to use the A-10 or Tornado GR4 armed with Paveway bombs and rockets, rather than the Raptor with Sidewinder Air to Air missiles. However if the mission is a mixed bag, why not get you wingman to attack the ground targets in the A-10 and you cover him from enemy aircraft with the raptor? Again another slight tactical element that adds to fun. You can Also purchase better weapons as you complete more missions meaning more whoopass for the enemy and higher scores for you.
The online play is similar to the singleplayer, with objectives to complete and dogfights to fight. However, plane classes dont seem to matter much as people usually just get the best planes regardless and then fly round in circles chasing each other. this can boring pretty quickly and isnt much fun with the full amount of players as you get shot from Everywhere. its much more fun as a one on one senario or 3 on 3.
Anyway overall a dman good flight game and thorughly enjoyable. wack on DANGER ZONE from topgun and smash on your aviators and get blasting!!! - As close to Top Gun as you re likely to get!. Ace Combat 6 has an opening video that, even rendered on a television without HD, will make you squirm with delight. They say that graphics don t make a game and I would agree, sure thing. But it certainly doesn t harm a game to look this good. Mid-flight it is incredibly difficult to tell whether you re still playing a game or watching an RAF training video. The photo-realistic mapping is superb from a distance, but admittedly vague and blurred when you re a few feet away from the ground. But when cruising at a couple of thousand feet, smoke trails from missiles pouring out of the sky, and snow capped mountains below your thundering wings it s hard to find a game on the X360 that looks this good.
Right......graphical gushing aside, AC6 has much to offer the roving eye of a potnetial buyer. The flight system is intuitive and very easy to pick up, the left stick controlling pitch and turn, the shoulder buttons for yaw, the right stick for camera and A and B for guns and missiles respectively. Sounds simple? Well it is. On top of that there s an even more simplified version of the control system for absolute novices but to be honest just playing through the helpfully thorough tutorials will have you doing barrel rolls in no time. The missions are fairly varied (although there aren t enough of them) and many of them have multiple parts involving different styles of aerial combat. There aren t as many planes in this version as there are in the also excellent PSP game but there s enough of a range to keep both dogfighters and rainbringers happy.
The story is pretty weak, the various strands ladling on heaps of poorly written pathos, but the in-flight banter between wingmen is excellent. You are made fantastically aware that you are part of a squadron and there is nothing quite as satisfying as targeting a large number of enemies for an allied attack and watching your flight partners deploy a huge number of missiles that streak through the sky all around you. Wherever you are the battles are constantly raging all around you, immersing you in the action.
Ace Combat is not a particularly deep game, it has to be said. But it does what it says on the tin, and it does it very well. The online play is excellent and brings the closest thing to an interactive Top Gun experience than ever before. You could do far far worse.
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Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation (Xbox 360) (ID: B000TTB7A4)
