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Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation (Xbox 360)

Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation (Xbox 360)
From Atari

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Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #194 in Computer & Video Games
  • Brand: Atari
  • Released on: 2007-11-23
  • Platform: Xbox 360

Editorial Reviews

Manufacturer's Description

The renowned Ace Combat series of video games is the undisputed king of the virtual skies. Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation brings new heights of intense aerial combat to players. With online play for the first time using Xbox Live®, players can now experience Ace Combat on a massive worldwide scale with a deep, action-packed multiplayer experience.

Bringing the long-awaited authentic Japanese role-playing experience to European gamers for the first time, Eternal Sonata takes full advantage of the Xbox 360 with its gorgeous graphics, 3D character models, and groundbreaking battle system. With a host of technically advanced and unique features alongside an enchanting and original storyline, Eternal Sonata will set new standards for RPG gaming.


Customer Reviews

As close to Top Gun as you're likely to get!4
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.

Exactly the same as the other games but more rubbish1
Too many tunnels to fly through, too many super weapons to destory. The line "go fly with an angel" is used all the time. They give you a ground attack objective but then the mission changes half way through to a dogfight meaning that the A-10 or Tornado are never used. How many times have ace combat used a desert based tank destroying mission that lasts 20+ minutes? None of it was as cool as Shattered Skies, Arkbird, Stonehenge or Megalith. It doesn't have the music score of distant thunder either.

Enjoyable but nothing too spectacular3
As flight sims go this game is pretty light weight, the controls designed for ease rather than authenticity and the movement of the aircraft combined with the speed of the aircraft to make the scenarios easier to deal with for someone who's not a dedicated fan of simulation gaming. And this is no bad thing.
AC6 plays like the arcade game it still at heart is, it's lots of fun and let's you have an at times intense air combat experience without having to work too hard. This is a very fun game, but it never really grabbed me like I expected it to, I was never as involved with the characters or story (which concerns itself mainly with characters who don't feature in gameplay) as I wanted to be and this in turn led to a certain detachment from events which made the gameplay itself less satisfying and exciting because there wasn't really a point to it.
This game is lots of fun with a good variety of aerial combat experiences to be had, but thin story and a lack of connection to events lead to a decline in overall quality that could so easily have been avoided.