Ace Combat: Assault Horizon
| Ace Combat: Assault Horizon | |
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| Developer(s) |
Namco QLOC (PC) |
| Publisher(s) | Namco Bandai Games |
| Director(s) | Natsuki Isaki |
| Producer(s) |
Kazutoki Kono Hiroyuki Ichiyanagi |
| Designer(s) | Sanshiro Hidaka Ryousuke Waki Kazuo Yamamoto Masaya Amano |
| Writer(s) | Jim DeFelice |
| Composer(s) | Keiki Kobayashi Hiroshi Okubo Rio Hamamoto Jesahm Norihiko Hibino Takahiro Izutani Yoshitaka Suzuki |
| Series | Ace Combat |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows |
| Release date(s) |
PlayStation 3 & Xbox 360 Microsoft Windows |
| Genre(s) | Combat flight simulator |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 78.41% (X360) 75.93% (PS3) 60.00% (PC) |
| Metacritic | 78/100 (X360) 77/100 (PS3) 77/100 (PC) |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| 1UP.com | D+ |
| GameSpot | 5.5/10 |
| IGN | 7.5/10 |
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon (エースコンバット アサルト・ホライゾン Ēsu Konbatto Asaruto Horaizon?) is an installment of the Ace Combat arcade combat flight video game series. It was developed by Project Aces and originally published by Namco Bandai for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms in October 2011. The game was later released on Microsoft Windows in January 2013 through Steam. This is also the first Ace Combat title with a plot mostly written by non-Japanese writers, with noted author Jim deFelice at the helm.
The major new gameplay feature is a system called "Close-Range Assault" (CRA), which aims to increase the intensity and bring the action closer to the player, without the feeling of "shooting at faraway dots" commonly seen in flight games. In the game, it is named "Dogfight Mode" (DFM) for air-to-air battles and "Air Strike Mode" (ASM) for air-to-ground targets. They are not optional, as certain planes and ground targets cannot be destroyed without CRA. To initiate DFM, the player taps LB+RB on the Xbox 360 or L2+R2 on the PS3 when they have gotten close enough to the plane they are targeting. ASM is initiated by pressing the same buttons at specific points around the map. Players will also pilot other aircraft types and assume other combat aviation functions; the game introduces the B-1 and B-2 strategic bombers and the AH-64 Apache and UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters as player-flyable vehicles. Certain missions may call for players to act as Black Hawk door gunners or weapons officers aboard the AC-130 Spectre gunship. Dogfight Mode has received numerous criticisms primarily from those who have played previous Ace Combat games, saying that it has ruined the core gameplay of the game and eliminating freedom of style.
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