

Aces solid controls enable you to turn and burn. most targets are easy pickings, but later, air and ground missiles thwart your attacks, often sending you down in flames. Ace puts you at the controls of a formidable squadron of aircraft As in all AC games, you fly with familiar behind-the-jet or inside-the-cockpit views, and the easy-to-read radar and slick heads-up display enable you to track bogies until you're within range to launch missiles.Įarly on. This time around, you're sort of a high-altitude policeman whose task is to battle the evil forces of General Resource, a money-grubbing mega-corporation that dominates the Ace Combat world.

However, there's also a lot of politics crowding the screen, which sometimes bogs down this supersonic flight. Will you soar with the eagles or flounder with the turkeys? Ace Combat 3 will be looking for a few good pilots this summer.Īce Combat (known as Air Combat in the U.S.) is making its third pass through Japanese PlayStation skies, and the jet fightings as crisp as ever.

Unlike Ace Combat 2 where you were allowed to choose a different path only once during the game, AC3E allows you to choose multiple paths, each of which will affect the game's outcome. You'll be able to tackle the challenge with your new craft and various topnotch weapons like guided missiles and machine guns. You'll use your planes in a near-future setting-as opposed to the "small country" settings of the previous two- where a new world order has come to power. Plus, the quantity of planes in AC3E has nearly doubled from the previous games. The screens in this early preview version show visuals that are much more clearly defined than the graphics in the first two Ace Combats, featuring battles that range from skirmishes in steamy jungles to stealthy night missions.

With one of the strongest flight franchises to hit console s/stems, Namco looks set to blow away any competition this year with the gorgeously rendered AC3E. Get ready, jet jockeys! Namco's taken its best-selling flight sim and added a few fuel tanks' worth of fun to ramp up the action with Ace Combat 3 Electrosphere.
