Nachdem ich diesen Trailer zum ersten Mal von Namcos FTP-Server gezogen habe, um ihn damals auf die Screenfun-DVD zu brennen, war er mein absolutes Highlight für die Ausgabe. Das Ding habe ich jedem meiner Freunde mehrfach vorgespielt – die Musik, die Sprachsamples und die fotorealistisch wirkende Grafik hatten es mir einfach angetan. Meine Gänsehaut habe ich dann immer ab 1:10 vorgezeigt, wenn das Logo erscheint. Die Musik hat mich so sehr beeindruckt, dass auf meinem iPod “The Liberation of Gracemeria” vom Original Soundtrack noch heute oft in der Endlosschleife läuft.

In der Kategorie “Die besten Videospiel-Trailer aller Zeiten” (DbVTaZ) stelle ich in unregelmäßigen Abständen Kleinode und epische Meisterwerke der Geschichte der Videospiel-Trailer vor, die mich besonders mitgerissen haben.

Link to review

Take flight and dance with the angels…

Pretty much the longest running flight game in the industry, and probably the most popular, the guys at Namco brings it to next gen with their latest installment, load up your weapons and take evasive action! Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation is blasting onto your 360 in an explosive blur of action!

After a shower of meteors falling from the sky, the land of Estovakia was left in ruin and soon fell into a nationwide civil war, after a few years, the nation was overtaken by a government group known as ‘The Generals’ shortly after this, they saw it fit to invade neighboring country Emmersia. At the beginning of these attacks, Melissa, a wife of an Emmersian Fighter pilot overlooks the attack from her home, fearing for her husband and child’s safety and sets out to find them.

You play as the fighter pilot known by the call sign Talisman, leader of the two man team Garuda, with your wingman Shamrock you make part of the Emmersia Air Force and alongside them all, you take on the fight to push the Estovakian forces back to take back your country.

With a large amount of aircraft at your disposal each unlock able as you progress through the game you wont feel out-gunned as you fight enemy aircraft, ground units and even building structures throughout your missions. The style of play is like its predecessors in where you set up before the mission, start and can refuel and fix up your craft by going off the allotted battlefield to land on an air strip, they’ve also added these inside the main battlefield, whether you chose to make the extra trip, or risk being shot down mid-landing is up to you.

The games difficulty can be a bit on and off at times. Some missions you’ll find extremely hard to do, and then the one after it will be really easy then the next will be even harder.

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Chillin’ out, maxin’ out, coolin’ out…

The missions usually consist of a main mission which can be completed by finishing the objective(s) in each level. These vary from taking down Air targets, Ground targets or a mixture of both, some may rely on your skills as a pilot as you may need to navigate round objects or accomplish impossible feats with your aircraft including flying at high speeds through caves and tunnels underground.

Controlling your aircraft is fairly easy, with triggers controlling your speed and the A and B buttons firing navigating your aircraft can be quite easy, which helps as whilst flying you can feel the resistance and G’s in each heavy turn and barrel roll you take.

Unfortunately, unlike its previous releases they had a 2 player split screen mode, in AC6 this has been removed but replaced with the online features. These online games modes like Team Battle and Battle Royale are your standard type Death matches only with BR being a FFA version, both are capable of holding 16 players with rooms that can be started on un-even teams to allow people to join mid way. Other modes include Siege Battle, an attacking and defending game with teams, and Co-op battle where you can bring your friends in to take part in co-op objectives.

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Showing off the guns…

With this, your also able to mask your voice to sound like the air-craft communications radio. This is quite cool, adds no other feature other than just making you sound really cool. However a down side to the multiplayer is no ranked style of placing people in rooms. This is a problem due to the fact that people who have finished the game on higher difficulties have access to more advanced and secret aircraft which when unlocked are also available in online. This means that the more experience with have a drastically huge advantage over the new-comers to the game who are just starting with the game and playing online.

To be able to hear trailing missiles and bullets shoot past your aircraft really does make you think ‘Wow that one was close!’ Even if you watched it narrowly miss you, just the sound of it literally buzzing past your ear really takes you into the cockpit. Likewise when flying past enemies you’ve just shot down, flying past closely really shakes the sound up so not only did you narrowly avoid being blown up, but you almost took yourself out crashing into a wreckage.

The game isn’t accompanied by much music besides the cut-scenes though hearing your squadron break formation in surround sound does indeed sound just great.

Flying over countryside and urban areas alike never looked so good. The photo-realistic scenery makes a beautiful backdrop for your attacks with air and ground targets alike. Something that has been greatly improved on is your aircraft looks and weapons. In previous games, the skies would look very clean and empty except for your forces and enemies, however now, smoke from your missiles and air from your aircraft moving through the air all make an imprint in the sky, and will stay there for a long period of time, this makes the battles feel a lot more alive, and the idea of things constantly going on, you can also use this to track your missiles through the air easier.

As well as this, the bright sun flare, weather and the now added thickness in clouds and explosions really bring even just flying around the area to life and a lot more challenging to play through. Small detail in the aircrafts also shows out really well. Something new is that damage briefly shows by a small flame on your hull which doesn’t always last for long.

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These guys aren’t your typical red arrows…

Though for those of you who enjoy aviation and how it works, whilst pulling the high G maneuvers you’ll see how each part of your plane moves, from rudders to the wings, each part is as accurate as real life.

The single player spans over 15 missions, each which can last a good 45 minutes to an hour. The difficulty in even the easier settings will keep you trying and trying on some of the harder levels, and if its too easy for you, there’s 5 difficulties for you to unlock, 2 which are unlock able.

Whilst playing through the single player, there’s also medals to collect, which are awarded for how you play, and you’re also able to spend the money you earn from missions on more aircraft and paint-jobs for them.

Online has a lot of modes to try out, and play around with as well as the online achievements to keep you going through them.

A great game

to move into Next gen grounds with the Ace Combat series. Though definitely one for the AC fans, and those who prefer a modern approach to the likes of Blazing Angels. Can this game with all the added new features and gameplay be to enough attract new fans to the genre?

Rating: 7.3

Published by: Namco
Developed by: Project Aces
Genre: Flight Action
Features: Xbox Live

Welcome! This new army is for playing Ace Combat 6, sort of like gaming clans, but only this one is an army. Basically, we would schedule times to go onto an online battle, usually team vs. team. We will have squads and ranks, as well as special ranks for those with “special” planes. This army is by me, Guymed (using wordpress account DZGuymed). My Xbox Live gamertag is DZGuymed, so add me after you join. Remember, this site is still under construction.

Cya!

Genauso fühl ich mich grad nach meinem zweiten Versuch die Aigaion vom Himmel zu holen. Zum Verständnis: Ich spiele zur Zeit gerne Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation auf der 360 und wurde nun zum zweiten Male abgeschossen. Ich befinde mich in der 9. Mission und wurde auf dem Durchmarsch zu diesem Auftrag nicht einmal vom Himmel geholt. Aber jetzt ist man ja permanent dabei Raketen auszuweichen und zwischendurch selbst welche auf das Schlachtschiff abzusetzen. Und diese Action ist es aber auch, die fesselt: Ständig ist irgendetwas los, Gegnerwellen im Anmarsch, andere Militäreinheiten erbitten plötzlich Luftunterstützung am Boden, Flakstellungen die auftauchen. Aber ich bekomm das noch hin… irgendwie.

Und da sich ein Video in Blogs immer gut macht und um euch die Aigaion (bei 1:58min) zu zeigen, hier der TGS 2007 Trailer.

PS: Na wer kann das miese wortspiel im Titel verraten?

Jag har spelat en massa de Blob idag. Jag skrev till och med en recension av det! Du hittar den på spelbloggen (länk dära till höger ju) och där hittar du även ett inlägg om att dö eller inte dö i spel. Yay!

Jag har börjat spela mina spel i bokstavsordning. Inte oavsett konsol, utan beroende på var jag känner för att sitta och så. Det är nog enda sättet jag kan få de där drygt 100 spelen spelade! Det är inte så att jag känner att jag måste eller så, jag behöver bara något sätt att välja spel på.

de Blob var det första spelet till Wii så därför spelade jag det… och hade superkul!. Även Ace Combat 6 har fått lite uppmärksamhet.
Det är en grej med den här lilla idén. Ace Combat 6 är Johans spel, inget jag varit minsta intresserad av att testa ens lite. Men nu startade jag det och finner mig fascinerad av det! Trevlig upplevelse faktiskt. Jag suger på det iofs, men det är kul även när jag krashar.. ehum.

Well after that rather heavy blog about loss, grief and the uncertainty of a person who needs help but isn’t asking for it, I thought I would post something different.

I thought I would write no so much a review but just a blog talking about Bioshock.  I know, I know, I am very late with this game seeing as it was out on the Xbox360 some 983,475,934 years ago, but who cares right?  As a PS3 owner I am happy to have played it and it only cost me 60 bucks, well maybe 70 bucks if I download the add-on content that is available in the PSN Store.  I didn’t have to buy into the whole Microsoft thing just to play this game.

I like that console exclusives seem to be going the way of the beta kits, on the way out.  We are going digital and console exclusives may be some what of a risk for today’s market.  That doesn’t mean I want every single game to be a cross platform game mind you.  There is still a market methinks for exclusive games since there is already a fanbase built and as I will get into later, another means for exclusives.

It is funny but when Ace Combat 6 was announced, I was elated and then saddened, disheartened, pissed off and downright nasty toward the developer for not having the patience to wait and build their game for the PS3 but instead cash in on the 360 market that was already in place, even if only for a year.  I felt that as a supporter of the game on a Playstation for many years, I was betrayed.  But then I played the game on the 360 and even got to try the online which was the only thing about the game that I liked; perhaps it was the controller but it didn’t feel like an Ace Combat game for me.

Then we have Bioshock doing the same kind of thing but from the 360 to the PS3 and I guess I had to rethink my thinking, which I have.  I say it again, console exclusives may be on the way out and I guess I don’t mind.

I do hope to see more games being developed for the PS3 first and then being ported over to the 360.  Since is it easier to develop for the 360 first and then try to port it over to the PS3, I have to wonder just how lazy developers are getting.  Then I play Bioshock and have to rethink that as well.  =)

I have always taken this stance when it comes to the so called ‘console wars’ between the PS3 and the Xb360:

There is no war, AS GAMERS WE ALL WIN.

I still believe that and having Bioshock available for me as a PS3 gamer may have been the catalyst for this particular blog but I had said that in a Sony site several years ago.

Bioshock has been a game that I had to really get into, maybe it was the level design for the first level (Neptune’s) or maybe it was having to get used to the R2 and L2 as the fire buttons, but it took me a while to get used to the game.  I played it sparingly over two months or so but that was also because I had Resistance 2 and SOCOM Confrontation, two games that were on my ‘must buy’ list.

Once I did get going with the game, funny enough it was after almost burning out on Resistance 2 online coop, I found a game that I really enjoyed.  The story was an interesting one, certainly not a new one but the setting and tone of the story was definitely unique and the audio in it was something you have to hear, very immersive for the tone of the game.

The Little Sisters are creepy and I did play it through saving them rather than harvesting them.  This does give me the opportunity to play the game again because it is a fun game but this time I will want to harvest them to see how the story goes.  I still have a few trophies i want to earn and I guess I will just face it, I want the DLC (downloadable content) which is three new maps.  I still have to see if the three maps are the same as the ones that are available for the XB360 because I did hear something about PS3 exclusive content.

Perhaps that is the as I eluded to earlier the new way for exclusive content since the digital download is so prevalent in todays gaming market.  I would not mind playing a former XB360 exclusive game on my PS3 if there was some downloadable content that was exclusive to the PS3 version.  In that regard, I wouldn’t mind having the same exclusive DLC for a PS3 game that has debuted on the 360.

For fans of the Soul Caliber franchise, this was done in small part already by having characters in the game that were exclusive to the version of the game that was being played.  Stuff like that.

So tonight I will be playing smething else, perhaps the PS3 exclusive SOCOM Confrontation.  LOL  Either way, the games that I do have have served me well and if it means that console exlcusives go the way of the beta kit then so be it for as a gamer, there is nothing more that I want than gaming goodness across all platforms.

Hoy pongo esta pequeña entrada porque lo merece. Ya hace aproximadamente un año que salió a la venta Ace Combat 6, pero esta mañana trasteando por el disco duro de la Xbox 360 he encontrado el segundo trailer del juego, y me ha vuelto a poner la piel de gallina. He sido un fan de la saga Ace Combat desde que jugué a Ace combat 3 (el japonés, el que tenia historia y no el bodrio que sacaron en occidente) en la primera Play Station , y he tenido el 4, el 5, el Belkan War para Play Station 2 (y eso que no tengo la consola, es prestada de un amigo) y después el 6 para Xbox 360, principal motivo para comprarme esta consola (no tengo PSP ni GBA por lo que no he probado esas entregas), así que no soy neutral, pero desde mi punto de vista este trailer es el mejor que se ha hecho jamás para videojuego alguno. Mirad y opinad:

Buf, es que esa música y esa selección de escenas… hace que la historia parezca mejor de lo que és (que no es mala, pero el juego en general no llega a la altura de la obra maestra que es Ace Combat 5 de Play Station 2).

De todos modos quien no haya jugado a este juego no se puede considerar ni jugón ni persona. Yo aun sigo jugando online y divirtiéndome, así que si os da por ahí y os apetece jugar dadme un grito por xbox live. Mi cuenta allí es Toshikii (si, no me he equivocado, es con dos i al final).

Looks like the Hollywood boys have taken to the skies for now…. Join me and Hollywoodjdfc for some action in the skies.

Ace Combat 6  Xbox 360 Singleplayer Review

What I Liked:

1. Amazing graphics all around. Best looking planes I’ve ever seen in a game. Some of the characters’ mouths can look a bit odd, but it’s no big deal.

2. Generally fun flight action gameplay.

3. Decent selection of aircraft to unlock and fly.

4. Special weapons are cool, and strike a compromise between arcade-like ease of use and realistic simulation.  Example: The real life F-14 had a weapons system which could attack 6 different targets simultaneously with Phoenix missiles.   In Ace Combat 6, your F-14 could use a long range air-to-air missile special weapon that could attack 6 targets at once.

What I Didn’t Like:

1. The dialog and radio chatter was HORRIBLE.  Each mission had a constant stream of annoying chatter playing from start to finish.  I wished for a way to shut them up.

2. I didn’t care much for the story during cut scenes.

3. Some missions and enemies just felt too “sci-fi” and/or “cheap”.    The enemies used sci-fi style flying “battle-cruisers” or whatever, plus super zippy-quick futuristic aircraft that defied physics.

Yay: Again, the aircraft on this game look so fantastic, they are an aviation nut’s wet dream. +1

Gay: If I heard “Dance with the angels” or any of its variants ONE MORE TIME during that game, I was going to snap the disc in half, and then throw it in a blender. Once blended, I’d then set the pieces on fire. Then I’d throw the ashes in the toilet, take an explosive diarrhea on them, and then flush it all blissfully away.   -1

Final BS Rating: +1 ALRIGHT

Namco Bandai mostró los nuevos aviones de Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation que podrás descargar en el marketplace de Xbox Live por 200 o 300 unidades cada uno.

No sé a ustedes, pero estas imágenes me gustaron mucho y de hecho ya me interesó el juego.

Más imágenes.

Fresh new screenshots from this new Xbox Live^® Market Place Downloadable Content.

Available from today 24 April 2008 :

Rafale M – THE IDOLMASTER IORI – (400 Microsoft Points)

Typhoon – ORANGE WING – (300 Microsoft Points)

Su-47 Berkut – VIOLET WING – (300 Microsoft Points)

Typhoon – ROT – (200 Microsoft Points)

F-16C Fighting Falcon – PJ EMBLEM – (Free)

Tornado GR.4 + F-15E Strike Eagle + CFA-44 Nosferatu + F/A-18F SuperHornet – RAZGRIZ (400 Microsoft Points)

Bye everyone ^^

Gênero:  Simulador
Distribuidora: Namco Bandai Games America
Desenvolvedora: Namco Bandai Games
Plataforma: Xbox 360
Data de lançamento: 23 de Outubro de 2007

“Ace Combat” é uma série que nasceu nos fliperamas, mas foi nos consoles da Sony que ganhou fama. Agora, é a vez do Xbox 360 ter um episódio da principal franquia do gênero simulador de combate (apesar de equilibrar com elementos de ação).

Sendo a primeira edição para um console de nova geração, a mudança é que a escala dos combates ficaram maiores. São esquadrões inteiros se digladiando nos céus. Por conta disso, no modo de campanha, diversas operações acontecem ao mesmo tempo e dependendo das ações do jogador, o rumo da missão pode mudar. Ou seja, a situação varia conforme as escolhas e o desempenho do piloto.

Desta vez, o jogador pode pedir reforço de grupos aliados. A ajuda vem em forma de mais aviões, bombardeios, helicópteros, tanques, navios de guerra e equipamentos de guerra eletrônica.

A história é contada na visão de sete personagens, entre soldados de cada um dos lados da guerra e civis. O enredo gira em torno de dois países que se fazem fronteira: a república de Emelia e a federação da Estováquia. Quinze anos após ser arrasado por um meteoro, a federação ataca o vizinho. O jogador, na pele do piloto Talisman, luta para proteger o povo de Emelia.

Se o visual já era consagrado na versão para PlayStation 2, ficou ainda mais realista e refinado, graças à alta resolução do Xbox 360. O brilho, a textura da lataria e a sensação de solidez estão mais nítidos que nunca.

Com sempre, as aeronaves são réplicas fiéis de modelos reais, e isso nunca foi tão verdadeiro como agora. Não apenas o exterior de aviões como o F-15 Strike Eagle e o A-10A Thunderbolt II foram copiados em seus mínimos detalhes (inclusive o trem de pouso), mas também todo o cockpit. A produtora promete que todos os medidores e instrumentos funcionarão como nos modelos de verdade. Assim, a visão de cabine está mais realista que nunca.

A produção do jogo está a cargo de Hiroyuki Ichinagi, que foi diretor de “Ace Combat 4″ e produtor dos games subseqüentes, enquanto a direção é de Natsuki Izaki, líder de projeto de “Ace Combat 5″.

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