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Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation (Xbox 360) | 
 enlarge | From: Atari
Category: Video Games
List Price: £49.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  64 reviews
Sales Rank: 542
Platform: Xbox 360
Media: Video Game
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 3296580804207
ASIN: B000TTB7A4
Release Date: November 23, 2007
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 I went to the danger zone! June 1, 2008
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! May 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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 rubbish May 8, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
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 spectacular March 20, 2008
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.
a fairly mediocre game March 16, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Flight-combat games should be either realistic and detailed (Flight Simulator style) or fun and quick to pick up and play (Arcade style), but unfortunately Ace Combat 6 tries to be both and fails.
The graphics are very impressive, with a lot of next-gen gleam. Explosions are fantastic and the detailed terrain is very realistic; it all creates for quite an immersive environment. The sound too adds to the feel of the game, with explosions and gunfire all firing over crisply in Dolby Digital surround sound.
Unfortunately, the flaws in gameplay detract from the presentation and is results in a fairly mediocre game. I also found it too easy, and zipped through the first few levels without hardly thinking.
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