Next thing you know, the game pauses to inform you to press both the LB and RB buttons, and before you can process anything, you're in a zoomed-in chase with a plane weaving through skyscrapers, causing a freak out. What better way to introduce this addition, too, then by forcing players to learn it the very second the campaign mode starts? Really, the first mission begins with your fighter pilot already locked on to a bogey flying over a battle-torn city of Miami, also making this the first console AC to use real world locations. With all this time for Project Aces to think, ponder, and reassess the path the franchise was heading, the most dramatic contribution they did with Assault Horizon, and for the series, was include one simple feature: Dogfight Mode. That's the kind of pressure Ace Combat: Assault Horizon faced nearing its launch date, coming four years after the release of Ace Combat 6.
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One more sequel like this, though, and the series would've officially been on auto pilot. That game set the bar for what every new AC title should achieve to become, yet its two successors felt content on delivering competent, albeit underwhelming performances. Let's be real here: while the last two console titles, Zero and 6, were nice games, they weren't on the same wavelength Ace Combat 5 was on. Smoke engulfs metal, wings break off, and you'll sometimes actually see the pilot flail uncontrollably out their aircraft! I excitably let loose an explicit the first time I witnessed that."
"Then there's the payoff: an up close, incredibly detailed look at the destruction that never gets tiresome. Ace Combat: Assault Horizon (Xbox 360) review
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