ORIGINAL: Eddie_the_Hated
So how is it? AC6 that is?
After mission 5 it gets good. REALLY good.
The story is lame, as usual, and the cinematics while generally pretty to look at are just plain dumb. They' re so bad i' ve just been skipping them. The voice work, like usual, is atrocious. It quite possibly has the worst i' ve ever heard.
Anyway, the game itself isn' t as fleshed out as previous AC games. They are fewer missions, no choice of paths, and here are fewer aircraft. There' s only one enemy Ace unit, and even after you kill them in one mission, they appear again in another. In terms of content, The Unsung War, The Belkan War and Skies of Deception top it with ease.
It' s also the same game. 2 nations, WMD' s, flying fortresses, canyon runs where you have to stay under the radar, a mission where you have to fly through tunnels etc etc etc... These things are present in every AC game, and while you could argue that it just wouldn' t be Ace Combat without them, it started to get old 2 games back.
Graphically it' s gorgeous. The models look fantastic, and should meet your extremely high standards for this type of thing. The smoke and clouds are amazing and the amount going on in a single scene is overwhelming. Heh, if you destroy an enemy fighter/bomber and fly through the explosion, you can hear the debris bouncing off your plane. Very cool.
It' s still not fast enough, but that' s only a minor critism, ...and the online mode is awful.
The biggest change is the allied support. Basically you can call in cruise missle strikes to take out anything onscreen, as long as you have the bar high enough. The bar is split into 5? sections, so if it' s full you can call in 5 strikes. Completing one of the 3 or 4 aspects of the overall mission gives you a full bar, so it' s not like your choice of a fighter/bomber comes into play because even on air - ground heavy missions you can take a fighter and just call in cruise missle strikes to wipe out tons of tanks or pillboxes.
But the game is fun, ...after the first 4 or 5 missions.
I do think it' s too easy though. I' m playing on normal and have gotten a string of S ranks. I think they' ve toned the difficulty settings down...
It' s worth buying if you can find it cheap, or if you are seriously into either the series, or military hardware.