12/16/2022 0 Comments Ace combat 7 review![]() Sometimes, explosions are their own reward. And, of course, that detail adds to the spectacle in combat: When you fly through the smoke and flame of a just-destroyed fighter you can see pieces of shrapnel shooting every which way. It is not unlike looking out the window in an actual plane. As you fly perilously close to a cliff, you can see patches of grass and small discrete rocks on its face. It’s delightful and always rewards a closer look. Meticulously detailed jets zip across the sky, weaving among beautiful, craggy mountain ranges and bursting through cloud cover. That said, you will look good during all of that failure because even though Ace Combat 7 plays like a game from a previous decade, it looks shiny and new. You will learn by doing - by failing, crashing, and getting shot down. It’s still possible to pick up the controls and have a decent time swatting planes out of the sky, especially if you’ve played other Ace Combat games, but it’s definitely a struggle to figure out the ins and outs. And yet, it expect us to jump back in like no time has passed. Even fans who have followed the series and played every game are likely out of practice. It has been almost five years since the last Ace Combat game, Infinity, and 12 years since Ace Combat 6. The idea that anyone will just pick up this game and know everything they need to do, even if it plays identically to past Ace Combats, is ludicrous. Even on easy, the difficulty meant for those “who are new to the Ace Combat series,” there are a just few text prompts in the opening missions telling you how to break, accelerate, use your missiles, etc. Many mechanics, such as using bombs to attack ground targets, get no instructions at all, even when they’re incorporated into missions. Whether you’re a new novice player or an old fan returning and looking to take your piloting skills to the next level, there is no training mode and no advanced tutorials. As someone who’s played Ace Combat games before, I came in with some of that knowledge but it still felt like I had a lot to learn.įor that reason, I was baffled by the fact that Ace Combat 7 offers little to no help. Figuring out tilting your nose up can slow your forward movement down without losing speed, integrating advanced pitch and yaw controls to tighten up your turns, or simply fine-tuning your sense of the ideal angle from which to approach an enemy fighter to get a quick, decisive shot at them take practice and knowhow. You can pick it up and play at a basic level, but dogfighting in Ace Combat is, and has always been, surprisingly complex: there are tricks and advanced maneuvers to figure out using the advanced turning controls that bring lots of nuance to the combat. All that strategy flies out the window as you focus solely on keeping up with the jet in your sights and lining up that perfect missile lock. There are moments, particularly when chasing down with a tricky opponent, when your reflexes are put to the test. Dogfighting in Ace Combat is, and has always been, surprisingly complex.
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