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Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation (Xbox 360) | 
 enlarge | From: Atari
Category: Video Games
List Price: £49.99
Buy New: £24.98
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Rating:  64 reviews
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: flight-simulation-games
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
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New & Sealed, Shipped From The UK
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 Ace Combat Next Generation October 8, 2007
A. Banjoko (North London, England)
9 out of 18 found this review helpful
This game has been confirmed for PS3 and Xbox 360. The game features a gripping story line and is meant to be an Arcade/Sim. The physics are semi realistic and its very fun to play. You dont need to worry about much apart from taking out the enemy. You can adopt your own approach to battle which determines enemies action in future missions. This has always been the case in Ace Combat. Graphics are stunning and sound is impressive. You can now control ground and navy troops and possibly ask for assistance from SAM operators and other allies (friends) etc.
Ace Combat has the best music of any video game in the market. This is demonstrated by the amount of official soundtrack sales to date. The music is so good that even I thats not a fan of Classical and Techno music am now starting to listen to this form of music nowadays.
Ace Combat 6 will now focus on different fictional Countries called Emmeria (similar to Canada) and Estovakia (Eastern European nation). Estovakia invades the capital of Emmeria and the war takes it course. For more information about Ace Combat nations visit Wikipedia. Each of these fictional countries represent a country in the real world. Each war and weapon represents something that actually happened in real life. Like in the previous game Ace Combat Belkan war, the Belkan war represented World War 2. Belka represent Olden day Germany with its attempt for world domination. Yuktobania (Russia), Osea (USA) etc. Unlike real life all planes in the game are used by all nations in Ace Combat. But the main squadrons are like real life and use the planes their represented countries use more.
There are about 30 licensed aircraft. The fans of Ace Combat like a wide variety of planes and the game caters for them. Each plane is unique and handles differently with dfferent power. For Example the F22 raptor is more likely to hit a target and dodge an incoming missile with its superior speed and faster missile than a Tornado GR4 or a Typhoon. Stealth planes are actually stealth for the Enemy. In Ace Combat Belkan wars YF 23 planes (cancelled project) actually dissapear of radar making you very nervous. I dont know how this affects the enemy if you choose the F22 or the YF planes.
Overall this game and its series are unique. The fans of the game will be there when it is released on both platforms. All I'm hoping is that one day Ace Combat represents the UK. This game is one of a kind a must buy for Jet Sim fans. A true hollywood setting but more insteresting and sophisticated.
Chocks Away! Flying High Burning The Throttle !! November 23, 2007
Wirral Bagpuss (Wirral, Merseyside. UK)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Got this game today, and wow what a game!! The graphics are very realistic, nice views of the city and you can almost feel you are in Sim City !! Aerial play is superb, it's like being press ganged into the RAF for the day and being strapped into their training flight simulator! You can't get any closer to the real deal in this game. Controls are easy to manage and it's not long before you are shooting down enemy fighter planes. Dogfights are spectacular and i just LOVE the playback scenes where you can reply your triumps or failures!! The "on the ground" stroyline is compelling too, with the pespective of a civilian married to one of the pilots in the story and who is separated from her daughter as a result of the initial attack.
If you want to light the fires, burn the throttle and get some high octane jet fighting, this is the game for you !! Before long you will be singing the Dambusters tune and strapping on your leather flying jacket as you scramble for another sortie !!! Great fun and first class action !
Finally! ace combat is coming September 12, 2007
Shion 2 (Devon/UK)
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
THE only flight/fighter simulator you will ever need to buy.
Ace combat is practically an institution in video gaming,
you can always count on AC delivering the best graphics, gameplay
and story for your money.
Now onto the game , I have now played the demo level from the xbox
magazine so many times now (I cant count how many), and I just keep
going back to it.
The graphics are ground breaking, apart from one flaw- as with previous
versions to give you larger more detailed planes and more battles,
the ground terrain is really only a spattering of buildings and some
cliffs (although the cliffs are stunning...as cliffs go).
The combat in aire is just so engaging, especially since you can now
hear the enemy and your teammates conversations, some great moments come
from this for example the enemy will come into battle shouting slogans
and bragging about your demise and then as you slowly pick them off
the get more anxious and they start fearing for their lives.
and when its backed by your teammates cheering and praising you as you take another
craft out of the skies it really makes an already realistic battle scenario come to life.
The only other downside I found was that your craft is equipped with a "special" weapon
in the demo- special rockets, these weapons are really TOO powerfull,
you fire one rocket that splits into four and takes out four seperate enimies,
and it hardly ever misses, I hope they level them out more in the finished game.
All in all this is a game from an already stunning portfolio and from the demo
you can tell this is going to be the best yet.
 Boring and Cheesey February 13, 2008
WJMardell (Wales)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
This game is perhaps the most boring, vomit-inducing game i have played to date. Ok, i may be exaggerating a bit, but allow me to explain why.
Boring - It will take you 20 minutes at least to complete missions, as you have to bomb ground units and destroy air units. If you miss them, you have to make another pass and try again. Miss again? Another pass. Again. And again. Oh wait- and again. When you run out of rockets and fuel you have to fly an endless distance to the "return zone" and then fly all the way back to the combat zone. I don't have the patience for this. If you suffer from short patience like I do, I advise that you don't buy this game. The game may be the most advanced combat flight simulator like my fellow reviewers have said, but unless you are really, really, REALLY into your graphics and technology and whatever so much that it scares your friends, I'm afraid there's not many pluses to the game. Except perhaps when you do eventually blow something up, a small "yay" will emanate from deep within you, but apart from that, that's about it.
Vomit-inducing - The story that goes on between the missions are just so exceptionally cheesey that a bucket may be handy while watching them. (For those who don't get my lingo, "cheesey" means that it is amazingly melodramatic and/or over-done) I understand that the game-makers are probably trying to convey the civilian apsect of war, but for some it just doesn't go well - it's hard to describe, but it just doesn't look quite "gritty" enough to really make you feel any empathy. The encouraging remarks made by your fellow fighters are not unlike what you would hear from a child's playtoy "Right on!" "You got him!" and are said in such a way that you eventually expect a pat on the head and a biscuit each time it is said.
Also, there are Cold-War-esque similarities to this game, with "Emmeria" sounding distinctly American, and "Estovakia" sounding distinctly.... well, you could be forgiven for actually thinking it is a place in Russia. Even the map looks familiar. Perhaps unintentionally, the game-makers have created some sort of subliminal political message within this game, along the lines of "Americans are the good guys" as well as others that I'm not going to mention.
In conclusion, I really wouldn't advise you to purchase this game as it is money well and truly thrown down the drain. Yay, well done for the graphics, but everything else is just not worth it. Perhaps only buy if it happens to be in a bargain bin or some such. 4/10
Very impressed with the XB live demo August 31, 2007
Mr. I. Nahaboo (Manchester, UK)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have played the demo to death on xblive and i love every episode of this series all the way back to the psone versions. They are the finest arcade flight sims ever and if this one is not the best one yet i will eat my 360! Please Namco make them harder though, i am finding all the ace combats too easy now!
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