Tried the helo mission earlier and didn't even make it through it. (didn't like it enough to finish) Definitely not getting this game.

It is a shame.. been anxiously awaiting this...another game with awesome terrain/ city scapes,, and great effects gone down the toilet( cough* Apache Air Assault* cough)

The DLC coming out, the Tokyo video I saw, is very impressive Poly count cities, with glimmering windows on the buildings and such..was tempted to buy game just to fly around the envirinments.. but that gets old quick. And like what everyone else said the Apache is a joke, I mean in cockpit view and you look down and the whole helicopter tilts forward, yet doesn't move forward is too weird. They should have gone the Apache: Air Assault route using that control scheme.. yawing the Apache was bad also because the camera had to move alll the way over to left or right before the helicopter started to actually turn.. unless they have a drastically different control scheme for the choppers I'll pass also...

I figured this would be the case since I saw the first trailer. The Ace Combat series was great for arcade games. Every now and then a basic arcade flight game where you can fly different planes like F-22s and Eurofighters (we'll never see a flight sim for those aircraft) was fun. But this really looks like CoD: Air Combat with constant "Press but X" sequences.

Its a shame to see Namco kill such a good series. I hope the backlash is big and they make an Ace Combat 7.