Beautiful..

You chaps crack me up sometimes.

Getting there.

+1

I have one, but serious question. Can your Apache do that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C76JSDvU-9A&feature=player_detailpage#t=42s

I think it's essential to avoid incoming missiles.

Yeah it comes with the Health packs and Laser gun upgrade you can purchase in villages and base..

Please don't, I almost cried when I played that demo. It's HORRIBLE to watch someone take something you love and piss all over it, and get paid a gob load of money for doing it.

If they wanted spectacular visuals for avoiding missiles they they could have added a totally OTT flare dispersal. It would have looked awesome and wouldn't have shat all over the Apache, which they did.

All IMHO.

I know Flexman, just joking. I've tried that demo too. I've played whole campaign in Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere and it was a decent arcade shooter, but that new game is terrible.

One of the voices in that video makes me think of Christopher Walken.

Elf

Oh my, Christopher Walken, forever associated with "Needs more cowbell".
He was an actor in one of the early FMV CDROM games, one of the Chris Roberts games? Privateer or something?


The textures in the game are fantastic, love the lighting and dust effects. What's the best tool for mip-mapping these days I wonder.

Is there something like a Decent arcade shooter? Its an arcade game whatever way you look at it ..

Of course there is something like decent arcade game. I've enjoyed Ace Combat 3 on PS One just like I've enjoyed Blue Max on C-64, Desert Strike and Wings of Fury on Amiga and Crimson Skies on the PC. I like to play many different games, not flight simulators only. Right now I play Dark Souls on my PS3. It's a very good, hard as hell Action RPG/Dungeon Crawler. Great game.

Simulator developers makes in-depth studies of an aircraft, but forgets about gameplay. I like DCS very much, own them both, but gameplay is more like Excel spreadsheet than game. That's why I follow Combat Helo development so closely, it's the only flight sim in development 'in the spirit' of old school simulators, when flight sims were fun.

It's kinda straying a little OT but don't have much else to chit chat about atm.

I played the last Ace Combat game on the 360 over and over. The story mode made attempts to show the consequences of war which was quite unusual, although it did it in a way it could get away with, nothing graphic. I admired that design decision, it was brave and set the tone for the whole game.

If only we could do that.

At the weekend I played (mostly watched) the most amazingly cleaver and manipulative game I'd seen in ages. Fable III was new to me, I watched my eldest daughter agonise over a decision she was forced to make; to have her friend executed or a group of bitter towns folk who had angered your brother/Regent. This was in the first five minutes of play but the game was crafted so you form an emotional bond with a character very early on making the decision all the harder. And this simple event echoes right at the end (which isn't the end but you think it is). Your character goes on quite a journey.

All the speech was recorded which made a huge difference in presentation.

Games done right, smartly, regardless of genre can be engrossing experiences. I don't know if we can pull that off, we just don't have the resources to deliver everything I want. Isn't that always the way?

Is already scheduled for release??