More Screens and Video of Namco's 'Ace Combat XI'
posted by arn on October 13th, 2009 11:09 AM EDT in Upcoming Games, iPhone games, iPod touch games
Namco has posted a series of screenshots from their upcoming Ace Combat XI game for the iPhone. The Ace Combat francise has been around since 1995 with versions of the game appearing on the Playstation, Playstation 2, Xbox 360, and PSP. Early impressions of the game describe the gameplay experience to be "smooth and easy to play".
Ace Combat XI is said to be "coming soon".
I really really really hope that this is a full-scale Ace Combat game, including high-tech superweapons and boss battles. I wanna take on aerial battleships and submarine aircraft carriers again, or fly inside massive doom-fortresses to take out tiny internal weak-points.
Dogfighting is all well and good, but the occasional fight with something epic is always fun.
Sweeeeeeeeeet!
I doubt we'll see Gleipnir or fight Fenrir. Seems strange that they're pulling off the same story, i don't see how they'd work in one or two more superweapons, but i'm sure they'll pull it off somehow. I for one would like to see a new secret plane, but hopefully they still have Fenrir and the Falken.
@Dominic White: +1
Looooks great
hope it place nicely
Not bad, looks pretty close to the PSP version.
Yeah, the iPhone version appears to have better graphics than the PSP version if you compare screenshots (see the thread).
I want this so badly .. Those first flight games of the Playstation era really got me hooked on this genre (and completely un-hooked from the hard core sim.)
Besides, any game featuring a plane reminiscent of the SR-71 Blackbird gets my vote. (That plane will always look damn cool.)
I'm sick and tired of FAST (and their horrible customer service), so I hope Ace Combat comes out soon.
I sooo agree. SGN has offered 0 support for my several queries, nor for any queries submitted by any of my F.A.S.T.-playing friends (See the Sgarrista Air Brigade social group here at Touch Arcade.) We're quite sick of it. I look forward to Ace Combat Xi.
I hope Ace Combat Xi provides some sort of social framework. Ideas given to SGN by our group, which we've also submitted to to Namco:
1. Have nationality and/or Clan ID attached to the pilot ID. It’s more fun to know which country/group your opponent is from, and to check the nationalities of the Top Pilots (it could look like an olympic scoreboard).
2. Enable online chat in the game itself, or in pre-game lobbies. This can allow players to challenge one another more easily.
3. An Ace Combat Xi forum for all users, with the option to create orders, or groups/squadrons/brigades (like our Sgarrista Air Brigade), and provide a way for those groups to form private forums for their own members.
4. From within the game, allow a way for a player to check for members of his Clan/Brigade who are online, and select them as desired opponents, or as team mates.
5. Allow a player to log in as himself from any iPod Touch/ iPhone. This way if you have to share your iPod with your brother/sister/son/wife/whatever, you can still log in as yourself and play. Also, if you get a new iPod, you can bring your player name and account with you. In F.A.S.T. the account is tied to a particular device, so upgrading to a new device means you lose your account.