![]() ![]() Getting into the presentation, we see once again that aerial combat games benefit a lot from the current generation of consoles. Purists may lose heart over the fact that the new setting seems to have come at the cost of a deeper story, but the observant will note that this is not a numbered iteration of the series, so there might be more Strangereal stories on the way. Instead we get a very straightforward yarn about super weapons, betrayals and some pretty impressive mobilization of combined arms in some very familiar locales. The story itself is serviceable, though, perhaps because of its dealing with real world cultures, it doesn’t delve as deeply into the tragic futility of war and its human cost as Ace Combat 4: Shattered Skies did, nor does it develop its characters or examine themes of nationalism the way Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War did. The missions take place all over the world, from Africa to the Middle East to North America and Europe. ![]() Instead, thanks in part to the writing contribution of military novelist Jim DeFelice, the game firmly treads the Earth we know, with a group of American pilots taking on a conspiracy that conveniently pits them against top of the line Russian combat planes. ![]() For the first time in years, Ace Combat: Assault Horizon abandons the “Strangereal” setting of previous games, a fictional, alternate Earth with its own nations, history and military forces that just happened to use American and Russian combat aircraft. ![]()
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