For all those up and coming RAF fighter pilots

User Rating: 9 | Ace Combat 6: Kaihou e no Senka X360
By liam437 | Review Date:
Talk to anybody from my generation that grew up watching Top Gun and they'll all tell you that, at least at one point in their life, they wanted to be a fighter pilot. And that for some reason volleyball left them a bit confused. With Ace Combat 6, you get to be Maverick. Or Goose or Iceman if you prefer, but the point is that you won't be able to play the game without at least once saying, "I'm gonna put on the brakes and he'll fly right by." And now that the Ace Combat series has made its way to Xbox 360, you can say that to a friend on the other side of the world in the midst of an adrenaline-pumping online match.

That's really the success of this game. It looks real enough and you're inside a real jet cockpit, but you can still be that imaginary ace that you've built up in your head all these years. Nose diving towards an ocean, only to pull up at the last minute in a gravity-defying move that sends you underneath a bridge while barrel rolling, of course, can be a reality. And you never run out of ammo, because the war is on your shoulders and you absolutely need to blow up every last thing on your radar, even if it is a radio tower on your home turf. The story doesn't really make sense. The giant flying manta ray looking enemy base you fight certainly doesn't either. But it doesn't matter, because you're in an F-22A that has over 200 explosives hidden somewhere on it and it controls just like you always dreamt it would…even if that isn't totally realistic.

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