A crappy version of what would happen if you mixed Ace Combat with Burnout.
The Burnout qaulity of the game is mediocre. If you hold down the missle button when you fire ground or air based missles the camera follow it which slams into the enemy plane or whatever. The explosions are a hell of a lot better than in most air combat sims which usually just show a fireball with a trailling cloud of smoke but they are not breathe taking or anything. Also atleast in the beginning of the game the lock on distance is extremely short which makes for some very short flight times for missles. Anyways over all that feature which was its selling point was an improvement or its competitors. However.... the rest of the game..... First they tried to copy Ace Combat with its stupid story based futuristic wars and crap. Blah blah country is attacking blah blah country and your our best pilot blah blah blah go kill so and so. That boring a$$ dialogue is filled with boring maps and what not.
If you going to make a story make the effort to make PEOPLE with faces. Lame stories just end up being filler to make the game have a point which is stupid. Make the damn game have a point by making your battles affect the outcomes and stuff. Fight over territory. Inject a little Dynasty/Samurai Warriors Empires into it or Star Wars Battlefront. Next are the visuals. They are pretty crappy. You get two views from outside the place which are just at different zoom distance and one in the cockpit. They couldnt even be bothered with adding angle numbers to the HUD so you could see how steep you were climbing or diving. Im at the beginning of the game or i was until i quit because the game glitched out but for the few missions i played the lock-on distance for missles seemed awfully limited. Less than 1000 meters. It would have made some really great replays if you had longer flight times for the missles. I mean using the missle cam didnt make the explosions happen any slower or than just furing a misle normally. You were just closer at the point of impact. Maybe later you get more advanced places or weaponry with longer range missles. I was kind of enjoying the game when i decided to sit back and watch my dog fighting prowess in a replay of the entire mission. It was sweet! And then after it was over the screen blacked out and nothing happened. It glitched and I lost that fight. I've got better things to do then play glitchy games so i stopped. The flight controls were pretty nice and indistinguishable from Ace Combat if you have it set for professional. The other setting doesnt let you do complete barrel rolls and it auto-levels whether you want to or not. For alot of the fights i just used the rudders to turn instead of rolling to one side or the other and pullin back on the stick. These guys almost have the mechanics down pat. Unfortunately the rest of the game needs a total rework, especially the replays. Either make the story more important by fleshing out the voices that you hear or remove the stupid irrelevant stories and put in a territory fighting system(can anyone say co-op/versus wet dream). And make even bigger badder explosions!!! With better missle cam replays. Then this game would be worth something. As is I would just say to rent it or find it for less than 10$. Its totally not worth whatever they are asking for it brand new.