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Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy is a remake of Ace Combat 2. It is a flight-sim/arcade fighter combat action game. The game is typically played in a third person, behind the aircraft, or first person…

66 15 November 2011 ESRB T

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy is an arcade developed by Project Aces, released 15 November 2011 on Nintendo 3DS. The main story takes about 10 hrs to finish.

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What Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy is

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy is an arcade game developed by Project Aces and released in 2011. It was published by Namco Bandai Games. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy is a remake of Ace Combat 2. It is a flight-sim/arcade fighter combat action game. The game is typically played in a third person, behind the aircraft, or first person, inside the cockpit view. It features series mainstays such as numerous selectable aircraft and the ability to purchase parts and weapons to customize the fighters. Where Assault Horizon Legacy sets itself apart from current console versions of Assault Horizon in that the gameplay is tipped more in favour of the arcade-style action of the early games in the series rather than focusing on flight-sim characteristics. Also different from the console versions of Assault Horizon is that this…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Ace Combat series

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy is the sixth of 13 entries we hold in the Ace Combat series. The next entry was Ace Combat Infinity in 2014. Its critic score of 66 is 11 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve at 91.

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How it was received

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 2 points below the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 10 hrs.

What it launched against

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy launched on 15 November 2011, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Minecraft: Java Edition and Battlefield 3. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Minecraft: Java Edition, Battlefield 3.

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Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy — frequently asked questions

When did Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy come out?
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy was released on 15 November 2011 for Nintendo 3DS.
How long does it take to beat Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy?
The main story of Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy takes around 10 hrs.

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