Ace Combat: Assault Horizon
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is the 14th game released in the Ace Combat series. It took place in the real world, albeit in a different timeline from that of Joint Assault. Players took control of various…
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is an arcade developed by Project Aces, released 11 October 2011 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is an arcade game developed by Project Aces and released in 2011. It was published by Namco Bandai Games. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is a 2011 spin-off installment of the Ace Combat flight simulation video game series. It was developed by Project Aces and published by Bandai Namco Games for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms in October 2011. The game was later released on Microsoft Windows in January 2013 through Steam and Games for Windows – Live, with the latter notably being the final retail release for the platform shortly before its discontinuation. The title has also been removed from Steam listings.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and warfare. It supports multiplayer for up to 16 players online. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player. There are 50 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Ace Combat series
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is the fifth of 13 entries we hold in the Ace Combat series. It arrived 6 years after Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War. The next entry was Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy in 2011. Its critic score of 82 is 5 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve at 91.
How it was received
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 83% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 14 points above the year average. Players rate it 76, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz or AMD Athlon X2 2.4 Ghz, 2 GB RAM and Nvidia GeForce 8800GT and higher ; ATI radeon HD 3850 and higher. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 16GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon launched on 11 October 2011, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City, Dark Souls, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception and Shadow of the Colossus (2011). All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City, Dark Souls, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Shadow of the Colossus (2011).
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Ace Combat: Assault Horizon yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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