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Ace Combat fans can get ready to fly the unfriendly skies once again, as Namco Bandai has today announced that Ace Combat Assault Horizon will be released on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Set for release next year, the game will be the first console iteration in the series since 2007's Xbox 360-exclusive Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation.

Assault Horizon will be the series' first flight on PS3.
Namco Bandai confirmed single-player and online multiplayer options for Assault Horizon, but few other details were given about the latest effort from series developer Project Aces. A teaser trailer suggested the game will be a rebirth for the franchise, with one quickly glimpsed text message at the outset promising, "This one's a game changer." The clip showed dogfights through downtown skyscrapers that jettisoned debris when struck with missiles, helicopter battles, and turret-gunning sequences.

While a new Ace Combat hasn't been seen on consoles in nearly three years, the series has since appeared on the handheld radar a couple of times. Last year saw the debut of Ace Combat Xi: Skies of Incursion for the iPhone, while the PSP receives its second installment of the franchise, Ace Combat: Joint Assault, later this month.



NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe kicks the tires, lights the fires and makes its peace with terra firma for the announcement of ACE COMBAT ASSAULT HORIZON, coming 2011 to Xbox 360® and PlayStation®3. Never before has aerial combat been so fast, so in-your-face and so vicious. It’s time to set the sky on fire.

The demanding Project Aces development team at NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc. in Japan weren’t satisfied. They wanted more from the series. They wanted planes that tore apart limb from limb right in front of your face, spewing their oil lifeblood across the sky. They wanted to scrape the streets and dodge the steel skyscrapers of real world cities at blistering speeds, in an enthralling war drama that spanned the globe with a web of intrigue. They wanted players to pick up the controller and become deadly combat pilots in seconds, pulling off breathtaking kills at impossible speeds, and doing battle online in a multiplayer sky littered with fiery supersonic debris. What they wanted was steel carnage in the sky.

The result is not a sequel in the multi-million selling smash hit ACE COMBAT series, but a complete rebirth, a phoenix from the ashes flying at three times the speed of sound. The Project Aces team is building ACE COMBAT ASSAULT HORIZON from the ground up, with new technology fuelling their passionately realised vision of a game that puts players in the dark heart of the fight like no aerial combat game has done before.

“For us, this is a rebirth of the Ace Combat series, and a chance for us to take the series in a completely new direction,” said Kazutoki Kono, Producer at Project Aces, NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc. “We’re confident that we’re going to create a new kind of action shooting (high-speed and destruction) experience with ACE COMBAT ASSAULT HORIZON, and we’re pouring passion, vision and skill into making a game like no other. We want to bring players closer than ever to the action so they feel the energy surge through them with every shot fired.”

ACE COMBAT ASSAULT HORIZON for Xbox 360® and PlayStation®3 is scheduled to launch across EMEA and Asia Pacific (not including Japan) in 2011.

Stay in radio contact with ACE COMBAT ASSAULT HORIZON at [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] and watch the skies for more details coming soon.

[Ein]

"Looks cool!"

[hoylguy11]

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee finally

[MegaMortal]

FINALLY! An Ace Combat game on the PS3. I can actually use my PS3!!!!

[Vanity]

woah~ looks great as always!! the press triangle thingy to flip back behind opponent kinda like The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Ace (i think), thats gonna be cool if it really is like that.

[azn]

Rephrase: Yes it does look awesome and all, but what of the epic bgms and the awesome fictional stories?

[the space cadet]

This game looks like it could kick ass. And if it does kick ass, then I'll probably get it. And if I get it, then everyone will be calling me Maverick.

[shirako]

YESS!!! been waiting for this

[ZEE]

notice the lack of seven in the title i wonder were in the time line this takes place looking at the name just after the cataclysm with the meteor?

[azn]

Originally Posted by ZEE

notice the lack of seven in the title i wonder were in the time line this takes place looking at the name just after the cataclysm with the meteor?

It could be like Joint Assault and be set in the real world :/