Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Preview

BoydofZINJ

Flight simulators have been on the down and down for ages. It is either too arcade type or too realistic. Even though it was not a real flight sim, I enjoyed games like Wing Commander and Privateer (the Wing Commander sand box-ish game) for its story telling and X-Wing and Tie Fighter for the joys of flying and fighting. However, some of the old classic flying games like Microprose F-19 Stealth Fighter released in 1988 (DOS) was my all time favorite. It was a good mixture of action and realism, but did bog you down on the realism. It was a good happy mix. Then most of the flight sims seemed to increase in realism. I remember playing a video game called Tornado which is a combat flight simulator computer game by Digital Integration modeling the Panavia Tornado and released in 1993 for DOS. That game was so difficult that I had trouble landing on normal settings and HAD to rely on the computer to use the automatic pilot. Other games after that got harder and harder on realism. Keep in mind, a computer or tv screen is limited on the ways you can interact with the world and subtle differences of wind could be loss in the digital person and yet it was effecting flight to a large degree. oh well. I am interested in this game, anyhow and I am showing my age.