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One of the best of the series.

I really want to like it because I was a MASSIVE fan of Ace Combat since the days of CAP 22, Ace 2, Distant Thunder (especially) and so on, but the switch to 'real world Earth' as opposed to their alternate one has really stuck in my craw. Plus Ace Combat 6 was a complete bust for me. The acting in that was just so... horribly, horribly, horribly, horribly, horribly, horribly, AWFUL, it was bad enough to overshadow the game for me. I think the series peaked for me with Ace 4 Distant Thunder and The Belkan War. I hope this one is better, but my instincts say some of you are right in thinking they're trying to appeal to a young, COD playing audience. If so, I'm out. *EDIT* Is it just US aircraft you can fly (all the lists I've seen so far seem to indicate this) or will European, Russian and other aircraft be flyable as well? I can't see the point to playing it if it's only going to be limited to a narrow selection of aircraft...

This thing would kick the SM-62's butt cold. Kiwi industry makes some seriously nice gear, but like Australia, suffer from officials with no foresight. They could make a killing from this.

Aside from doing that, with Jessica Biel looking like a body builder having only just come off of shooting Blade 3... No dude. I think you're mistaken. Tantamount to Stalinist revision of history... Heresy!

Your efforts are much appreciated Erik!

Yes, that's not bad, but this one would give it a run for it's money...

Niiiiiiiiice...

Didn't they say all they needed to with Bangin' Housewives 4: Bangin' with Mr. Cooper?? Anyways, I thought they were already making a sequel to Top Gun. Something about Pete Mitchell being a long time instructor and vet of several wars taking on a group of new generation pilots, or something like that. Sounded a bit Stealth to me. Now there's a movie that desperately needs to be forgotten...

Have a good one dude!

E.P.I.C.

I started (way back when) by just checking out some of the existing campaigns and going from there. It's an easy way of learning how the air and ground elements are organised. You can see what you have and add subtract units as you see fit. When you get into establishing or changing target areas, carrier stations and whatnot, that's when it get a little more difficult but not overwhelmingly so.

Jesus...

10 years ago to the minute... RIP to all.

K, I don't want to be that guy, but that looks a little photoshopped just at first glance... Ooh, I feel so dirty suggesting it may be 'fake'.

Just pathetic...

I was leaving my sister's place after finishing a shift at a pub I was working at at the time when the initial report was shown on TV (just an update they normally have around 8:30pm so nothing more than "a plane has hit a WTC tower). So I'm driving home and I call a friend of mine and tell her about how some apparently some idiot has flown his Cessna into one of the trade towers and we have a bit of a chuckle about it because, you know, what moron misses seeing the two GIANT towers in NY on a crystal clear sunny day, right? By the time I got home, there was blanket coverage on all channels and I think I walked in a few minutes before the second plane hit. Once that happened, there was no doubt that this wasn't a mistake by some amateurish pilot. I think my folks and I sat there watching the horror unfold until around 2am. It wasn't until I got to work the next day that the stuff I thought was debris falling off the buildings were in fact people... that sick realisation stuck with me for a few days. I got that again years later when I heard the Kevin Cosgrove 911 call.

Man... Pavol Dimitra, Igor Korolev and Alexander Karpotsev were on this flight...

Nothin' wrong with the people in Frisco...

Worth watching just for this scene:

This is a bit awkward, but I also find that deselecting your IRM, deselecting and reacquiring your target and reselecting your IRM can help reset undesirable locks with IRMs with high off-boresight capability. The number of times I've had a newly created fireball just out of view attract a second IR shot like a giant flare has caused me reassess how approach knife fights. It isn't always successful and sometimes you just have to deal with a wasted shot, but it has upped my kill percentage noticeably. Also, IDing any friendlies in your FOV before and timing the shot to avoid blue on blue is critical. You can never guarantee where an IRM will go if you fire in a direction with multiple aircraft, but you can work some of the variables out of the equation.

Sweet, that looks like the old ARDU scheme before they switched to the Fanta scheme.

It looks a somewhat awkward arrangement (because there are smaller dual racks out there), but it's looking pretty sweet. The J-10's a very sweet piece of kit!

Such a gritty movie...

Dammit, I've really gotta get off my dot and convert all my gear to SF2 standard!

Glorious!