MikeMcD

<span class="articleText">It's impossible to deny the influence of Call of Duty. Every game publisher has analysts and consultants whispering in their ear: "Make your game more like COD and your Metascore and sales will shoot through the roof." It's clear that Namco Bandai heeded their advice when making Ace Combat Assault Horizon, and the results are not pretty.
Assault Horizon's story bears some eerie similarity to the Modern Warfare series. Russians? Check. America being attacked? Check. Washington DC? Check. Remember that huge "twist" in the middle of COD 4? They do that one too. All this copying wouldn't be so bad if it was actually done well. Ace Combat's story is dumb. Not COD-style over-the-top dumb either. The narrative is told with an earnestness and lack of self-awareness that only anime-inspired Japanese games can manage. And that's really what the Ace Combat series is: a mecha anime with robots swapped out for planes. It's like they let Snow from Final Fantasy XIII write the script.


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Too hard to be COD? It's a fighter plane game ffs!

And as for a war with Russia vs US, I guess that means all the things that pre-date COD like countless 007 films, the ACTUAL cold war, were also trying to hard to be COD.

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