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News by Tom Bramwell

13 April, 2006

Namco's planning to add Ace Combat to the list of PS2 game series to make the jump sideways to PSP.

Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception will join the likes of Ridge Racer and Tekken Dark Resurrection on the Sony handheld, offering a mixture of campaign-based single-player plane-shootery and (seemingly ad hoc) wireless multiplayer.

In a piece in this week's Famitsu, translated by IGN, Namco says that Skies of Deception (or SOD - actually, perhaps not) will feature an original storyline told through CG cut-scenes, in which you play as a pilot in the Gryphus Squadron of the Federal Republic of Aurelia.

The piece names four planes - the F-14D Super Tomcat, Tornado F3, F2-A and MIG-31 Foxhound - which you'll be able to fine-tune, and says the game's missions will change dynamically based on your choice of strategy.

There will also be four-player wireless support - not just for dog-fighting, but for a bit of co-op combat too.

It's due out this autumn in Japan, so expect to hear Namco talking about it a bit more in the coming months - perhaps at E3.

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UncleLou
13/04/06 @ 13:49
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As much as I love Ace Combat, I think it needs to be played on a big enough screen to create a feeling of height and vertigo.
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Flight games with homing missles take all the fun out of it for me.

I want dog fights with machin guns and old style straight missiles.

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Its not so bad if you have to maintain a lock on (say by keeping the target in a cone on the hud).

Ace Combat needs more Tom Cruise though :)
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13/04/06 @ 18:18
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More games... choice... good, good....

/remembers an idiot from a movies studio complaining that the PSP "is a games player, period" LOL
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13/04/06 @ 18:22
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ace combat was errr...ace :)
Luigi
13/04/06 @ 18:35
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Great news, great game!! ... But we need more "new" games instead of porting the existing ones from the PS2.
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It's not a port, it's a new game in an existing series. There's a difference.
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What we really want is full infrastructure play on more titles.

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