Ace Combat – Joint Assault
Ace Combat – Joint Assault
Console: PSP (Download Emulator)
Publisher: Namco Bandai Games
Genre: Arcade
Region: EU, US
Released: 26 August 2010
File size: 1.35 GB
While most games in the Ace Combat series take place in fictional worlds, Ace Combat: Joint Assault breaks the mold by setting its chaos in our own. The game sends you soaring over recognizable real-world cities like Tokyo, San Francisco, and London—though these familiar backdrops are quickly overshadowed by the arrival of utterly fantastical threats, including massive, impossible flying fortresses.
You step into the flight suit of a rookie pilot hired by the private military company, Martinez Security. Your initial mission seems straightforward: take down a band of high-tech sky pirates known as Valahia. But don’t get too comfortable—the plot quickly spirals into a far more complex and convoluted web of conspiracies as you progress.
If you’ve played Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception on the PSP, you’ll feel right at home with the gameplay. It follows the same solid foundation: you pilot a licensed, real-world fighter jet from a third-person or cockpit view, diving into intense dogfights and dodging a hail of enemy missiles. Mission objectives are typically about wiping out a specific number of targets or taking down a colossal boss. Your paycheck from completed missions is used to buy new planes or upgrade your current hangar, with each aircraft boasting unique strengths. You’ll need to choose carefully, whether you need an agile fighter for air superiority or a heavy bomber to pound ground targets into dust. The campaign itself features a branching mission tree, forcing you to make choices that determine your next objective.
The game introduces two major new features. The first is an “enhanced combat view” that zooms in for a more cinematic look at the action, a stylistic choice that contrasts with the real-world long-range nature of modern air combat. The standout addition is a full co-op mode for the entire campaign. In these missions, up to four players can team up and are sometimes split into separate teams to tackle different branching objectives simultaneously. Beyond the co-op campaign, the standard versus multiplayer modes return from Skies of Deception but now support up to eight players, doubling the previous chaos.
