21-Apr-2010 - Ace of Skies

[jimmy_jim]

Take to the skies with a stiff upper lip!

 

Today, we're proud to announce the launch (or should that be 'take-off'?) of our spiffing top-down shooter, Ace of Skies - giving you the chance to prove your worth as an ace pilot.

 

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• Give the rotters 'what for' over 20 challenging levels
  
• Collect 4 strategic plane upgrades - each with 12 grades
  
• Call in up to 6 skilled wingmen for backup
  
• Take on the never-ending Arcade mode for the ultimate challenge
  

 

Fly sharp and do us proud - and remember: stiff upper lip at all times!

 

Mod Gabriel

FunOrb Content Editor

[Oathkeeper]

20 levels?!

Never saw that when I skimmed the newspost. Man, I can't even get past the first ten. Oh well, practice makes perfect and so on.

 

It's nice to have a singleplayer game again, something that is a 'work lunchbreak' game. Admitadly I suck really bad at it, but hey, an updates an update.

[Den]

I thought the game was rather fun, and I agree its more of a lunchbreak game then the recent ones have been.

 

I also like the feeling of seeing other planes fall after shooting them. :P

[Ezz]

I tried it, I like it that they are still making a few more arcadeish games :)

[Troacctid]

I was thoroughly unexcited at the release and I only tried it for the first time today. I'm not impressed. I do really like the way the planes crash after you shoot them down--it's a supremely satisfying little animation. But the camera controls just kill it. You can't see behind you. In a game where you travel in an open field in all directions with a top-down view, you need the camera to be centered so that you can see what's coming up behind you. Okay, sure, so that's not how it is in a real plane, but if that's what the developers were shooting for (hehe), why isn't it a first-person view?

 

Quite frankly, I don't see any reason to play Ace of Skies. Starcannon is a far more entertaining and addictive shooter than this flying-blindly-in-circles mess, and even Stellar Shard is a better execution of the same concept despite being a blatant Asteroids ripoff.

[TTanT]

I was thoroughly unexcited at the release and I only tried it for the first time today. I'm not impressed. I do really like the way the planes crash after you shoot them down--it's a supremely satisfying little animation. But the camera controls just kill it. You can't see behind you. In a game where you travel in an open field in all directions with a top-down view, you need the camera to be centered so that you can see what's coming up behind you. Okay, sure, so that's not how it is in a real plane, but if that's what the developers were shooting for (hehe), why isn't it a first-person view?

 

Quite frankly, I don't see any reason to play Ace of Skies. Starcannon is a far more entertaining and addictive shooter than this flying-blindly-in-circles mess, and even Stellar Shard is a better execution of the same concept despite being a blatant Asteroids ripoff.

 

Radar= not flying blindly.