Ace Combat: Infinity is the latest entry in the series from Namco Bandai. It's a free to play game available to download on the PSN for the PS3, but despite being free to play, it has a lot to offer.
Players are introduced to the different aspects of the game in campaign mode, which features a decent story line that is told through both the missions and a brief history lesson of sorts in between for those who are unfamiliar with the series. It's rather short, but Namco Bandai has plans to expand it over time. There is also a test flight mode, which nervous fliers can use to hone their skills before facing live fire, but the co-op missions are the real heart of Infinity's game-play.
During co-op missions, players are sent on one of eight different sorties and split into two teams of four: "Alpa" and "Bravo". Each team attempts to take down more targets than the other in order to receive bonus credits, which you can use to purchase new aircraft and upgrades once they've been unlocked through research, both of which occur as you continue to play the game. As of right now, there is no versus mode, but Namco Bandai has plans to add one in the future.
As this is a free to play game, your ability to go on missions, either in campaign mode or co-op, is limited to the use of either "stored" or "supplied" units of "fuel" for your aircraft. "Supplied fuel" is replenished over time and has a maximum of three units, while "stored fuel" is gained through events, missions, and challenges, which require the player to meet certain criteria for rewards, and can be stacked without any foreseeable limit. You can also purchase fuel and unlimited access to campaign mode on the PSN if you'd like. Players also do not have to use fuel to play in test flight mode.
Overall, Ace Combat: Infinity is an excellent game, regardless of its free to play status. Playing co-op missions and unlocking new aircraft, weapons, and upgrades is a lot of fun, and the challenges add to the replay value. The text chat is limited to preset phrases, which can make communicating difficult unless you have a microphone, but players with different levels of ping can play together relatively smoothly as long as the difference isn't too great.
It's not perfect, but it's free, so you won't experience buyer's remorse. If you have a PS3 that is connected to the internet, you should definitely give Ace Combat: Infinity a shot.
After four years of pitched online aerial battles, Ace Combat Infinity's live servers have been shut down by Bandai Namco.
Never played Ace Combat Infinity online because it seemed as though I had to buy things like fuel, I could have been wrong about that, but decided not to get into the game. Always been a fan of Ace Combat since Ace Combat2, favorite being Ace Combat5 then 4 then zero. Drawing a blank right now on Ace Combat3.
Saw an article last week stating that Ace Combat4,5 and zero are being considered for remasters or remakes for the current generation. The article was more of a job listing, so it may take a while to come to fruition if ever. Here's hoping that it does happen.
Never got into this tried but was turned off by the nonsense of MT involved with it. Cant wait for the new VR supported new game though.
Heart skipped a beat when I first read the headline. Initially thought it was talking about the latest AC in development (Skies Unknown).
A few days before PlayStation Experience, DualShockers reported on a leak of the announcement of Ace Combat 7 at the event, thanks to eagle-eyed Japanese dataminers that found out information about a related challenge in Ace Combat Infinity. The leak proved accurate afterwards, and the rest is history.
Starting today, you can actually take part in that challenge, and win four emblems themed after Ace Combt 7, with an event running until January 19th in Ace Combat Infinity.
Sounds like they are hoping to get some extra money from AC Infinity. They want people to start playing their free-to-play game so u can try earning emblems for a game that has no release date. More than likely you will have to spend money on fuel trying to earn those emblems, making Namco/Bandai extra coin. No thank you i will just wait for AC7 to release and be satisfied, I dont need any special emblems that Im not even going to notice as I fly.
A while ago, Ace Combat Producer Kazutoki Kono mentioned in an interview that a current generation Ace Combat game was being considered, and we might finally see the results at PlayStation Experience.
Some eagle-eyed Japanese fans datamined the files of the latest update of Ace Combat Infinity and discovered references to a very interesting event revealing the announcement of Ace Combat 7.
VR would be great but I would love to see an ace combat like the days of old. More like ace combat 5 the unsung war or similar to the free release infinity that came on PS3. With the power of the ps4 and the story driven ability of the older titles, we could see a true return to form ace combat. Add VR support and give us a great story and over the top action, im sold.
Ace 7 great ..i hope to be grounded with real world jets (as the previous one) ...but with a lot less ridiculous plot (not again bad russian nationalists and other dumb fk holywood ideas)
I would love that! Been waiting forever for a new "real" Ace Combat title.
Can't wait to see this reveal next weekend at PSX live myself if indeed true. Hopefully a playable demo will be there. One now my favorite Namco series.
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I'd be surprised to see Ace go exclusive, but I wouldn't be surprised if Sony threw some weight behind the publishing and developing of it. Ace is one of the few games I thought would fit VR perfectly since it became big news.
the last game, Ace Combat Infinity, was also exclusive to the PS3 so wouldn't surprise me one bit if this is PS4 exclusive.
Bandai Namco made a few (Tekken Revolution, SoulCalibur Lost Sword and Ace Combat Infinity) F2P titles exclusive to PS3 because of Microsofts bizarre approach to F2P games. Also, F2P is a fairly lucrative business model in Japan, unlike Microsoft, so they didn't bother trying.
Bandai Namco is bringing One Piece to XONE. I doubt, without Sony intervening, that Ace will be PS4 exclusive.
Ace Combat 6 was exclusive to the 360. I just bought it used with the hopes of it being BC on the xbone someday.
Haven't quite a few games in the series been exclusive before?
Why would you be surprised?
Particularly with the PS4 doing as well as it is, I don't see why any mutiplat game going exclusive would be a surprise right now.
