ACE: Air Combat Emulator
DOS version
An early attempt at making flight-sims.
The Good
The title screen, taking off and ā¦ exiting the game. Help me out here?
The Bad
There are basically 4 scenarios. Fighting ground forces. Fighting enemy aircraft. Fighting naval forces. Re-fueling. I didnāt like any of them.
I really did try with this game. It was the first game I ever bought. I spent much time trying to fight aircraft, tanks and battleships to no avail.
ACE wasnāt 3D as it was made in 1986. The enemy aircraft used to annoy me most of all. They would fly across the screen on random paths and the only time you hit one was when it flew through your gun-sights.
Tanks used to just appear on the screen looking much the same as the trees.
The navy used to toast you right off as they were supposed to be attacked last.
Re-fueling was a nightmare. Precision keypresses and patience. I donāt think I docked once.
The Bottom Line
A dismal flight-sim. Maybe it was better on the C64 version. Maybe I couldnāt play the game. Maybe I didnāt careā¦
by Macintrash (2550) on May 8th, 2000