Ace Combat 2 Is A Near-Perfect Sequel...
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- čas přidán 19. 11. 2023
- So after the release of Air Combat, Namco knew that they had a new hit on their hands. The game sold over 2 million copies, yet the dev team at the time felt like they could’ve made a better game than they did. Wanting to improve things like graphics and gameplay, the team immediately got to work on a sequel, and after a couple years of hard work, Ace Combat 2 was born. So how does Ace Combat 2 improve on the foundation laid out by Air Combat, and how does it hold up today? Well, let’s talk about it.
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Ace Combat 2 is a 1997 air combat video game developed and published for the PlayStation by Namco. It is the sequel to Air Combat and the second in the Ace Combat franchise. The player controls one of 24 different fighter jets through 21 different missions with certain objectives to fulfill, such as protecting a base from enemy fire, intercepting a squadron of enemies, or taking down an aircraft carrier.
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I think the reason you have to fly faster at high altitude is that, in real life, because the air gets thinner at higher altitudes, planes have to compensate with extra thrust because the thin air doesn't generate enough lift. Cool Detail.
A thing worth noting is that the red enemy ace fighters you encounter in the game called Z.O.E. (Zone of Endless) is actually a series of aircrafts carrying autonomous super Ai, which in a way is Ace Combat's counterpart of Armored Core's Nine Ball, they might be a little less important in this game but you'll get to see them again having much more impact on the story in the future titles
IDK why you told em that so early, it takes many games for that retcon to get important. And FYI, its not just taking one of the ZOEs down, its taking em all down in the game to get the proper ending.
One of the ZOE airplanes is a Morgan, wich happens to be the final boss plane in AC Z
@@mmacionk2 not really
@@the-er1wj you're right, it was an ADF-01
I said it on the first Ace Combat video, but I will say it again just to be sure you understand, if you play Ace Combat 3 you HAVE to play the Japanese version with the English fan translation. It cannot be overstated how messed up the western release was. It is missing the plot, lots of missions, animated cutscenes and more. Two drastically different experiences. I think Ace Combat 3 is one of the best in the series and easily the most impressive in terms of developer talent for the time. Just a crazy good game, but this praise is mostly towards the Japanese version specifically.
The Japanese version of AC3 is a really ambitious game compared to its predecessors and quickly became one of my top 3 Ace Combat games. Story, presentation and gameplay, it set the standard for the rest of the series moving forward. If I could sacrifice something to have just one game remade it would be AC3. Its art style would look amazing in a modern game engine.
If you think AC2 is so good, I can't wait for the tears of joy when you experience the perfect PS2 era games.
My introduction to this series was 4 (never had a PSOne). Good game. However, 5 sealed the deal for me and been with this series ever since outside of handheld and Infinity, and lamenting I never could play the previous titles. Though I do remember playing the Air Combat demo on someone else's PSOne.
Fun fact: This game has a Nintendo 3DS remake subtitled Assault Horizon Legacy/3D Cross Rumble. It adds new gameplay elements, new features and adds story elements that were established in the PS2 Ace Combat games.
oh wow I never knew that was a remake of this, that's sick
I forgot to mention it has a Plus update that adds New 3DS and Amiibo support, which you use to unlock special versions of certain planes.
Ace Combat 2 was my introduction to the series and it’s honestly the perfect arcade game that still holds up to this day
Ace Combat 3D Cross Rumble for the Nintendo 3DS (Assault Horizon Legacy in the US) is a remake of this game, with a story that's recontextualized in the wider universe of Strangereal.
That game makes Ace Combat 2 take place canonically about a few years right after the Belkan War, and features a civil war on the Usean continent (the same continent as AC04.)
Tyler Island is gonna be important later.
My first Ace Combat was Ace Combat 2; I play through it religiously (at least once a year) and it still never ceases to make my happy. Everything from the early lore to just how good a game it actually is for a PS1 game.
The soundtrack is 10/10, the choice of aircraft is 10/10 and I honestly think it's graphically 10/10 (given that me and the game are the same age at least).
I really hope you enjoy the PS2 era games because they only get better and better. AC5 is up there with some of the greatest games of all time in my opinion.
I'm fucking incredibly jealous that you get to experience these games for the first time, what a treat ❤️
Awww dude seeing that YF-22 is awesome in its low poly glory is great
>AC1: "We don't need to discuss the story here."
>AC2: "The story is about the same, so we don't need to go over it."
>AC3 sits on the horizon.
I've just finished the game and also went directly to the golden ending by accident.
It's sort of odd having enemy aces named in the briefings rather than do esoteric stuff to unlock them so I eded up killing all of them including the one that unlocked the optional endings.
Also being able to map the joystick properly made it much more fun to play than Air Combat, I hate flying with digital controls in general.
This game also introduced the first (and my personal favourite) recurring character, Lt. Kei Nagase call sign Edge
Love AC2, I remember telling my friends about it when I was in 4th grade.
Get ready for AC3 and beyond its gonna melt your mind!
while Air Combat was a fun arcade flight game, that held the core gameplay loop for the franchise. Ace Combat 2 as it's name suggests is where it started to become "Ace Combat". things like those post-mission recaps are a staple that stays around and only becomes more entertaining as time goes on, the planes will keep getting better both looks and feels wise, and having rival Aces that feel significantly better than the grunts are like pb&j for this franchise. glad to see you are taking people's advice to play the English patched version of the Japanese release for the next entry. because "Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere" is where the developers finally got comfy enough to take off their training wheels & went off the rails. where multiple series staples would find their footing.
put your headphones on kiddos, listen to some tasty tunes and strap yourself into the cockpit, the simillarities between Armored Core and Ace Combat are going to get wild
I also started getting into the Ace Combat franchise last year, by playing the PS1 games first, and it's pretty cool to see my thoughts echoed by your reviews.
Great video! i hope you talk more about the music in the next videol
Loving your recaps a lot. You mentioned these games having some banger tracks so far; music’s an important part of the game for a lot of people. Would it be too much to ask for a little segment or comment on some of your favorite ones from each game as you continue along, or to faintly overlay some of the ones you liked in the background or something of the like?
I definitely should talk about the music more often, it keeps slipping my mind while I'm writing 😅
Haven't played the original first three Ace Combat games. This was very interesting for me. I look forward to this deep dive.
Been with AC since 2. So nice to see someone else go through the series fresh and fall in love with it just like I did when I was 8.
I’m so excited for when you reach 4 and 5, they’re some of my favorites in the series
I found Zero to be a fun time as well.
He did bruh
Holy shit, a lot of things and mechanics that only get perfected later that i never thought would be introduced so early
Maybe this is why it's the first actual "Ace Combat" entry
Also the Z.O.E. planes showing up at the end too, never thought they had plans for that story thread so early
Another really interesting review. Something that's not covered enough is the amount of graphical fidelity that can be achieved within the same hardware. Improving games on every level without breaking the things that made it great in the first place has to feel like an achievement for the developers.
Keep it up, and It would be nice, if You play and review Mech Warrior or Wing Commander games in the future.
AC2 was my first AC game. it was love at first sight
AC2 is my favorite AC (alongside Assault Horizon Legacy+ [3ds remake of 2] and 3) so this video being so positive is nice to see and pretty much has my opinions on it tho if I made this 70% of it would've been me gushing about the graphics and music (Sunset Glows bass line alone is so good it makes some other full OSTs weep.)
Something to note for AC3
Pls play the fan translation of the JP version
You are going to be Heavily disappointed otherwise
Nice review, I really enjoyed these two and surely will the next ones!
Will you play the handheld games too? Not the nokia or gameboy ones but at least X I heard is a must play. The first three, and the handheld are the only ones I haven't played so these videos are incredibly interesting, and I'm ready for the nostalgia trip too!
< See you there, buddy >
Unless anything changes between now and then, I currently plan on doing the handhelds 🙂
Should we tell him, bois?
Ace Combat 3 is gonna blow his socks off
👀
Replayed it thrice this month on my PSone.
Beautiful game!
this is also the only game in the series to get a remake with Assault Horizon Legacy on the 3DS
Great video!
This is a game I'm reasonably sure I missed, but it's good to know if I'd picked it up I would have liked it, since I enjoyed the first one.
He’s not ready for Ace Combat 3
He's not ready for whats to come
Next one will be ace combat 3 USA or japanese?
Japanese release for sure 🙂
Make sure you get the fan translation, they cut a shit ton of stuff in the us release
@@notcole Mentioned this on a comment in the previous video but I'll mention it again in case you missed it. Make sure to the the Load Word Team translation for AC3. Its way more complete compared to the original Project Nemo translation project which didn't complete all the lore text entries and also made some general translation improvements.
I've played ace combat 7 and its psvr1 mode on ps4 Pro but I also played ace combat 1, 2 and 3 for nostalgia. Ace combat 4 and 5 on ps2 and Ace combat 6 on 360 were superior to the ps1 and I've played them to death but nothing comes close to the nostalgia I've felt when playing the older games.
The huge jump up from "PSX tech demo" AC1 and the game aged so freaking well it is still enjoyable, so did Namco think and they released the remake
Sony should have made this on PS Classic with Dualshock controllers, such a disgrace to this masterpiece
If only it had 2️⃣🎮
Pay attention to Z.O.E. planes, they'll be important in the future
what you know about bogey dead 6 boy ?
They nerfed the bingo. I am distraught.
I kind of messed the pilot voices in other ace combat games.
wrong
one analog work like the buttons press up and you are pressing triangle button
and other analog works like you know it to day
Missiles are a joke in Ace Combat 2. Now in Air Combat, those missiles are deadly.
Still a good game to me
Lol if you liked the game mechanic where you bought a plane back after you lost them, then you might as well forget it for the rest of the games, because Namco basically did also 😆
Honestly, when I go and replay AC2, I only play on hard for both campaign playthroughs. I think it's the easiest Ace Combat game I've played so far
Get used to trench runs. It's gonna get better and funnier.
And then they made Ace Combat 3...
Uh, the ranks and medals are actually important for the majority of content you unlock in the game. They just dont annouce it like in "modern" games