Looking back, Ace Combat: Assault Horizon failed commercially enough that Bandai Namco panicked. For five years, the franchise went silent. Many thought it was dead.
DFM made Assault Horizon incredibly cinematic. The camera work is dizzyingly cool. You’ll fly between skyscrapers, clip past bridge towers, and perform zero-altitude pulls that would turn a real pilot into red paste. For a casual player picking up a controller for one weekend, the power fantasy is undeniable. Ace Combat- Assault Horizon
Project Aces also attempted to diversify the gameplay by adding flyable AH-64 Apache helicopters, AC-130 gunship segments, and door-gunner levels. While they break up the monotony, they often feel like shallow, heavily-scripted filler compared to the high-speed jet combat. clip past bridge towers