Ace Combat X - multiplayer hands-on

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The best action-flight series finally gets fragtastic

The Ace Combat series pretty much embodies the best parts of screaming through the skies at mach speeds and showering targets with body-roasting missiles. Until now, this experience has been limited to single-player or relatively bland, split-screen versus matches. Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception introduces four-player dogfights with dozens of options for customization.

While we'vealready covered each multiplayer mode, earlier this week we actually spent some time with the Dog Fight, Base Assault and Air Superiority options. Control has been slightly tweaked from the PS2 games to accommodate the PSP's lack of buttons, but in mere moments we were cutting loops and weaving past missiles like it was second nature. The multiplayer maps we soared through felt flatter than the console ones, but with three people hurling missiles at you, that may not matter.

Brett Elston
Brett Elston

A fomer Executive Editor at GamesRadar, Brett also contributed content to many other Future gaming publications including Nintendo Power, PC Gamer and Official Xbox Magazine. Brett has worked at Capcom in several senior roles, is an experienced podcaster, and now works as a Senior Manager of Content Communications at PlayStation SIE.