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Similarly half-assed are the controls, which dispense with Ace Combat standards in favor of – ugh – motion controls. You’ll have to swap hands for this one, because the Nunchuk sits in your right and the remote in your left, with the ‘chuk controlling pitch and yaw and the remote functioning as an accelerator with tilting motions. Naturally, it’s rubbish, but you’ll be pleasantly surprised to find it detects your GameCube or Classic controller so long as it’s plugged in before loading the game, which immediately makes the dumpo controls redundant.
It’s a neat twist on the Ace Combat formula – a formula that already forms the core of the best arcadey aerial shooter series ever made. You can put your faith in Project Aces and Namco when it comes to shooting planes full of holes, even, it seems, when shackled to the 10-tonne movie licence anchor. When it comes to planes, Namco can do no wrong: not on PS2, not on PSP, not on 360, and – at last – not on Wii.
Jan 12, 2010
