Ace Combat: Joint Assault for PSP brings Ace Combat into the real world

by JC Fletcher on Jan 12th 2010 2:30PM

Recently, a Namco Bandai trademark for "Joint Assault" was discovered, but the identity of the project using that title was unknown. We didn't have to wait long to find out, as Namco just announced Ace Combat: Joint Assault, a new release in its flight action series for PSP.

Joint Assault features four-player co-op (playable online through adhocParty), new AI, and some kind of new "Enhanced Combat View" which, according to IGN, is designed to "bring the fighting up close and personal to take things away from the RADAR-heavy battles." Adding to the "enhancement" of the "view" is the fact that missions will now take place over real-life cities instead of the fictionalized nations in which the (ace) combat usually occurs.

Joint Assault will be released this summer in Asia and EMEA territories, and "this year" in North America.

Ace Combat: Joint Assault

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Tags: ace-combat, ace-combat-joint-assault, bandai-namco, namco-bandai

Reader Comments (18)

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OMFG I'M THIRD! WE CAN COUNT- IT'S SO COOOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But in all seriousness, I really want a good Ace Combat on PSP. I love flight/dog fight sims and the PSP is actually pretty well suited for them. Please.... make this good !

Looks neat. Fighter jets could use some renewed encoolmentizing.

Man, the Wii has come a long way since launch! Very impressive!

I know you're making a joke, but couldn't you have saved it for a Wii-related story?

If he did that, it wouldn't look like a joke.

...still waiting for an Ace Combat for PS3.

But I'd want to see an Ace Combat set in the setting's 1950s, where the first jet fighters were only primarily armed air-to-air with machine guns and autocannon.

So you want Crimson Skies for the PS3, in essence.

Speaking of Ace Combat set in the 1950s and on the Wii...

http://www.bandainamcogames.co.jp/cs/list/sky_crawlers/

Ace Combat for PlayStation 3.

Please Namco...

THIS!

It needs to happen. Why won't Namco share the love?!

An Ace Combat set in the real world?

What?

You must never have played one haha Or perhaps not played one past the halfway point, when alien/futuristic technological fighters and battleships and superguns start appearing.

:P

Au contraire. I have played every single Ace Combat game at least once, and own every single one except for Advance, Zero, and Six. I'm fully aware of all the crazy superweapons and such that are featured in the games, thus it seems you misunderstood my comment there.

Making an Ace Combat that is set in the real world just seems rather... oddball to me. The whole fictional world thing has worked out well so far and really helps set the Ace Combat games apart from other arcade flight games, so I don't really see why they need to bring this one into the real world. It just doesn't seem right.