9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
FA 3.5 Rocks, January 9, 2003
This review is from: Fighter Ace 3.5 Online (CD-ROM)
Right from the first time I flew Fighter Ace 1.5 in open beta I have been hooked.
It's the massive multiplayer aspect of the game I enjoy.
The first time I flew,and got in a furball,I realized there was 70 guys and gals yelling and twisting in their chairs just like me in their own homes.Imagine a room with 250 people in it!
The online community in Fighter Ace is just awesome. We have our own Public News Group,to have fun in or air our woes,and we have unprecedented communications with Jaleco employees and the Fighter Ace Volunteer Group (Systems Operators or Sysops).
Fighter Ace has come a long way from it's Dog Fighting roots.
You can still mix it up in an airiel combat arena or jump into one of the Territorial Combat rooms and battle against other pilots and ground/naval forces.
The other aspect of the game I enjoy is the comraderie of the Squads. These are pilots who have formed squadrons and coordinate their efforts and have a great time doing so.
The game is kept fresh with Weekly and Historical Events put on by the Sysops.
There is also online Help Rooms and Training Programs hosted by the Fighter Ace Volunteer Group (Sysops).
Game play is incredibly smooth on new servers.
In short what we have here is more of a way of life then a Combat Flight Simuator.
Hope to see you in the skies of FA 3.5!
Taka taka taka!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Most advanced MMOG out there, January 29, 2003
This review is from: Fighter Ace 3.5 Online (CD-ROM)
Here is a game that offers a little bit for everyone:
It has Territorial Combat rooms, where the player can pick one of 5 countries to fight for. With others (averaging 250 pilots on any given evening), you can choose to bomb, drop troops, provide fighter cover, or hit tanks.
On the other side, there are simple dogfigting arenas, where you can fly as a team or even in a Free for All arena. The physics are relaxed a bit(unlimited fuel and ammo, no black or redouts) for easy enjoyable gameplay.
On the highest side, the people out for full realism can enjoy all the physics thrown right at them, and fight other planes without seeing their tags first.
This game truly is the cutting edge of MMOG flight sims. Sure, you can go play Battlefield1942 over at laggy gamespy with 32 or less players, but if you want to FLY there, its just silly. Combat Flight Sim and IL2 both are good games, but do not hold a candle to the online immersion of FA3.5.
The community is tight knit, as others have said. Unlike virtually any other game, troublemakers are quickly run off by the everpresent sysops, who really do a great job of keeping gameplay enoyable for all. Lets face it, anyone with any experience in online gaming has faced the "jerk", who is only there to cause trouble and disrupt a good time. FA polices itself well. The few bad ratings this game has got in customer service are from those people, angry I am sure, that for once they were not allowed to disrupt things.
The developers actively fly and converse with players in the newsgroups, something rarely seen in a videogame. The sysops run events week long. From Pin Point Parachuting, Canyon Races, Kings of The Sky (KOTS) Squad Matches, to full blown historical recreations with 1000's of pilots participating, the events are a blast.
Your fellow pilots will quickly become your friends and confidants. After a while, you will want to join a squadron so you can work even better as a team to bring your country to victory in Terrritorial Combat, or hold the KOTS room as champion of up to 5 equal squad matches.
This game truly has it all and I know any online gamer would have a blast in it, given the chance.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Server Stability was fixed as promised., February 4, 2003
This review is from: Fighter Ace 3.5 Online (CD-ROM)
I just read some of the reviews. I dont know how these guys arrived at a customer service being poor aspect. All you have to do is ask anyone in the game. They have help rooms open 24/7. The community dives in to help anyone having trouble anytime I've been in an arena.
I do notice often some people have no patience with new things and blame others for the fact. Your not going to buy this game and be the best overnight. Doesnt happen in any game with actual depth. There are so many planes with definitive characteristics to master it can be overwhelming. Recognizing a bogie aircraft and combat manuevers take alot of practice as well as gunnery. Ballistics are modeled realistically as possible in weapon rate of fire, mass, muzzle velocity and trajectory. I wouldn't recommend trying to dogfight an interceptor with a torpedoe bomber unless you've been playing awhile. =)
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