Battlefield 3 escapes its single player experiment.
Is Jesus your co-pilot? I sure hope so, ‘cause you’re better off with a 2,000 year old carpenter at those helicopter controls than me. Despite my inability to steer the helicopters, I’m still having a blast in Battlefield 3’s multiplayer. The vestigial single player campaign aped from Call of Duty is a different story. But nobody’s buying this game for the single player, and they shouldn’t. Battlefield games mean multiplayer and this installment should make all couch commandos giddy.
Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but Assault Horizon takes it too far.
If Modern Warfare was a rock star, Ace Combat: Assault Horizon would be its psycho groupie stalker. Assault Horizon doesn’t just love Modern Warfare, it wants to be Modern Warfare. Like Buffalo Bill pretending to be a woman by wearing a suit made of skins in Silence of the Lambs, the latest Ace Combat is unsettling in its desire to be something it’s not, which is a real shame because underneath that hand-stitched COD suit is a solid game just begging to be recognized.