In a near-future world transformed by disorder, adapt and overcome dynamically-changing battlegrounds with the help of your squad and a cutting-edge arsenal.Īt the eleventh hour, there’s no time to hesitate. If you’ve always wished there was an Ace Combat game that had the gameplay loop of a roguelite, Project Wingman is here for you.Buy the Battlefield™ 2042 cross-gen bundle and get both the Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S versions.īattlefield™ 2042 is a first-person shooter that marks the return to the iconic all-out warfare of the franchise. You start with a basic plane and take on wave after wave of enemies until you finally get shot down, then you spend your prestige to try again with a newer, better plane and a few perks. Something that Ace Combat fans have long asked for is aircraft that can carry multiple different types of special weapons, and Project Wingman lets players do exactly that thanks to an innovative hardpoint and slot system.Ĭonquest is another interesting addition that strips away the thin veneer of plot and turns Project Wingman into a roguelite.
It even improves on the Ace Combat formula in some ways. On higher difficulties, enemy fighters can be challenging opponents, and at times the world can be filled with so many missiles and bullets that it takes true skill to survive. It’s just as satisfying putting a missile up the tailpipe of an enemy fighter in Project Wingman as it is in any previous Ace Combat game. That said, Project Wingman does a phenomenal job of populating a world where all you do is fly around shooting things. But after 21 missions, I find myself in the curious position of almost longing for a civilian aircraft to escort or some reason to fly through a narrow canyon just to break things up. Now I gotta admit, the most fun I’ve ever had in an Ace Combat mission is when I’m given hundreds of bad guys to shoot, and Project Wingman essentially just gives you a 21-mission campaign of exactly that. Every mission in Project Wingman essentially boils down to “go here, shoot things.” The only variety you get is in the things you shoot, how you shoot them, and why you’re shooting them at all. Mission complexity is another space where Project Wingman falls short. It’s a little thing, but it’s a reminder that Project Wingman is an indie game that simply doesn’t have the manpower to carefully manicure every fluffy white thing in the sky.
In Project Wingman, I can sort of see the outline of a cloud-shaped tileset. In Ace Combat 7, I can fly into the upper atmosphere, look down, and see the tops of thunderheads. By and large, Project Wingman is a very pretty game that ensures its planes look great in the waning light of a setting sun, but the same can't be said for smoke and cloud effects.
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