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Ace Combat: Joint Assault

Platform(s): PSP
Genre: Action
Publisher: Namco Bandai Games
Developer: Project Aces
Release Date: Sept. 7, 2010 (US), Sept. 24, 2010 (EU)

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'Ace Combat: Joint Assault' (PSP) Announced - Screens

by Rainier on Jan. 12, 2010 @ 1:45 a.m. PST

Ace Combat: Joint Assault features accessible and exhilarating gameplay, comprehensive online multiplayer options, while the nail-biting close-quarters combat and incredible visuals are completely re-designed to deliver maximum intensity and an accessible and fun experience for any fan of flight action.

Featuring accessible and exhilarating gameplay, incredible new benchmark visuals, an engrossing single player campaign and comprehensive online multiplayer options, Ace Combat: Joint Assault will once again remind the world why theAce Combat series is the reigning lord of the virtual skies.

Developed by the renowned Project Aces development team at Namco Bandai Games Inc. in Japan,  Ace Combat: Joint Assault is the latest in the acclaimed ACE COMBAT series of flight action games, and the second to appear on PSP following Ace Combat X in 2006.  In the brand new Ace Combat: Joint Assault, the nail-biting close-quarters combat and incredible visuals are completely re-designed to deliver maximum intensity and an accessible and fun experience for any fan of flight action.

Set in the skies over familiar real-world locations including Tokyo, London, San Francisco and more, players will step into the shoes of allied pilots and set out on numerous original missions to obliterate the enemy in fierce tactical dogfights.  The new 'Enhanced Combat View' makes the intense combat more dynamic and believable to the player, making full use of the vast aerial environments to produce an incredible high-speed sensation and let players feel the raw exhilaration of delivering ace shots at supersonic speeds.  All-new multi-strategic AI evolves the mission flow according to the player's choices throughout the campaign for an even richer depth of gameplay experience. 


Alongside the new gameplay features, the team has focussed on producing the best visuals ever seen for a flight game on PSP while also significantly ramping up the online functionality.  Multiplayer gameplay lets ace pilots get even with their foes in the eight player online versus mode, or cooperate with up to four friends in the co-op campaign mode.  Let the tracers fly.

Key Features:

  • Real world setting! Set in the skies over familiar real-world locations including Tokyo, London, San Francisco and more for the first time in the series, players will step into the shoes of allied pilots and set out on numerous original missions to obliterate the enemy in fierce tactical dogfights.
  • Air combat intensified! With the new “Enhanced Combat View” system, enemies and combat is shown closer than ever before. Experience the heightened sense of speed and intensity of combat!
  • Cooperate and complete globally! Engage in infrastructure supported wireless online CO-OP gameplay up to 4 players or VS battle with up to 8 players! Complete all the missions in campaign mode with CO-OP up to 4 players! The new “Joint Assault Mission System” enables you to work through different maps simultaneously and make an effect on each others’ tactical situation, allowing the missions to evolve in multiple branches. You can also prove your supremacy in 8 player wireless online Vs mode. The game supports Ad hoc Party!
  • Fly authentic licensed aircraft! Jump in the cockpits of more than 40 state of the art combat aircraft and tear the skies apart with great ease!
  • And more! More features will be unveiled soon!

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