Rating: 
Summary: Technical Masterpiece
Review: Pick a country and a plane and a strategy to match your temperament. Bombers, troop transports, fighter bombers, and fighters. High flying fast fighters, low flying quick turning fighters, fighters with big cannons, nimble fighters with machine guns. Enter the arena of your choice, there are free for all rooms, arcade style rooms with easy settings, territorial conquest rooms where teams take territory, and advanced rooms for the most realism. If you are new, just ask for help and you will have some new friends right away. Awesome graphics, clouds and blue sky, rain and shine, day and night time, sun and moon and wind and water. Airports, towns, factories, oceans. Ships, tanks, railroads, bridges. But not all is peaceful and beautiful. There are enemy bombers coming, and if you just sit there beside the runway, you might get hit by one! Avoid the potholes in the runway as the bombs explode around you while you take off. Watch out for the bomber cover plane coming in behind you, circle back into the base antiaircraft fire to let it tear him up! That'll teach him for trying to get you while taking off! Ten minutes into the game, and your adrenaline is already flowing. You can jump right into the action and risk everything right away, or you can switch to a quiet base and build up some altitude and speed before engaging with the enemy. Team up with some friends and see if you can dominate your corner of the map. You can fly formation with them on autopilot. You can use radar, map view, and enemy padlock view to keep an eye on the enemy and prevent anyone from jumping you unawares. This game has the best view controls of any flight simulator. In addition to the expected hat switch views, you can quickly switch views between nearest enemy, next enemy, and friendly planes. With practice, you can hold these views through dogfighting maneuvers without becoming disoriented. Because of this, it has the most intense action of any flight simulator. Pilots quickly learn situational awareness, and a good thing, too, because it can be very dangerous in there. You soon find out that it pays to know the strong points and weak points of your own and your enemy's plane, and try to gain the advantage by using tactics that will favor your strengths. The result, flying against all real people in the game, is an endless series of combinations that never gets boring or repetitive. There is always more to learn, someone you just can't beat, more territory to take, another level to explore. The game is playable on lower end computers as long as the settings are adjusted accordingly. The interaction is designed to take place over phone modem connections. Of course, if you have a higher speed connection, the game play is a little more stable, although a high percentage of players do just fine with dialup connections. And, if you have a higher end system, the game is designed to take advantage of that, too. High resolution graphics are absolutely stunning with late model video cards. The game has gone through several iterations and there were some bugs to be worked out. The game programmers have tirelessly worked to perfect the game, and the major issues have been resolved. The fun factor is back, and this game is ready for prime time! This game would be a great flight simulator even without the online play. The online play makes the game addictive. And the friends you make in the game will keep you coming back for years.
Rating:
Summary: Technical Masterpiece
Review: Pick a country and a plane and a strategy to match your temperament. Bombers, troop transports, fighter bombers, and fighters. High flying fast fighters, low flying quick turning fighters, fighters with big cannons, nimble fighters with machine guns. Enter the arena of your choice, there are free for all rooms, arcade style rooms with easy settings, territorial conquest rooms where teams take territory, and advanced rooms for the most realism. If you are new, just ask for help and you will have some new friends right away. Awesome graphics, clouds and blue sky, rain and shine, day and night time, sun and moon and wind and water. Airports, towns, factories, oceans. Ships, tanks, railroads, bridges. But not all is peaceful and beautiful. There are enemy bombers coming, and if you just sit there beside the runway, you might get hit by one! Avoid the potholes in the runway as the bombs explode around you while you take off. Watch out for the bomber cover plane coming in behind you, circle back into the base antiaircraft fire to let it tear him up! That'll teach him for trying to get you while taking off! Ten minutes into the game, and your adrenaline is already flowing. You can jump right into the action and risk everything right away, or you can switch to a quiet base and build up some altitude and speed before engaging with the enemy. Team up with some friends and see if you can dominate your corner of the map. You can fly formation with them on autopilot. You can use radar, map view, and enemy padlock view to keep an eye on the enemy and prevent anyone from jumping you unawares. This game has the best view controls of any flight simulator. In addition to the expected hat switch views, you can quickly switch views between nearest enemy, next enemy, and friendly planes. With practice, you can hold these views through dogfighting maneuvers without becoming disoriented. Because of this, it has the most intense action of any flight simulator. Pilots quickly learn situational awareness, and a good thing, too, because it can be very dangerous in there. You soon find out that it pays to know the strong points and weak points of your own and your enemy's plane, and try to gain the advantage by using tactics that will favor your strengths. The result, flying against all real people in the game, is an endless series of combinations that never gets boring or repetitive. There is always more to learn, someone you just can't beat, more territory to take, another level to explore. The game is playable on lower end computers as long as the settings are adjusted accordingly. The interaction is designed to take place over phone modem connections. Of course, if you have a higher speed connection, the game play is a little more stable, although a high percentage of players do just fine with dialup connections. And, if you have a higher end system, the game is designed to take advantage of that, too. High resolution graphics are absolutely stunning with late model video cards. The game has gone through several iterations and there were some bugs to be worked out. The game programmers have tirelessly worked to perfect the game, and the major issues have been resolved. The fun factor is back, and this game is ready for prime time! This game would be a great flight simulator even without the online play. The online play makes the game addictive. And the friends you make in the game will keep you coming back for years.
Rating:
Summary: FA 3.5 Rocks
Review: 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!
Rating:
Summary: Excellent flight model, Great community, Great varieries
Review: This game has been around since 1994 when it was hosted by Microsoft Gaming Zone. IMHO this is the best combat flight game bar none. ... Where do I start about this game? OK, let me try: - Massively Multiplayer, this thing is ALIVE with pilots flying all around the globe!
- It has 96 different planes from 5 WWII countries, all meticulously modelled after the real thing. Including Bombers, fighters and transport planes
- Different arenas from quick dog fights to Territorial Combat where contries fight against each other with bombing missions for sea and ground targets
- Areans are tailored for different skill levels, and there are 10 levels with different level of physics and views
- very nice graphics for an online game
- Regular online events The best thing about this game though is the fiecely loyal community, people are ready to help anytime you have a question, they even have volunteers setting up training classes for newbies, and "help rooms" for live chat with people standing by to help. I can go on and on, but seriously I have to go back to have some fun!
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Summary: Addiction! Addiction! Addiction!
Review: This game has to be the most addicting game ever. Its got great graphics, and great online competition. There are over 150 people in the TC room at one time. My favorite is TC (territorial conquest) I don't understand why there are bad reviews on this game unless the person never took the time to learn it. If you are any kind of online pilot you'll love this one. Its got to be one of the best kept secrets of flight sims/games!
Rating: 
Summary: Save your cash
Review: This game was given to me as a gift by a friend. I can honestly say that this game has a long way to go before I would recomend it to anybody. The game came with no instructions and or documentation. There is an online file you can read but I would have to say that it way too vague. Graphics are ok, but not as good as IL-2. The worst problem was with the game play. The servers are horrible including lag and random dropouts and disconnects. There is a help room, but after waiting for half an hour trying to some help I left. I also have to caution parents with young children (as I) about the language used in some of the arenas. Even with system operators monitoring the room, this still continued. Too bad, because it looks like this game could be fun.
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Summary: Fighter Ace 3.5
Review: This is a very well thought of game. The planes fly very realistic and have several levels for the novice -> expert pilot. You can fly bombers, fighters, tank killers. You can bomb bases or fly support for your friends as they fly the bombers. And believe me you will make friends in the game.It is a very tight knit community, supported by a very knowledgeble Fighter Ace Volunteer Group. These people are Instructors and room modoraters. What other online game has people "Ingame" to assist you in learning to play? Give it a try- I promise you will not be sorry!!
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Summary: A real review
Review: Well, looking at the reviews it looks like most is seasoned FA players who are pretty biased. I got this game as a christmas present from a relative who knows i played Aces High in the past. I would never subscribe to this game unless i had got it for free as i was a AH junkie. In the AH community FA is something for kids only as the flight model is arcade only, Microsoft is involved, graphic does not do a sim and AH has the best community among every sim. I am very new to FA and have not really been flying sims for the last six month or so it is with some regeret i have to say that everything i heard about FA in the AH community except for one thing is not true. My oppinion is that FA 3.5 is surperior to AH in most aspects. It is true that FA is what in FA terms would be advanced but the different levels in FA is very good. I like level 7 - 9 best and the fact is that graphics means quite a lot to the total experience. I just love to watch these aircrafts from outside, which sometimes get me killed. The strategy concept, Territorial Combat (TC), is the best i have seen. It is true that in AH i could grab a tank or a ship but the strategic impact is very low. In FA TC you can not survive and win without working in team. The best example of this was a high level room that i think was called "paratroop room" where you could only win scenes by dropping paras on the targets. The flight models in the higher levels is actually better than AH (my oppinion). The areas where i think AH is surperior to FA is the community and how it communicate. AH has a very dedicated community that does not spend most of the posts to complain and hit others. My feeling is that a lot of the posts in the FA NG is about that. Despite that the people that fly FA is very very good and there is no problem getting help from people. When i came in i was immediately attacked by someone and he sent a GF to me. I responded by saying to him that this was my first time in FA. He then offered me to go to another room for practice, very nice. This goes to the staff as well. Another thing that is really bad in FA and very good in AH is the forum. It is really so bad that i dont spend any time there and i know others that put that up as a reason not flying FA. The reason is that I like to be part of the community and read the AH messageboard every day. It is browser based and very easy to access. It is also organized very well with a lot of interesting topics sorted into different forums. This is a major drawback to the FA community as i believe that it makes the game less interested being forced to a tricky and boring non structured news group format. Personally i can not believe that Jaleco doesnt have a similar forum that most other games have. My review of Figher Ace is that it is a really dangerous game as it has the ability to hook people and destroy relationships. I find my self playing more than i should as it is really good and interesting. The reason why i can not give it a 5 and may loose interest is the forum, which for me is a very important piece of the game play, it [stinks]. Cheers Alex
Rating:
Summary: Ready to be addicted?
Review: What are you waiting for? Been playing Fighter Ace 4 years now, and im still addicted as much as i was the first day i flew those years back... All i can say is: Lock the wifey up, chain the doors, stock up on beer, and quite the day job cause i can guarantee that you are gonna be owned by this game... Best 10 bucks i ever wasted per month, lol... Rock on FA! BBC Red Raider
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Summary: Ready to be addicted?
Review: What are you waiting for? Been playing Fighter Ace 4 years now, and im still addicted as much as i was the first day i flew those years back... All i can say is: Lock the wifey up, chain the doors, stock up on beer, and quite the day job cause i can guarantee that you are gonna be owned by this game... Best 10 bucks i ever wasted per month, lol... Rock on FA! BBC Red Raider
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