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« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2002, 08:06:57 PM »
Better than that, I've played the game

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« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2002, 08:18:58 PM »
you've got to admit its a great advert and im tempted to see what its like purely because it looks like more than one plane flies together!!! :) is cooperation any better in FA3?

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« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2002, 09:11:38 PM »
Looks like IL2.
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« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2002, 09:24:25 PM »
you almost have to have a neuclear system for it to look that good.

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« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2002, 09:25:15 PM »
What's "Cooperation" ?? :)

 Anyway, can't help but say 'wow' the amount of effort put into editing that advertisement. The  scenes are admittably the best of its kind. Of course, what is inside the game is a completely different story :rolleyes: .

 However, the graphics are really entertaining. The flashes of hits on enemy planes are very good, considering our AH hit sprites are also very old. The way parts are blown off is also good(I actually note the two~three gradual levels of damage on wingtips alone :) )

 I think the difference comes with the light factor and glare effects. AH supports only one source of light in the physical environment, and that is the sun. All the other light sources are non existent and represented only by bitmap level colors.

 Anyway, FA3 is a neat eye candy. :)

 ps) couldn't help but laugh when the narrarator was saying 'realistic flight environment'. The scene was a cockpit view looking downwards into the rudder, which is clearly padlock tracking an enemy under the plane.

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« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2002, 09:29:40 PM »
cc that hazed... very nice advert.  reminds me of what bushman did for WWII Online.   The speaker's voice sounded like a droid of some sort.  ... AND was that a P51 rolling from a CV in that last scene?!
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« Reply #7 on: March 07, 2002, 10:06:16 PM »
Hmmm...for a second there I thought I wandered into the O Club.

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« Reply #8 on: March 07, 2002, 10:15:25 PM »
Isn't PadLock Purdy!

And just when it thought I had it out of my system.  Ohh guilty pleasures!
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« Reply #9 on: March 07, 2002, 10:26:49 PM »
HTC needs to use something like this to promote AH me thinks +)


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« Reply #10 on: March 07, 2002, 11:36:34 PM »
cc...nice advert.  I like the way crap flies off of aircraft when you're hitting them, even if it looks like crap there, and I liked the water effects - the water "spray" or responding to the prop flow of the P51 (heh) taking off from the carrier and the ripple effect that the bomb had in the water.

Don't know what's real or what's not, but those are things I liked seeing.


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« Reply #11 on: March 07, 2002, 11:53:25 PM »
too bad fighter ace is so arcade because aces high is just about te ugliest sim that people pay for now :(

those carroiers and the bomb water effects when you bomb the cvs are cool. aces high graphics are just too 1998 ish for 2002.

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« Reply #12 on: March 08, 2002, 12:00:40 AM »
I played WB in 2D because it worked better there.

I play AH with 1998 graphics because the playability is the best in the market. That just about covers it.

I would never trade good modeling to eye candy.

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« Reply #13 on: March 08, 2002, 12:25:14 AM »
neither would i. thats why i have an aces high account and not a fighter ace account :) but there is no reason you cannot have both.

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« Reply #14 on: March 08, 2002, 01:03:51 AM »
I played some FA3 over the weekend, and the ONLY things that look good are the effects and aircraft, and then only when you are near to them.  At distance, everything degenerates VERY quickly, and the terrain looks plain awful in comparison to AH.  As for it even being in the same time zone as Il-2... it is not even close in ANY respect.

There's pretty, and there there is usable...

Add in the X-Wing flight model and laser beam guns, and you've got a nice window dressing.