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Ace Combat Assault Horizon Xbox 360 Video

The Xbox 360 will get a new entry in the popular Ace Combat series in 2011, and Namco Bandai have sent along a video to show off their handiwork. Never before has aerial combat been so fast, so in-your-face and so vicious, according to the developer.

The demanding Project Aces development team at Namco Bandai apparently weren't satisfied with the series. They wanted more. They wanted planes that tore apart limb from limb right in front of your face, spewing their oily lifeblood across the sky. They wanted to scrape the streets and dodge the steel skyscrapers of real world cities at blistering speeds, in an enthralling war drama that spanned the globe with a web of intrigue. They wanted players to pick up the controller and become deadly combat pilots in seconds, pulling off breathtaking kills at impossible speeds, and doing battle online in a multiplayer sky littered with fiery supersonic debris. What they wanted was steel carnage in the sky.

The result is not a sequel in the multi-million selling Ace Combat series, but a complete rebirth, a phoenix from the ashes flying at three times the speed of sound. Assault Horizon has been built from the ground up, with new technology fuelling their passionately realised vision of a game that puts players in the heart of the fight like no aerial combat game has done before.

Check out the video below to catch a sneak peak at their latest vision: