Review of Apache: Air Assault - Xbox 360

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After playing the demo, I was sold. This is the best (and maybe only) helicopter sim on the 360.

The game play is very tactical and I truly like the single screen coop. I think it truly brings two people together and makes it a life or death situation whereas, you must be able to rely on your gunner to get his job done and vice versa. If someone screws up, you will both be brought down, which I believe truly simulates the feeling of flying a copter in the military.

The graphics are pretty good, except I saw one of these copter guns in reallife where it literally turned a guy into a red smear on the ground, and the gun in reallife sounded more menacing then the one in the game. I have to say though that it would have been great to turn a insurgent into a red smear, but, whatever.

The copter sound are very quiet, which is good and the ambience is also very significant.

I would def recommend this game, but some may not like it because of it not being arcadey.

The game has a good mission structure like: escorts, protect forces, and so on. Also, offers single player free flight mode.

Hope to see some DLC for this game

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When I first heard about this game I thought it would suck. Not because I'm another COD Fanboy or anything like that but because it didn't seem like it would be worth the money. I was pleasantly surprised with the demo clocking around 4+ hours on both missions.

Graphics wise I'd give a 4/5. They look really good in hi def but some things never change

Sound is a 3/5 Average but the 30mm cannon sounded really good, as did the radio comm chatter.

Controls are the same as bad company plus a few extra hi-tech gizmos put in like Satllites, FLIR, Laser guided hellfires and sniping with TADS.

Gameplay is a 5/5, the campaign was good enough and the prerendered cutscenes were so cheesy it brought be back to when games like these were considered hi def in the cinematics department. Funny stuff but the game is pretty sick. The Online COOP is amazing and playing with 4 people means you could convince a few of your buddies to buy this and then you don't need to worry about people to play it with. The community is really close knit online and everybody is likeminded and friendly. You'd think with an Apache gunship you wouldn't need to be careful or tactical. I've never played anything as tactical as this in a long while. BFBC2 was good but most people were too damn stupid to do anything useful for your team and Halo is all about Quadruple teaming the enemy.

This game is the best 50$ I've spent since Halo Combat Evolved. Very nostalgic feel and plenty of stuff to kill and blow up.

Move over CODBO here's a real game to play!

UPDATE: I know this is a year late but I wanted to give a better review on this with hindsight 20/20. It gets old. I complete every mission on veteran and coop mission on veteran. After a while you learn everything about this game and depending on who you are can easily master this game and get bored of it easily. Good game if you just like blowing stuff up but it gets old.

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This game is great. Graphics are great and it gives you the feeling that you are really in a helicopter. The sounds are so realistic. You can switch from the cockpit to gunner to third person. I only wish that the game made the UH-60 Blackhawk availavle to fly, but maybe later they will. I would definately recommend this game.

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So, a long time ago, back in the days of COM ports and measuring our clock speeds in "megahertz", there was a game called "Longbow 2" by Janes Combat Simulators. Longbow 2 was epic a simply phenomenal game for it's time: a combat simulator that was actually tested and backed by actual pilots of the AH64D Longbow helicopter.

Now, I logged THOUSANDS of hours in Longbow 2. I flew that game so much, I'm still to this day somewhat confident that I'd have a head-start in learning how to fly a real helicopter. And even today I still retain a generous amount of knowledge that the Janes title taught me about helicopter flight in general, and the specific systems and features of the Longbow.

And by the way, despite the title, the helicopters portrayed within are Longbows upgraded Apache helicopters.

Of course, these days, that kind of processing power is laughed at by our cell phones, so I really wasn't surprised by the quality of the inherent technology represented by Apache: Air Assault.

Apache: Air Assault is a HARD game to fly, which is precisely how it should be. I do believe that they were aiming for a simulation here, and I ALMOST feel that they achieved it. Yes there are some exceptions made, such as the "auto-hover" feature, and the missiles that reload while you're airborne... But those are things they had to do or at least felt they had to do to create an entertaining video game. But then they took it too far they scripted the daylights out of this thing.

After just the first mission, I started to notice it enemies popping up the moment checkpoints are reached, being suddenly forced to fly evasively and fire at targets inconveniently placed beneath me. By the third mission, it had already become frustrating.

The problem is, the AH64D Longbow helicopter is far more capable than this game allows it to be. The dome-shaped radar unit above the rotors called the Fire Control Radar (FCR), which is what made Apaches into Longbows allows for unrivaled target acquisition and tracking within the Longbow's 150km combat radius. So when hostiles kept popping up out of nowhere and damaging my helo before I had time to respond, I quickly grew frustrated.

I understand it's a game, and I respect that they tried to make a simulator out of it. But they didn't quite go all the way, and in they end they made a title that was far too challenging for the uninitiated, and not realistic enough for us simulator geeks.

If you're willing to run a mission over and over again until you've memorized where the baddies will be coming from, you'll find a very engaging and challenging game here. If you're looking for a genuine helicopter sim, fix up a bottom-of-the-line PC and auction-up yourself a copy of Longbow 2.

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Good from a sim perspective; not perfect. Fun game. Campaign gets difficult quick. Haven't tried online multiplayer yet... same-console multiplayer is not split screen; the second player must aim/fire weapons from the first player's view.

There aren't very many modern helicopter games; this game fills the gap well-enough. Not quite worth the standard new-game price, but worth the 6-months-later price.