A series peak on 360, with vast skies, chatty wingmen and an engine that makes every roll sparkle. The campaign serves up huge set pieces and Kobayashi's score brings actual tears mid-dogfight.
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Category
Action1 player12+
Description
Japanese version of the aerial combat game by Project Aces and Namco Bandai, Japan November 2007. Emmeria Air Force pilots battle Estovakia in epic aerial combat missions. Classic Ace Combat with multiple aircraft, varied missions and intense conflict storyline. Japanese version known in the West as Fires of Liberation.
Ace Combat 6 - Kaihou e no Senka review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
MAX
Music
★★★★★
"Legendary"
3/5
Story
★★★★★
"Solid"
Project Aces finally populates the sky: hundreds of friendly and enemy aircraft share one space, crossing contrails, flak smoke, columns of fire rising from the ground, and the battle can be seen from one end of the horizon to the other. The planes themselves are modeled down to the rivet, canopies reflecting clouds, control surfaces visibly moving with every input.
Signed by Keiki Kobayashi, the music elevates the aerial battles with a cinematic orchestra of rare dramatic breadth. The grandiose, epic-choir "The Liberation of Gracemeria" culminates in an overwhelming intensity. This symphonic richness, a peak of the series, turns every mission into a grand military spectacle.
Gameplay
"Excellent"
Fun
"From the very first seconds"
At the controls of overpowered fighters, you dive into aerial battles of spectacular scale, where hundreds of aircraft wage total war in the sky. The feel of flying, locking onto targets and swooping on the enemy delivers a big thrill. Snappy, immersive and grandiose, an aerial combat game that bets everything on spectacle and dogfight adrenaline.
Addictiveness
"Captivating"
Difficulty
"Balanced"
Lifespan
"Average"
Technical info
💾6,7 GB📅01/11/2007
Published by Namco Bandai
Ace Combat 6 - Kaihou e no Senka (Xbox 360) price, value & rarity
Ace Combat 6 Kaihou e no Senka, the Japanese and Asian version of Bandai Namco's aerial-combat sim, the local pressing under its original title. Harder to gather than the Western editions, it appeals to those collecting the series at its source, in its Japanese packaging. Its desirability rests on this rarer regional provenance and a measured local run rather than mere availability, in a niche of flight fans.
Is Ace Combat 6 - Kaihou e no Senka still worth playing in 2026?
Released in 2007 on Xbox 360, Project Aces' entry remains one of the finest aerial combat showcases on Microsoft's console. The engine fills the screen with vast skies packed with aircraft, and the rush of every roll still bites today. The campaign strings together missions of huge scale, carried by Keiki Kobayashi's orchestra that turns a plain dogfight into something stirring. The story stays predictable and the 360 exclusivity makes it hard to track down, yet fans of arcade aviation and the merely curious still find a genuine flying spectacle worth a few evenings here.
