Air Rivals (ACE Online) is an action based Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) 3D Space Shooter. In Space Cowboy Online, players can pilot their own space fighter ships (Gears) on an imaginary planet and upgrade skills or the Gear itself.

Status: Final
Official Site: http://ace.subagames.com/ (North America) or http://www.airrivals.net/ (Europe)

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Air Rivals / Ace Online Overview and Features:

In Ace Online, players pilot their own individual starfighters (called "Gears") throughout a number of maps, including terrestrial, lunar, and space maps. It has typical MMORPG elements such as leveling, currency, and a skills system. Ace Online is a largely Player vs. Player (PvP)-oriented game, with character leveling and item acquisition achieved through combat against Non-Player Characters (NPCs) and the completion of missions. After completion of certain missions, more maps will be accessible to the player. Although a high level character will have better character attributes than most other players, no one at any level is invincible against other players in PvP. As in other MMORPGs, players can trade items, customize their gears, form parties ("formations") and guilds ("brigades"), and fight with other players via PvP combat. Almost all of the combat in Ace Online is aerial, from the third-person view. Players have the option to use the in-cockpit, first-person view by pressing on the "Delete" key once. This View is rarely used as it restricts vision of the pilot, by cutting down on his/hers peripheral vision as well as increasing difficulty in manuevering the gear.

When players create their account, they can choose from one of four different gears, each with very different play styles.

A gear's performance can be improved with purchases from the "Skill Shop". Skills range from healing skills, weapon enhancing skills and gear performance skills. The magnitude and the duration that the skill effects the gear depends on the level of the gear performing the skill.

New armor is also available at the "Gear Shop", but the armor can only be used if the requirements for that armor are met. The gear cannot take off if no armor is equipped. Armour can be enhanced using various recipes of materials gathered from monster drops which increases the "energy points" and "shield points". Certain enhancements have an additional boost to the "defense" or "evasion" percentage score of your gear.

Gears may use "Standard" or "Advance" weapons. The former are basic guns that use the crosshair for targeting, the latter are missiles which can lock-on to gears. Missiles are guided projectiles that require a lock-on to the target, but a Gear may avoid them by barrel-rolling. A specific type of gear can utilize a skill to cause his missiles to do splash damage, among other bonuses

Other equipment includes radars, adhesives (non-critical items that boost the Gear in some way) and CPUs (accessories that improve a Gear's statistics)
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Air Rivals / Ace Online Review

Many people remember watching Top Gun or Return of the Jedi, and thinking how awesome it would be to be strapped to the cockpit, dog-fighting it out with a handful of your trusted comrades, for the sake of your home nation. Such is the reason games like Ace Combat do well.
But while Ace Combat is a nice game, it never gives you the feeling of large scale war. However, AirRivals does.
irst off, let it be known, that AirRivals (formally known as Space Cowboys Online) is primarily a PvP MMORPG. - 8.5/10 Full Review»

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