Energy Airforce Aim Strike! Intro, Scenario 1 | 1-A CAP

This is not well known game for PS2 - Energy Airforce: aimStrike! Developed by Taito Corporation, who published the game in 2003 in Japan and later in Europe by 505 Game Street. AFAIK there was no US release.
It's second game in the series, which ended on XBOX360 with Over G Fighters. I consider this one as a most solid in the series as it focused on realistic missions in a single large theater of operations.
The "campaign" took place over big map (around 500x400 km). There were no respawns of munitions known from Ace Combat games. The cockpit was realistically rendered and considering limited control options (game pad), the controls were really well thought out. Avionics were also pretty realistic - for instance you could use CCIP or CCRP mode for unguided bombs delivery (which will be shown in my future videos).
There is also Trainng which you can use to practise landings and using your guns, missiles and bombs.
On top of that there is a simple mission builder - Strike mode, where you can select mission parameters - select a map (here you can find several smaller maps found in first Energy Airforce) choose enemy units and start hunting.
I wish Over G Fighters was extension of EA:AS! But they went backward and did first Energy Airforce with more planes and Arena mode. Think of flying all those planes from OVG in realistic missions like in aimStrike!
But lets get back to the meat - in our first mission we are taking F-16C Falcon for a CAP.
Looking back at this game only shows how much detail was crammed into it. For instance notice that when you sit in your Viper on the apron with your throttle at idle static friction prevents your loaded aircraft from moving. Nudge that throttle forward a bit to overcome the static friction and when the jet begins to move you can put that throttle back to idle and the taxi speed will gradually increase. We saw that modelled in Falcon 4.0 when the BMS 4.32 was released in 2012. This was already here and IIRC even in first Energy Airforce from 2001!

[@Scorpian472]

I've just stumbled across this video and it makes me realise how ahead of its time this game was. The amount of detail in the soundtracks, gameplay and general make up of the game. Pretty incredible!

[@KvltKommando]

Wow, this game came out ages ago, and it looks better than a lot of flight sims being released in the past 5 years.

[@milesbacon5007]

Let's just all agree that the into to this game is epic

[@samanders2676]

I wish Taito corp make more of EA. I’m a big Ace Combat fan but I put EA series ahead of AC. The realism and the atmosphere is mind blowing. For starters, F 22 in EA is actually stealthy, not to mention the super cruise ability.

[@whiteangel2083]

so this was the game before Over G fighters, looks pretty cool

[@damsonn]

Personally I prefer this much more realistic approach with the missions than the arcade one from OGF.

[@Aonobaka29]

Played this as a kid, glad to see it again

[@Stubobrules]

The memories...

[@KvltKommando]

man this game is so cool, imagine if you could get TrackIR working on this sucker.

[@christopherfischer6998]

11:28 shit just got real

[@royvallendra166]

Remember this 20 year so much jet prototipe match 6 from this kkkkkk 👍👍

[@Bassemann87]

Great video mate!

[@damsonn]

Thanks!

[@YouQube05117]

who is playing this game in 2019 except me

[@ironpatriot2675]

I'm thinking of buying it now.

[@Panchoproductions2069]

@@matthewdavidjarvis6039 ace combat is arcade my friend, doesn't mean it's better or worse, it's like saying that music it's better than sports, two different things!

[@kylebrady969]

I think we did get this game in the US; I'm noticing that fonts, menus, and especially the Gargoyle callsign remind me of a game called Over-G Fighters. Maybe the two are related? This looks STRIKINGLY like Over-G graphically as well

[@damsonn]

Yes, Over G Fighters was third game in this series and released for XBox360. As stated in video description ;)

[@kylebrady969]

@@damsonn Ah, apologies. Should've read that

[@mileschristus8861]

Wonder why they never put the Tomcat in, that would have been a hell of a fighter to fly.

[@damsonn]

They did, but few years later and on different console generation - it's in Over G Fighters along with other cool jets, like F-117, Gripen, Flanker, Fulcrum and few others.

[@mileschristus8861]

@@damsonn I see, thanks for the reply

[@gaggione2]

Recently bought and finished on a PS2 borrowed from a friend. When I was a kid I used to play with the first episode but this is waaay better in many aspects: mission layouts, big map, carefully modeled wingmans and friendly squadrons.The only big drawback is the monotony of the scenery! Ok to have just one big map but why not creating a bit of variations, instead of just plain desert and some low detail cities :( Some mountains or "greener" areas like plains could have fit perfectly! Maybe even a more advanced city.. Any modders out there capable of retrieving the game code and create new sceneries and missions (maybe some new features too) for the emulator? It would make the game endless :) @dammson any recomms to play this on emulator? I'd love to try it with the flight stick! Thanks for the vids.

[@damsonn]

I'm playing it on PCSX2 emulator. I didn't tried flying it with a stick - used Xbox One controller, perhaps it would help the twitchy controls though the Over G Fighters (the sequel for XBox 360) has way better controls even though you still using those short mini-sticks.

[@gaggione2]

@@damsonn Thanks for your reply. I will look into PCSX2 eventually :)

[@abdelmoutalebadder8149]

The best part starts here 2:25

[@luigipio557]

I don't know why but this game instead of ea1 is more arcade, the planes fehlt literally too smoth, i cannot fly good enough because they over reacted at stick movements, and it so arcade that they removed the license and i had many trouble with a 10 to land and they removed the free flight mode that i used to relax and to train different movements and take off/landing. What you think after playng all?

[@damsonn]

Maybe it lacks License mode but it does have Training mode in which you can practice your landings. Also in Strike mode you can set up fast skirmishes as well as free flight on the maps from first Energy Airforce game. I do agree that the flight model feel more twitchy, but it may be due to different sensitivity curve of the control stick. With emulator and actual joystick you could try to overcome that issue by adjusting joystick axis sensitivity curves.

[@luigipio557]

I'm on og ps2 unfortunately i cannot do that, and my problem with a10 was the complete lack of ils or any good avionic sistem on cockpit and with arcade control system i feel not the heavyness of this plane, I don't know the strike mode piss me off with so many maps that are empty with low details compared to ea1 and i hate i must start flying. Thank you for your answer

[@einsamerjager]

this is a PS2 game??? why didn't I find this!

[@liger9255]

Download?

[@fredo0084]

was there an ntsc version¡?

[@damsonn]

Since it was released in Japan I presume there was.

[@samanders2676]

It lets you choose between NTSC and PAL when you start the game.

[@KvltKommando]

just fyi, you should choose NTSC mode, you get better framerate that way

[@damsonn]

Does it matter with emulators? Will check that out, thanks!