ACE Online

The Basics: ACE Online is an action based MMORPG 3D enviroment shooter. In ACE, players can pilot their own fighters (Known as Gears), in a futuristic setting. Gamers have full control over their gear as where many other piloted MMOs used a point and click system. Most of the combat system is based on a near 3rd person shooting style with moments of 1st person shooting. There also appears to be an option of full 1st person shooting but its still in development. There are 2 warring factions to choose from and sets the basis of PvP combat.

Your Class Options: All Pilots have 4 choices of Gears to choose from. All playing out different combat roles in a dynamic combat system.

• B-Gear - This gear is fitting to allow most types of upgrades from weapons to missiles and armor. The B-Gear is your general purpose fighter/attacker. Allowing it to preform all offensive and defensive roles including ground assault.
• I-Gear - This gear is fitted with the latest weaponry and engine types to date. It's you straight up air-to-air dogfighter. Since this unit specialized in highspeed maneuvers, it tends to lack in the ability to take a hit, they rather out maneuver incoming missiles as their primary defense. They also lack in ground combat ability as they pick up no special bonuses compared to the B-Gear.
• A-Gear - The Armor-Gear is the flying tank of the skies. This flying box truck can tank out damage and return it 2-fold. While being the slowest Gear, it picks up a very special ability to land and engage siege mode. Siege mode locks you into the ground and opens up your main cannon to FPS mode, mowing down targets that fly into your view.
• M-Gear - This gear is your support craft. They are outfitted to take a good amount of damage and survive to keep your formation alive by resupplying and repairing ships in combat. They have the weakest attack but only slightly less then that of the B-Gear at mid to later levels.

My Review: The game is still in open Beta for anyone to join and there are a few bugs to work out that can cause lockups and crashes. Looking past the short-term issues the game works on a mission system to gain money and levels. The missions early on tend to be a bit redundant and gain some difficulty and dynamic. While I'm still playing the lower levels, there is a urge to see what else the game has in store. I will say, there is a huge potential for tactical PvP combat.

Best of all, It's free to play!
ACE Online

**Special thanks to LordMeatwad for finding this game!**