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Ace Combat 6 Flightstick Bundle Returning to Retailers
When Your Regular Controller Just Doesn't Cut it
by Sarah
When Ace Combat 6 was released for the Xbox 360 nearly a year
ago, it launched with two versions: just the plain old game by itself for $60, and a bundle with a super-fancy flightstick for $150. However, the flightstick bundle was limited, and became hard to get at most retailers, so Ace Combat junkies without a reserve missed out on the bundle the first time around. Well, good news! For those of you who actually still care about this game, Namco Bandai has announced that the limited edition bundle pack will be making a return to retailers. Well, not all retailers, but Best Buy stores exclusively; fear not, GameStop employees, you don’t have to worry about those oversized boxes taking up space in your tiny back rooms again.
The bundle pack will once again retail for $149.99, so I guess the game being a year old doesn’t warrant any kind of discount. The pack also comes with a nifty faceplate and the Speed & Angels aerial documentary. Considering the rarity of the flight stick and the prices they’re going for on eBay, I guess there is a market for this sort of thing, but I feel like this would be much more excited if Namco had cut the price a bit. Read all about it in the press release below.
Santa Clara, Calif., (October 21, 2008) – Leading video games developer and publisher NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc., announced today that the Ace Combat® 6 Flightstick Bundle is once again available, exclusively at Best Buy retail stores nationwide. Including the critically acclaimed Ace Combat® 6: Fires of Liberation for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, HORI’s exclusive ACE-EDGE™ flightstick and a custom Xbox 360 faceplate, the newly released bundle also includes an exclusive DVD of the award-winning flight combat documentary Speed & Angels.
Speed & Angels follows two young aspiring fighter pilots as they follow their dreams of taking to the skies in F-14 Tomcat aircraft. Providing a behind the scenes look at the extraordinary people that pilot the world’s most advanced fighter planes, the film was the recipient of the Audience Award at the 2008 Newport Film Festival and an official selection at the 2008 Sedona International Film Festival.
Thrusting players into massive living battlefields, Ace Combat 6 lets players pilot cutting-edge real world aircraft such as the F-22 Raptor and A-10 Thunderbolt as they take on screaming enemy fighter jets, ground-based anti-air emplacements and hulking naval vessels. Up to 16 players can test their dogfighting skills online in a variety of multiplayer modes, including objective-based air raids and exclusive cooperative missions. Unanimously praised by critics and fans alike, Ace Combat 6 was chosen as one of Time Magazine’s top 10 games of 2007 and lauded as “bigger, better and even more photorealistic than its predecessors” by USA Today.
The Ace Combat 6 Flightstick Bundle with the Speed & Angels DVD is available exclusively at Best Buy locations nationwide and carries a suggested retail price of $149.99. Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation is available at retailers nationwide for a suggested retail price of $59.99 and is rated “T” for Teen by the ESRB. For more information, please visit www.acecombatsix.com and www.speedandangels.com.
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very cool looking joystick, though 150 dollars would hurt my wallet.. :(
Last year I said I'd never pay for this thing. Today, I totally wish I had it.
I may be one of the suckers dropping a buck fifty on it.