
Aces High III offers world class modeling of World War II planes, vehicles, and boats in a combat setting with hundreds of other players pitting their skills in any given online arena.
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I started playing this game in 2010 when it was Aces High 2. I had friends I flew with. I've been in several legendary squads over the years such as the Blue Lagoon Bandits (BLB), Screaming Eagles, the 49th Fighter Group and JG 11. I met great people, learned to fly and fight and I was the very first pilot with the Goose callsign with 3 O's (Gooose). I used to average about 260 fighter kills a month but that was around 2013. I played every single day and paid for it every month. Loved it back then. Great population, the flight simulation was extremely realistic even despite the oldish looking graphics. When AH 3 came, I was pretty excited to see what's changed, what's new, who would stay, who would go, etc. I was extremely disappointed with where the game had gone. The old days of talented skilled turn fighters and furballs were gone. Now it was everyone getting their kills on vulching and ganging, no skill, then they would troll you afterwards if you killed them, it just turned into a crap sandwich without the bread. I think the devs should have seen this coming honestly. There were plenty of signs when the great veteran pilots of AH's golden age were all leaving. They should have done something then. It's too late now and us old timers feel like we've lost something that was once precious to us. We even flew a huge memorial flight for ET37 when he passed away. That's how tight we all were as a community and all of that is gone now. Hitech Creations only cares about their money. Until that changes to bring people back to the game, I can't ever recommend AH 3 as a decent game.
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$15 sub needs to go. if they did that the game would be back.
Many many years ago I used to pay for this on a monthly basis and absolutely loved it, Idk how they think they can sustain the same system in this day in age. Poor graphics, poor gameplay and no playerbase because of the monthly pay system that is just out right ridiculous. Make the game a one time purchase or let your community die because you have no respect for them.
not worth the subscription. i had alot of fun as a poor kid doing solo bombing runs in offline. if it was a one time payment and they actually worked on the game it would be worth it but the subscription is a joke when war thunder is FREE
Killed even more an already dead game by adding a retarded subscription system, ignore the positive reviews, they are most likely from before the game changed to be this way
The old IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 is much better than this. Don't waste your time.
Used to be fun flying around with friends, sad that the subscription model still exists in the big 2025 though. If it didn't exist would be a much better game overall, hopefully the developers can see this as well. I would not recommend in its current state however.
AH2 was fun but this game is dead and they still want to charge you 15 a month to play, this isnt the early/mid 2000s anymore, AH and ww2ol need to drop their subscription based game and either make it free or charge once for it.
game randomly ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ freezes before i can even join now soon as i click the join button for the lobby game freezes out every single time nothing i can ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ do to fix it.. checks out when you have a support team that does nothing literally ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for this game..then yall expect a subscription LOL yea yall are smoked the ♥♥♥♥ out . idiots
It's a fun little time waster, but idk if I just suck or the games hard, but shooting stuff down with my Thrustmaster T16000m and throttle is really hard. Also, I am not paying a SUBSCRIPTION to play a game that looks like a switch game. Make it a one and done payment game. 6/10. 8/10 if it looked a bit better and was 15 dollars, one time payment.
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