"Gentlemen, I do not believe a lady on Earth would be able to resist us now."

Replayed it for the first time in many years.
The story is embarrassing and cringe, the battles are massive and the objective-based mission structure actually allows you to plan your loadout. Very straightforward and arcadey but also with a more realistic touch thanks to the gloomy environment and planes that have more weight than those in 7.
Both gun and air to ground weapons are grossly OP giving it a very fun core gameplay despite the forgettable missions.
Replaying a 2007 game and seeing it have essentially the same ideas as 7 (2019) minus a few improvements on the newer release (and to be fair, 6 is already very similar to the previous releases) gives some hindsight on how creatively bankrupt the franchise as a whole is, but despite that I'll probably be first in line for the next game.

Reviewed on Mar 03, 2022


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the main saving grace of the series is how short the games are. considering the gameplay has barely changed since 04. still I wonder if 8 will break this curse or keep continuing it.
I actually didn't remember the game being as short as it is. Just under 5 hours