Aces of the Galaxy™

Activision <3

Boring.

best of the best space shoot em up to date in all generations

This game is too old and lacks basic player-friendly features (like checkpoints and rapid fire) to be worthwhile.

A fun, quick and decent Star Fox type on the rails shooter. Arcade style, fast action game play. Cool space visuals with a nice cartoon style. My biggest complaint is the no save system. Once you use up your lives, it's game over. So, it looks like I wont be completing this one. In fact I'm pretty disappointed. The good news is, I got it on sale for a buck. Also, there are no steam achievements.

My mouse will never be the same :(
Game froze before the last level so my progress went down the drain...fuck this, I take it that I finished the game instead of doing the whole damn thing again since I was doing quite well. It's a visual diarrhea of ships, explosions, lasers and asteroids everywhere but if this kind of rail shooters is for you, then go for it. But it's a very short experience and very pain inducing to yourself and your mouse. You could shoot with some keys on keyboard but the button choices are awful and you can't change them.

Aces of the Galaxy- Simple, fun, difficult at higher levels but achievable. Using a Controller to play Aces takes some practice as the mouse aims much faster. My only issue with Aces, is that the keys used by default are Ctrl and Alt for dodging. It is too easy to hit the Windows button throwing you out of the game and breaking the flow. Shift for Rockets and Space Bar to slow down the action temporarily may be second nature to a seasoned keyboard user, but it takes some effort if you are more accustomed to a controller.

I've had this game in my library for almost 11 years, and it is gem of a game if you like on-rails space sim where the object is to just blast away at enemies in droves.. Serious Sam in space as I like to think about it.. frantic, fun, keeps you coming back for more.

Graphics:
Great, even despite it's age. Lot's of details here and there make the visuals stand out. They are colorful with wonderful bloom type of effects. Very pleasing to the eyes.

Sound:
Music is servicable to good. Sound effects are very pleasing to the ears and fit the visuals meticulously and methodically.

Gameplay:
Frantic, fun - has that I want to try another level or one more time feeling. So it's all gooood! :-)

Con:
No way to save your progress.. you have to start over each time.. grrr!

Overall:
Highly recommended. Too bad there is no co-op or pvp, it would have been awesome fighting from one end of the universe to meet each other in the middle.. ahh well..

See this stream for gameplay footage:

https://rumble.com/vkxovn-aces-of-the-galaxy-playthrough-levels-1-9-pt.-1.html

Aces of the Galaxy won't win any awards for artistic depth, but it's a solid game and staunch (frustratingly staunch) disciple of classic on-rails shooters.

The game is glitch at the first level. It automaticly aims top right or bottom right and will aim in any other direction. I've tried both mouse and controller and it doesn't work. It has yet to be patch and will properly not. Don't waste your money.

Pros: good rail shooter. This is actually better than 90% of the crap rail shooters out there on steam. Good flow of enemies, engaging scenarios, rewarding arcade-like experience overall. Also great soundtrack.

Cons: For god's sake, LETS US AUTO-FIRE. The creators of this have no regard for the well being of your poor thumb. Not only that, almost no workaround works.
Tried DS4windows - macros don't work in-game.
Steam global controller - game crash on start.
Eventually found a solution. But jesus...

A rather dated arcade-on-rails clay-pigeon shooter. If you are not a fan of these kinds of games, I would give this a miss.

The graphics options only go up to 1280x1024 oe 1280x720 (yeah, very dated game), and the visuals are rather underwhelming in this day and age. This doesn't mean the game is not a complete cluster*HONK* to play. Quite the opposite actually, most of the time you have no idea what is going on.

The controls are simple as the ship follows the mouse cursor (supposedly), but that makes it impossible to shoot at the clay pigeon-like static enemy formations when there are obstacles present.

You have some generic weapons such as a chain-gun (which is semi-automatic for some inexplicable reason), cluster missiles (which take ages to reload between uses and only can lock into a small number of enemies) and torpedoes (which seem to be pretty weak and need you to reach for the keyboard.

This game was released in 2008. I guess Sierra tried to emulate the success of Starfox, without realizing the reason the games only had such a cult status on Nintendo was that there were almost zero alternatives.

Also, this game is boring as hell.

If you like rail-shooters then by all means, buy the game but only if this is on sale and heavily discounted. For the asking price (€9.99) this is a rip-off.

decent Star Fox style game thats more about being a bullet hell than dodging environmental hazards. levels often times feel like little more than pallet swaps the actual enemies and layouts are resonably diverse. Multiple paths ad a bit of replay value.

Wish there were levels that took place in locations other than just space. Show me a planet!

That being said its fun. It plays well. Get it on sale but definitley get it.

It could be a good game, but absolutely no other support than "some" keyboard and mouse, AND no remapping possible...
Simply put : NO.

A rather ho-hum on-rails shooter. The game might have been more fun had they skipped the on-rails part. It just felt bland as it was, maybe having actual control of your ship path would've made things more interesting. Levels are visually decent, but it's just so much to see that you can't interact with...I dunno about others...but seeing massive ships in battle in the background just made me wish I could fly up, in, around, attacking them...instead of them literally just being there for eye-candy. Of note is that it does feature controller support (played through with the XBox One controller) though you'll have to guess at controls since the controller button prompts aren't there.

All in all...I didn't hate it...I just didn't much care for it either. If you're a huge fan of on-rails shooters, you may like it. Everyone else should probably pass on it.

PROS

• Controller Support
  
• Works fine on Windows 10
  
• Colorful for a space game
  

• Poor Controller Support (No controller prompts)
  
• Bland
  
• Short
  
• No apparent way to force HD resolutions (runs pillarboxed)
  
[*]No saving (local leaderboards DO save though)

kinda crappy but fun when bored. it's really small in terms of download size too. i think this game should have a save function.

Pros,
The game was a good price $5, so I shouldn't of except much.
The play was smooth.

Cons.
The game was boring. Very little skill was needed. Music was annoying. You can not save where you left off.
Even for $5 I wouldn't I don't recommend wasting your money on it.

It feels like playing a third-person version of Space Invaders, when you can see it.

There's a reason Aces of the Galaxy sits at "Mixed" in it's reviews: it's not for everyone. Certainly it's not the type for me. While there is something to be said for "On Rail Shooters," I cannot say that Aces makes the best of this particular style. In particular, Aces makes use of many many brilliant colors and explosions which happen in such frequency that seeing what is happening is a challenge.

Overall, I can't say that I was enjoying Aces. Had it been a third-person version of Space Invaders, I might have had more fun with the idea, but the novelty of such an idea is hampered by the rail.

I suppose it is an okay game but..

Fun?
Yes it actually is and not too difficult either and kind of refreshing.

No saves?
I do not have a lot of time to play and there´s where the lack of a save option stops me from playing further.

Gaming gear used:
There was also a problem with my logitech rumblepad, I had to disconnect it to get the game working properly. I had it plugged in for another game but obviously this game does not like that. I used my mouse and keyboard for this game.

Recommend:
No. If it only had an autosave/save function then I´d would have voted positive surely.

A great little game that'll be of great joy to anyone who played old-school rail shooters. You're a stalwart human space hero fighting against the evil Skurgian aliens. Blow up enemy spaceships and enjoy alien warlords shaking their fist at the "pathetic human scum". Have I made my point yet? Great little game, takes about 45 minutes across nine levels, highly recommend.

I cannot recommend this game - it just doesn't work, and the support for it is horrible. I have seen some people who seem to be able to get it to work, and I wish them all the best. For me, it gets to the menu, I cna select a ship, but when I click "Play", it hangs. Music still plays, but no game. Worst of all, I can only kill it remotely, because it completely takes over the desktop - try to CTRL/ALT/DEL and you can't see task manager because the game is in the way. Can't minimize it. Can't ALT/TAB, because the instant you change windows, the game takes back over again.

And the support. What support? Steam has nothing in the way of support for this game, so far as I can tell. They say contact Activision. Activision has no reference to this game on their site anywhere, and you can't submit a ticket for anything that's not on the site. There is no generic way to contacxt support except Twitter, and so I am now engaged in a days-long Twitter conversation which has barely gotten past the "have you verified your game cache" stage.

It looked fun, but don't risk it. NOT WORTH THE RISK TO BUY.

Aces of the Galaxy is a classical rail shooter and has pretty much everything you could ask for. It's fun to play, has nice graphics and catchy music.
However, if you want to finish this game, you better allocate enough time. It's not a lengthy game, but it still lacks a save feature. Which is a bit poor.
Also, don't be surprised if power-ups float by outside the "rail", quite often they're beyond reach and you can't get them.

This game is a good old fashioned rail shooter that was decently executed.
Its bright and colorful, and fast paced.
However this is ZERO support for this game, and if you use dual monitors the game will crash. You will have to disable a monitor to play.

I suggest a 360 gamepad to play.