And, if Namco Bandai's focus groups were illustrative of a wider consumer desire, that's what the gamers want.Īce Combat - the quintessential Japanese air combat series, positioned in that console-perfect sweet spot between After Burner's spasmodic arcade thrills and Microsoft Flight Simulator's nerdish reservations - has been unflinchingly repositioned for the Modern Warfare generation. That's the bull's-eye marketing quotation the PR men are hoping the critics will pen: a triple-A quip, ripe for sticking on the poster.
That's what New York Times bestselling military author, Jim DeFelice, was asked to target when lining up the characters and arc of the story. That's what the designers were told to shoot for by their spreadsheet-watching producers.
