An AC3E review from the distant year of 2002

Review by IcemanUK

"Sublime"

>>INTRODUCTION

'Electrosphere’ : infinite passages to information derived from optical communication... Your judgement will decide the world of the future.

Your judgement will decide.

This may well be the epitaph of AC3 and this review. AC3 is the third in Namco’s AC series and something of a serendipitous find on my part when I picked up the game one wet Wednesday afternoon at my local game importer.

They are USEA's first line of defense.Best of friends, fierce competitors.Ready to protect it against any threat.But what if the enemy... is one of them?

Introducing Iceman-UK's blog "Eject Disc"

Project NEMO co-founder IcemanUK has just launched his own blog Eject Disc, where he's gonna write, and I quote, "Articles on cycling, life, fitness, travel, food, open-source, tech, retro-tech, life in Hampshire and more". Be sure to check it out!

And for his first post he wrote about his experience at this year's OggCamp, a type of conference for people in the IT industry, where he introduced our AC3 fan-translation project to the audience there on Aug 19th. He'd done the same thing many years ago for the Front Mission series fan-translation project which he was also a part of. We worked together on some PowerPoint slides that he then presented himself along with some special videos that showcase Project NEMO, such as an exclusive preview of the new version of the game's first mission and a movie-style trailer, to further illustrate and wow those in attendance. And thanks to popular demand, he then made an encore presentation the very next day on Aug 20th. Thank you Iceman, and thank you to those who were there to hear about our project!

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Dai Satō & the Prototype for Electrosphere: Cowboy Bebop's Brain Scratch vs. Ace Combat 3

Unlike GITS, which AC3 has often been compared to, you're guaranteed to never see AC3 and Cowboy Bebop mentioned in the same sentence, which couldn't be more ironic. Find out why after the jump.

Introducing Krishty's model viewer

Some months ago I was checking the blog's analytics and I found that it had received some traffic from a German forum. Curious enough to check, I discovered the work of a developer who had a particular interest in AC3 and its models.
Wanna see something really cool?

Drawing parallels between AC3 and GITS: analysis of animation, setting and themes

The Ghost in the Shell movie and Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere are my favorite anime film and video-game respectively. In time I started noticing similarities between them, enough to make me want to dive in and elaborate on the threads that these two works have in common.

12.14.2016 The revolution goes live

AC3 OP HD aka psx h4x0rz in teh electr0sphere

I was checking out some blogs and I recently came across a post detailing the process used to make an HD version of the Valkyrie Profile opening video, which made me want to try and do the same thing for Ace Combat 3. More info in the video description:

AC3E part of UGSF, timeline now in English!

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The UGSF timeline, which puts AC3E in the same universe as classic Namco retro games such as Galaxian, Galaga, Dig Dug and Cyber Commando, is finally in English!

Namco Official Wallpaper Complete Collection

Here are all the official wallpapers published by Namco. These are the originals from before the Namco/Bandai merger so they say "NAMCO LTD." instead of "NBGI".