don't worry about this version. the AH stuff isn't in this game. you can play this 100% like you did in the older games it looks like, however you also *can* choose to do evasive manuevers, both for offense and defense. it speeds things up when you're trying to get a bastard who keeps flying away/flying around in circles to avoid a missile. but that's up to you. have done a couple missions with little use of it, even though the game tells you. you can't really spam it exactly, and it works damn well in this game.
if you're familiar with Sky Crawlers, they took the mechanics from that game. if you aren't, it's basically Ace Combat Wii (AC devs themselves made it). so think more like ACX than AC:AH.
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