![]() ![]() But that’s just Ace Combat for you.īetween soliloquies and aerial carnage, you purchase new craft and upgrades to customize your overhead battles. In the chaos, the player winds up in a Dirty Dozen-style squadron of convicted criminals, crosses paths with an engineer accused of a crime she didn’t commit, and battles a dying war veteran. The Lighthouse is a controversial space elevator built to fuel the reconstruction efforts of a country ravaged by an asteroid. (God, this series just has the most evocative names the super-railgun is called “Stonehenge,” by the way.) It’s definitely not what you’d expect from a game largely about shooting missiles at MiGs.Īce Combat 7 specifically tells the tale of a war fought for the Lighthouse. The intricacies of these fantastical wars, fought throughout the Strangereal timeline, take on a stolid humanity. And the somber tone of the game’s stories - typically side plots narrated by characters other than your mute pilot - adds a level of personal investment. It’s all just off-kilter enough to feel weirdly believable. But then the space elevators, skyscraper-sized railguns, and force fields show up. Ace Combat normally looks the part of a perfectly average war game. Skies Unknown itself places a heavy emphasis on the political ramifications of drone warfare. ![]() Most of the aircraft you pilot look like modern military jets. I say “mildly” bizarre because it has quite a few similarities to our own world. The Strangereal, if you don’t know, is the mildly bizarre fictional universe in which Ace Combat takes place. More than that, though, they have a fascinating stylistic hook in the form of the “Strangereal.” The games have always had some of the most stylish, gratifying air-to-air battles around. Luckily, I can think of few series better suited to resurrect the old genre than Ace Combat itself. More accurately, they pretty much don’t make big budget, arcade dogfighting games… period, anymore. And Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown is a good reminder that they really don’t make them like they used to. It’s been a minute since the last proper Ace Combat game. ![]()
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