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Some missions start off with you at the runway, but most begin with you in mid-flight, and none of the missions ask you to land.

If you're new to the Ace Combat series, you'll find this to be a flight game with more emphasis on action than simulation. The story is easy to get into, and even though most players will ignore it since it rarely has anything to do with the missions, the players who do follow the series' lore will feel rewarded. All of the scenes are overly dramatic, but the location names and the dialogue can make the tale seem less serious and more goofy. The initial disconnect between the cut scene narrative and the tale being told through gameplay can be jarring, but series veterans will recognize it as being par for the course. Separately and eventually together, the duo works to stop the war from escalating. Meanwhile, most of the mission has you playing someone with the callsign Trigger, a rookie pilot who's also been caught up in the war. She's fixing up her plane in the hopes of breaking the sound barrier, but on her maiden flight, she inadvertently gets caught up in the start of a new war between Osea and Erusea, and she's taken prisoner to a decoy air base. The game opens with narration from Avril, a young woman who was born into a family of pilots. After more than a decade, the seventh main entry in the series, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, has arrived on the PC as well as the PS4 and Xbox One.įrom the moment the first cut scene appears, longtime fans will recognize that the series has returned to familiar territory, particularly the realm of Strangereal, where the countries of Erusea and Osea were at war with one another. The absence of this series led to indie developers picking up the slack, so PC-only players could still get an Ace Combat-like experience with titles like Vector Thrust and RaidersSphere4th. Each entry was exclusive to the platform it debuted on, and the only entry to go multiplatform and also appear on the PC was Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, a title that's been divisive amongst fans.

For decades, the Ace Combat series has been exclusive to consoles.