It’s just a shame most of them are variations on grey.The first game in the series was Ace Combat, a Playstation launch title, and the series then had a rough release schedule of a new entry every two years until the PS3 / 360 generation. You’ll earn medals for certain actions, such as shooting down named aces, or destroying a certain number of ground targets, and these unlock new nicknames, emblems or skins for your plane. Thankfully, the missions are a lot of fun to replay. You can also buy parts for your craft that improve various attributes such as top speed, missile capacity, lock on speed and damage collision reduction (useful if you’re particularly prone to hitting the deck) so you can get your bird set up just the way you like it.īy the end of the campaign we’d made it to the F-22 Raptor that sits at the very top of the tree, but you’ll need to go back and rerun missions to earn the extra cash to unlock them all. There are 25+ planes to unlock through the aircraft tree, paid for with MRP earned during missions. The jets themselves look great carving up the sky, while the little slithers of vapour that appear along the leading edges under tight turns, along with glints from the sun, really help to place them.
Trying to get a missile lock tone through that was lots of fun. In one mission you’re flying low in a canyon full of rocky columns and have severely reduced visibility, leading to a lot of PULL UP, PULL UP warnings flashing over the HUD.
Rather than battling exclusively under crystal clear skies as in previous Ace Combats, 7 has lightning and forebodingly dense clouds.ĭog fighting in electrical storms not only looks supercool, but it can also mess with your radar and targeting systems, making it much harder to track and target your enemies. One of the big new features is the weather. There will be long periods of time where you’re chasing an enemy trying to get a lock, which can feel frustrating, but ultimately very rewarding when you down them in a ball of flames and a hail of machine gun fire. The latter, and especially the later missions of the campaign, will test your flying skills to their limits.
There are stealth objectives that task you with using cloud cover to sneak through a maze of enemy radars, a score attack where you need to cause a certain amount of destruction to unlock the next objective, escort missions, and the always reliable shoot down a specific enemy ace.
For a game about shooting down enemy bogies and bombing various evil things, Ace Combat 7 sure does manage to fit a lot of different mission types in.
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