You pay $60 for the core game, and another $25 for the season pass (you can buy each DLC mission individually, but they’re all linked together as they’re own mini-campaign, so I don’t recommend it). On top of that, Ace Combat’s monetization is delightfully traditional. RELATED: ToeJam And Earl: Back In The Groove Is The Most Slept-On Game Of 2019 We see that every year with blockbuster hits like Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War, and this year’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and yet developers keep shoveling cash into battle royale knockoffs and “games as a service” multiplayer titles. It’s this kind of story-telling that players crave. That likely would have been enough, but Ace Combat 7 went the extra mile with an engaging (if slightly convoluted) story split between four characters and a silent protagonist which all culminates in a memorable finale. Those aircraft, by the way, are all real jet fighters in service with various air forces around the world, although the world of Ace Combat is entirely fictional.Īll of this tapped into the little boy inside that remembers watching Top Gun on repeat for hours on end. You pull maneuvers that would normally turn a pilot inside-out and fire more missiles up other planes' tailpipes than any of the aircraft portrayed can actually hold. What Ace Combat 7 does extremely well is making the player feel like a true ace pilot. You can dive without fear of tearing your wings off and turn on your sides without fear of sliding into the ground– both of which you’d need to worry about if you were in a real plane. You have two control styles that will appeal to either players with zero flight-sim experience or players that remember their Microsoft Flight Simulator days, but the actual physics of the game aren’t really geared toward simulating reality. Ace Combat 7 is less of a flight simulator and more like a flight action game.
If you’ve never played a recent Ace Combat game, don’t be fooled by how they look. But more than that, Ace Combat 7 also harkens back to a type of game that you rarely see these days: one that’s focused on a single-player campaign with zero microtransactions. Everything about the game, from its full cinematic cutscenes to the pulse-pounding soundtrack to the intense aerial combat action was precisely what I wanted in a game. It took just the first tutorial mission for me to get me hooked.
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