Game

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown

2019 · PlayStation 4 · PlayStation VR · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Xbox One · Nintendo Switch · Shooter · Simulator · Arcade

82IGDB player score
118 ratings

Previously Take

A respectable 82 average that never found its audience. A shooter where the writing does the heavy lifting. Science fiction, drama that stick with you after the credits. The story is the main course; the multiplayer is the reason it's still installed years later.

About this game

Leveraging the trueSKY technology and developed utilizing Unreal Engine 4, Ace Combat 7 will astound players with beautifully rendered skies and highly detailed cityscapes but also set the stage for the most engaging aerial battles in the franchise’s storied 20 year history accompanied with an immersive soundtrack. Ace Combat 7 will take the elements that the series is known for to a whole new level! Aces who have proven their combat prowess in Ace Combat 7’s campaign mode can take their dogfighting skills further with furious online multiplayer battles. PlayStation4 players will also be able to get immersed in ACE COMBAT 7’s realism through exclusive features developed specifically for PlayStationVR.

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown returns to the series' fictional world of Strangereal, where the Osean Federation and the Kingdom of Erusea are drawn into a bitter aerial war sparked by a towering space elevator each side sees very differently. Players take on the role of an Osean fighter pilot known by the callsign Trigger, a skilled aviator whose career is upended when he is blamed for a catastrophe and cast into an expendable penal squadron. Flying through storm-wracked skies against elite enemy aces and swarms of advanced combat drones, Trigger must prove himself mission after dangerous mission. As the conflict spirals beyond anyone's control, the story follows soldiers, engineers, and royalty on both sides who come to question what they are really fighting for.