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# Unreal Engine 4 photorealistic clouds Dynamic weather impacts gameplay Exclusive PlayStation VR missions Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown (PS4)

**Brand:** bandai namco
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## Summary

> ✈️ Rule the skies or watch others soar — don’t miss the ultimate Ace Combat experience!

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- **What is this?** Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown (PS4) by bandai namco
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## Key Features

- • **Next-Level VR Combat:** Step inside the cockpit with exclusive PlayStation VR missions for an unparalleled immersive flight experience.
- • **Generous Campaign Depth:** Dive into 20 varied missions with stealth, escort, and epic boss fights that keep adrenaline high and strategy sharp.
- • **Adaptive Weather Warfare:** Master sudden weather shifts—from sandstorms to thunderstorms—to outmaneuver your enemies in dynamic, unpredictable battles.
- • **Immersive Skies & Scenery:** Experience breathtaking photorealistic visuals powered by Unreal Engine 4, making every flight a cinematic masterpiece.
- • **Authentic & Futuristic Arsenal:** Fly a diverse fleet of real-world and near-future aircraft, blending nostalgia with cutting-edge aerial combat tech.

## Overview

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown for PS4 delivers a visually stunning and deeply immersive air combat experience, featuring dynamic weather effects, a robust 20-mission campaign, and exclusive VR content. Powered by Unreal Engine 4, it combines authentic and futuristic aircraft in a richly detailed alternative universe, making it a must-have for fans and newcomers craving high-octane aerial warfare.

## Description

Putting gamers in the cockpit of the most advanced war planes ever developed, ACE COMBAT 7: Skies Unknown delivers a fierce air combat experience through photorealistic visuals, intense dog-fighting action, a multitude of authentic and futuristic aircraft to fly, an immersive storyline, and even virtual reality with PlayStation VR! Leveraging the power of the newest generation gaming consoles, ACE COMBAT 7: Skies Unknown will blow players away with the evolution of its graphics engine. Beautifully rendered cloud-filled skies and highly detailed cityscapes enhance the sense of unparalleled speed and set the stage for the most engaging aerial battles in the franchise’s storied 20 year history. ACE COMBAT 7: Skies Unknown will provide an arsenal of ultra-modern super weapons and formidable enemies that the series is known for. PlayStation4 players will be further immersed in ACE COMBAT 7: Skies Unknown’s realism through exclusive missions developed specifically for the Sony PlayStation VR. PS4 Game

Review: Aces rule the skies again! - This is a fantastic return to form after the last 'good' Ace Combat (AC) game - AC6 Fires of Liberation. This scraps away the on-rails, cinematic experiment that was AC Assault Horizon and completely ignores AC Infinity, returning to familiar lands, fast jets and a featuring a generous campaign. Pros + A good, length campaign with varied, interesting missions. Sure there are standard 'destroy everything' missions but there are now stealth & escort missions, spectacular boss fights all livened up by... + Spectacular weather effects and much improved topography. Diving into cloud cover to escape a missile lock, hunting fuel lorries in a sandstorm, dog-fighting through mountains in a thunder storm, it looks excellent and really impacts on the games fun factor. Terrain and cities in particular have seen vast improvements in appearances. + Beautiful graphics. Really this game needs a dedicated photo mode - the sun dappling through the clouds, the missile streaks and of course, the planes themselves - excellent. + Sound design. This is particularly good although the constant missile blare can annoy, wearing headphones is very immersive! Music is great across the board, particularly the boss battles and the penultimate level (although nothing compares to 'The Liberation of Gracemaria', youtube it) and the voice acting is adequate with the usual silly lines. + Generous campaign. Its a good length available with three difficulty levels, 20 levels and two control options (pro hint - play with Expert, much more immersive and this should be the default - looking at you IGN...) with 'normal' being suitably challenging. + Fandom. After some wobbly games this is a real gift back to the Ace Combat fans, big levels, big missions and battles. In an age where content is being cut left, right and centre - this feels like a (mostly) full package. + VR. At last a game that really goes for VR, three special missions (although quite ordinary in themselves) that really utilise the VR with the Playstation. Worth buying just for this (its short but sweet). + Improved multiplayer options. Its a step in the right direction and it is quite fun (see cons however) + No loot boxes, no EA, no pay to win, no in game currency, no collectors cards, no Konami etc. Cons (the below are mostly negligible) - They couldn't resist a 'season pass' however, shame. Apparently this will include several extra planes and three new missions, time will tell if this is any good. - Cut-scenes galore. Look you can just skip them, and the core of the story is quite good (suicide squad with jet planes?) but many of the cut-scenes are just...well plain boring. It gets better and heck, they certainly tried and put good money into it! (6 x better story then Fallout 76). - Timed missions. This is a bit of a headscratcher to be honest, i'm not really sure what they were thinking with one or two of the missions and the tough timer requirements. I've never failed to a time out...but its been close occasionally. - Online multiplayer is dominated by pro players who have already unlocked the best planes by day 2 - wait until you are suitably experienced! Overall If you have a passing interest in jet planes, or historically liked games such as Burnout and Metal Gear Solid (basically those two things combined, with jet planes), this is everything you could hope for. Ace Combat fans rejoice, Aces rule the skies once more! Note 1 - Total flight time in the (normal) campaign was measured at six and a half hours, plus probably another two hours of cut scenes, VR is plus another hour give or take. Note 2 - What is it with final missions in these sort of games making you fly down tiny tunnels??
Review: Worth the wait - In recent years games developers have shown a real talent for completely wrecking a franchise by either losing sight of what made a game's predecessors so good (Gran Turismo being a perfect example), neglecting long-standing fans (Gran Turismo being a perfect example) or just allowing characters and storylines to be ruined by Political Correctness and Social Justice, either making a game unrealistic, difficult for the majority of people to identify with or just feeling like some kind of progressive morality lecture. Thankfully, Bandai Namco have managed to avoid all of these pitfalls (although the "badass" young female character in the cinematic story cutaways isn't particularly believeable, especially when she starts trash-talking her own dad!) and have come up with superb addition to the Ace Combat series. All of the stuff you loved about previous games is there, but it still feels fresh and exciting thanks to some clever new mission ideas, an involving story and of course the even better graphics and physics. I've been a fan of these games ever since Air Combat on the PS1 and this really doesn't disappoint. My only criticisms: -It's pretty much impossible to compare aircraft stats thanks to the bizarre choice of using numberless bars to indicate stats, and not even giving the ability to easily move straight from one aircraft to another. It's pretty frustrating when you want to conserve your in-game currency and try to get the most bang for your buck when upgrading your aircraft. Thankfully someone on Reddit has painstakingly gone through and worked out numbers for every aircraft, but it seems like a massive oversight for what would have been such a simple detail of just adding a number next to the bar indicator. -The drone-focused missions are just too chaotic. You're basically just frantically flying around all over the place rather than thinking about tactics or strategy and, even within the allowances of a computer game, these missions just seem to feel rushed and lose their realism. -The storyline can be a bit confusing with all of the similar-sounding country names and the fact that they all talk with an American accent! -It would have been nice to see a wider selection of aircraft. There are quite a lot, but the number and variety in the earlier games is missing. These are minor criticisms though so I'm still giving it 5 stars. It's a superb game and will have tons of replay value thanks to the different mission replay options. I haven't even tried out the online multiplayer or VR modes yet either.

## Features

- RETURN TO STRANGEREAL WORLD - The alternative Ace Combat universe composed of real-world current and near-future weapons, but with a history steeped in Ace Combat lore.
- DYNAMIC WEATHER - Witness the sudden changes during your flight and strive to fight the environmental conditions to take advantage over your enemy.
- VIRTUAL COMBAT - VR missions made exclusively for the PlayStation VR that provide unprecedented flight immersion.
- UNREAL ENGINE 4 - Breath-taking clouds coupled with highly detailed aircraft and photorealistic scenery makes this the most engaging Ace Combat to date

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | B073FFRVKQ |
| Customer reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (3,266) |
| Is discontinued by manufacturer  | No |
| Item model number  | 112150 |
| Language  | English |
| Product Dimensions  | 1.4 x 1.7 x 0.2 cm; 80 g |
| Rated  | Ages 16 & Over |
| Release date  | 18 Jan. 2019 |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Aces rule the skies again!
*by M***P on 21 January 2019*

This is a fantastic return to form after the last 'good' Ace Combat (AC) game - AC6 Fires of Liberation. This scraps away the on-rails, cinematic experiment that was AC Assault Horizon and completely ignores AC Infinity, returning to familiar lands, fast jets and a featuring a generous campaign. Pros + A good, length campaign with varied, interesting missions. Sure there are standard 'destroy everything' missions but there are now stealth & escort missions, spectacular boss fights all livened up by... + Spectacular weather effects and much improved topography. Diving into cloud cover to escape a missile lock, hunting fuel lorries in a sandstorm, dog-fighting through mountains in a thunder storm, it looks excellent and really impacts on the games fun factor. Terrain and cities in particular have seen vast improvements in appearances. + Beautiful graphics. Really this game needs a dedicated photo mode - the sun dappling through the clouds, the missile streaks and of course, the planes themselves - excellent. + Sound design. This is particularly good although the constant missile blare can annoy, wearing headphones is very immersive! Music is great across the board, particularly the boss battles and the penultimate level (although nothing compares to 'The Liberation of Gracemaria', youtube it) and the voice acting is adequate with the usual silly lines. + Generous campaign. Its a good length available with three difficulty levels, 20 levels and two control options (pro hint - play with Expert, much more immersive and this should be the default - looking at you IGN...) with 'normal' being suitably challenging. + Fandom. After some wobbly games this is a real gift back to the Ace Combat fans, big levels, big missions and battles. In an age where content is being cut left, right and centre - this feels like a (mostly) full package. + VR. At last a game that really goes for VR, three special missions (although quite ordinary in themselves) that really utilise the VR with the Playstation. Worth buying just for this (its short but sweet). + Improved multiplayer options. Its a step in the right direction and it is quite fun (see cons however) + No loot boxes, no EA, no pay to win, no in game currency, no collectors cards, no Konami etc. Cons (the below are mostly negligible) - They couldn't resist a 'season pass' however, shame. Apparently this will include several extra planes and three new missions, time will tell if this is any good. - Cut-scenes galore. Look you can just skip them, and the core of the story is quite good (suicide squad with jet planes?) but many of the cut-scenes are just...well plain boring. It gets better and heck, they certainly tried and put good money into it! (6 x better story then Fallout 76). - Timed missions. This is a bit of a headscratcher to be honest, i'm not really sure what they were thinking with one or two of the missions and the tough timer requirements. I've never failed to a time out...but its been close occasionally. - Online multiplayer is dominated by pro players who have already unlocked the best planes by day 2 - wait until you are suitably experienced! Overall If you have a passing interest in jet planes, or historically liked games such as Burnout and Metal Gear Solid (basically those two things combined, with jet planes), this is everything you could hope for. Ace Combat fans rejoice, Aces rule the skies once more! Note 1 - Total flight time in the (normal) campaign was measured at six and a half hours, plus probably another two hours of cut scenes, VR is plus another hour give or take. Note 2 - What is it with final missions in these sort of games making you fly down tiny tunnels??

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Worth the wait
*by R***Y on 23 January 2019*

In recent years games developers have shown a real talent for completely wrecking a franchise by either losing sight of what made a game's predecessors so good (Gran Turismo being a perfect example), neglecting long-standing fans (Gran Turismo being a perfect example) or just allowing characters and storylines to be ruined by Political Correctness and Social Justice, either making a game unrealistic, difficult for the majority of people to identify with or just feeling like some kind of progressive morality lecture. Thankfully, Bandai Namco have managed to avoid all of these pitfalls (although the "badass" young female character in the cinematic story cutaways isn't particularly believeable, especially when she starts trash-talking her own dad!) and have come up with superb addition to the Ace Combat series. All of the stuff you loved about previous games is there, but it still feels fresh and exciting thanks to some clever new mission ideas, an involving story and of course the even better graphics and physics. I've been a fan of these games ever since Air Combat on the PS1 and this really doesn't disappoint. My only criticisms: -It's pretty much impossible to compare aircraft stats thanks to the bizarre choice of using numberless bars to indicate stats, and not even giving the ability to easily move straight from one aircraft to another. It's pretty frustrating when you want to conserve your in-game currency and try to get the most bang for your buck when upgrading your aircraft. Thankfully someone on Reddit has painstakingly gone through and worked out numbers for every aircraft, but it seems like a massive oversight for what would have been such a simple detail of just adding a number next to the bar indicator. -The drone-focused missions are just too chaotic. You're basically just frantically flying around all over the place rather than thinking about tactics or strategy and, even within the allowances of a computer game, these missions just seem to feel rushed and lose their realism. -The storyline can be a bit confusing with all of the similar-sounding country names and the fact that they all talk with an American accent! -It would have been nice to see a wider selection of aircraft. There are quite a lot, but the number and variety in the earlier games is missing. These are minor criticisms though so I'm still giving it 5 stars. It's a superb game and will have tons of replay value thanks to the different mission replay options. I haven't even tried out the online multiplayer or VR modes yet either.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ace Combat returns!
*by R***A on 8 April 2025*

The long awaited 7th installment is an amazing game. Incorporating the classic gameplay of the PS2 games with updated graphics for the PS4. Their is a storyline, which is fairly typical Ace Combat fair, but not the best the series has to offer. Mission variety is good though. The best part about the PS4 version though is the VR mode, which is a great experience. It is a shame that only a few missions are playable this way, and not the whole game. I would recommend this to new players and existing fans alike, even though it is not my favourite entry in the series.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown (Includes a digital download copy of ‘Ace Combat Squadron Leader')"
- Air Missions HIND - PlayStation 4

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