Ace Combat Zero

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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War is the prequel to Ace Combat 5 and one of the most celebrated entries in Namco's long-running aerial combat series on PS2. Developed by Namco's Project Aces team and released in 2006, it is set in the series' fictional Strangereal world and puts you in the cockpit as Cipher, the legendary mercenary ace who flies for Ustio with his wingman Larry "Pixy" Foulke in the 1995 Belkan War, a war that reshaped the balance of power across a continent. The story is told through a clever framing device: a television documentary, made a decade later, in which journalist Brett Thompson interviews the pilots and survivors who crossed paths with the player. It lends the campaign a mythic, almost spaghetti-western quality that sets it apart from other flight combat games of its era.

The gameplay is sharp and deeply satisfying: a wide roster of real-world aircraft to unlock with credits, up to the fictional ADFX-01 Morgan and X-02 Wyvern, and dogfights that manage to feel cinematic and mechanically rewarding at the same time. The Ace Style system tracks how you fight, pulling a gauge toward Mercenary, Soldier or Knight depending on whether you destroy everything in sight or protect allies and spare non-hostile targets. That choice changes the radio chatter, the cutscenes, the veterans the documentary interviews and which enemy ace squadrons appear, which gives the game genuine replay value and draws players back into missions to see what they missed the first time. Duels with those elite Belkan squadrons, in a war fought over the deadly airspace known as the Round Table, are some of the most memorable moments the PS2 offered in the genre.

Aurally and visually, Ace Combat Zero holds up remarkably well. Its flamenco-inspired soundtrack, overseen by music director Keiki Kobayashi, sets Spanish guitar against the roar of afterburners and missile-lock tones in a way that somehow works brilliantly, and it has kept a devoted following years after release. The game arrived late in the PS2's lifespan, shipped nearly 800,000 units worldwide by 2008, and remains a favorite among fans who consider it a high point, or even the high point, of the series.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
2006
Publisher
Namco Bandai Games
Developer
Project Aces
Players
Single player, Split screen
About the game

The sixth installment in the Ace Combat series explores the Belkan War, a devastating conflict alluded to in Ace Combat 5. In the game's main story mode, the player takes control of a mercenary pilot, callsign "Cipher", taking part in the Belkan War by advancing through aerial combat, escort, assault, and defense missions. The story is told through the eyes of a reporter, 10 years after the conflict, uncovering secrets of the war by interviewing some of the pilots the player shoots down.

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