Ace Combat 8 Elevates High-Voltage Dogfights With Wistful Melodrama - CNET
Up in the digital skies, I sortie with my squad (sortie, that was the word), staying quiet as they sound off over comms. A stalwart lecturer, a daredevil peacenik and a stoic rocker drifted off the edges of my wings (they’ll back you up if you bring them home). We cruise ahead, lighthearted bickering layered over views of the clearest blue over blankets of puffy white. A contact hits the edge of our radar, orders come spilling in from below, and as one, we peel off to find our enemy in the air (I can almost feel the wind).
The prologue kicking off Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, the latest game in the fighter jet combat franchise that debuted in 1995, is riddled with voiceovers loftily espousing the aviator’s philosophy of communing with the skies. It’s a little much, I thought, as I struggled to adjust to the game’s...
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