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Ace Combat 8: Wings Of Theve - Announcement Trailer
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From here. So the premise is that your country made a Ghost of Kiev and you have to pretend to be them, lol. Funny premise. AC7 was great so this could be GOTY 2026 for me
Ukraine actually did that too, they have a real MiG-29 squadron called the Ghosts of Kyiv now lol.
But I like the set up, reminds me of Ace Combat X Skies of Deception, the PSP one.
Sotoa is supposed to be some failed petrostate (ran out of oil) that borders the in universe version Iraq and Lebanon, so that's an interesting antagonist.
From interviews coming out from project aces, Sotoa is basically Iran, with an inland sea (Caspian), near Yuktobania (Russia) and Middle Eastern states as previously mentioned, and in game the culture is based on the Parthians.
I hope we get Chinese jets too.
oh god I hope the recent tensions between Japan and China don't see anything Chinese cut from the game
I'm fine with missing out on the Chinese jets that are visually similar to their Soviet/Russian Flanker counterparts, but it's time that we get at least a J-20, hopefully a J-35 too.
Can we stop having a war on the continent of Usea for 5 minutes?!
The game that chickened out of doing a full blown Osea bad plotline (in universe, Osea is the stand in for the USA), and completely dropped it halfway through the game to do a "ehhh, it was Belka's fault yet again" is good. Okay.
I'm not really going into Ace Combat expecting anything out of the story. Like I won't complain if it's good but I'm not gonna be that disappointed if it's mid like I would be for an RPG. The gameplay was great and that's what I'm there for.