Squad commands in Ace Combat Zero worked because Pixy was a competent wingman that would listen to them and you could set him to attack only air or only ground targets of you wanted, Ace Combat 5 squad commands were a crapshoot and useless at times. But it does look like squad commands are back. The cutscenes remind me a lot of Assault Horizon, apparently the same design lead that made those is making them for Ace Combat 8, which explains the first person view and free look camera. That makes me a bit worried to be honest. But the problems with Assault Horizon were not the cutscenes itself, but the generic real world story. It also looks as if you can equip your aircraft with two "special weapons" at the same time, so that's interesting.