Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown

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We get the feeling Project Aces is trying to impress us. As we sit in the cockpit of our F/A-18F Super Hornet and trundle towards the runway, all hell breaks loose. Fighter jets careen towards the ground like meteors while a friendly tank fires wildly into the sky; next, a plane hurtles across our path, missing our nose cone by a hair before exploding into a fireball. This is typical virtual reality showboating – dramatic stuff, but gimmicky.

But as soon as we pull up into the skies to defend the airbase, we forget about the ground-based theatrics entirely. Here is where Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown’s VR mode really comes into its own, as we dip and loop after enemy pilots, even flying upside-down comfortably for long stretches as the fictional world of Strangereal falls away above us. “There’s a lot of knowledge of techniques crammed into this,” series producer