Ace Combat 8: Wings Of Theve - Review

The HuntIn the skies above the Strangereal, I dive and flip and turn. There, below — an enemy F-14, flying low. I center my view, and I watch the drag of my own jet's nose reticle smoothly lock into position. They're flying too slow. They don't see me yet. I press a button and loose a missile from under my wings. It darts ahead of me gracefully, a pure-white trail of smoke behind it. I skim the water, trailing behind my own deadly barrage. The missile sinks home, plunging into the target's fuselage, igniting into a bright orange fireball that almost immediately resolves into a dark smoking wreckage hovering above the water. That was my kill. My glorious fireball and 450 points. Flying through it at hundreds of miles per hour, my viewscreen is momentarily blacked out. When it returns, there is the blue sky, the dark water, and so many more target icons, just waiting to be turned into points and explosions. (Re-)Joining the FCUI more or less said as much in my last write-up, but Ace…