Ace Combat 8 hands-on preview and interview – ‘it became real-life quite quickly’

Ace Combat 8 – Tom Cruise eat your heart out (Bandai Namco)

The world’s favourite air combat simulator returns for another sortie, with a very modern take on aerial warfare and the fog (and clouds) of war.

With Red Dead Redemption 2 recently becoming the third best-selling video game of all-time it’s a constant frustration that video game sales figures are given out so inconsistently, because finding out that 2019’s Ace Combat 7 has sold a nominatively appropriate 7.5 million copies is something of a revelation. In retrospect, we’re not sure what we expected but it proves that, despite our fears, Ace Combat, and combat flight sims in general, are not quite the niche concern we assumed them to be.

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