ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN
Dip your wingtips into this ace VR flight simulator
Long-running hybrid action-flight simulation series Ace Combat is being brought bang up to date in PS VR. This exclusive content comprises five totally original missions for a substantial three hours of content, alongside more than 20 non-VR missions in the main game.
Placing you into the cockpit of fighter jet callsign ‘Trigger,’ the full view of the skies is something special. The level we play taxies us through a base under siege, planes screaming overhead. Cross chatter is panicked and far from reassuring as the runway before us becomes cluttered with detritus raining from above. After a frantic and far from ideal take off, conservatively tapping i to accelerate and narrowly avoiding a craft explosively running aground, we’re up in the clouds.
WITH FLYING COLOURS
Soaring above the airfield, water droplets streak cockpit window. In the air, you can hide behind clouds during dogfights. Pirouetting through the sky using
uo and to dip your wingtips left and right feels unreal, though helpfully (if you’re concerned about motion sickness) the barrel rolling is grounded by seeing your virtual body sitting in the cockpit.
Chasing hostiles through the air, incoming missile alerts ringing in your ears, sky battles are intense and balletic. Twirling out of the path of projectiles, we finally get a lock on that elusive target. We double-tap our own missile deployment trigger and hold our breath. Both fall in a plume of black smoke, drawing our mission to a successful close, and 2019 will start with a bang.
“THE FULL VIEW OF THE SKIES IS SOMETHING SPECIAL.”