Ace Combat 8 Review Details 20-Hour Campaign And 20 Missions
A full review of a numbered Ace Combat entry confirms the campaign's scale ahead of release, and the reported volume is the term the series will be judged on after seven years without a new entry.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
Game*Spark reviewed Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, due October 2 from Bandai Namco Entertainment. The review reports the story follows Lieutenant Colonel Jean Cope, called "Wings of Theve," during the Republic of Sotoa's invasion of the Usean continent. It says the campaign has more than 20 missions, a full run took over 20 hours, and the game runs on Unreal Engine 5 plus the volumetric cloud engine Cloudly.
The review was written from a PC key supplied by Bandai Namco Entertainment, after one playthrough on Expert controls at Pilot (Normal) difficulty with a PS5 controller. Missions range from about 10 minutes to more than 35, and the campaign sits at over 20 missions, a figure the review compares to Ace Combat 5. Its length lands north of 20 hours once missions and cinematic scenes are counted. The review notes the title screen mixes aircraft noise with the sound of bombing, and says the game carries online modes among the largest in the series.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.