Aw hell yea! Arcade action dialed to the max with improved story cut-scenes, ever-excellent combat and greatly enhanced visuals.

With so many great releases popping up during this time (Plague's Tale, Control Resonant, Ghost of Yotei DLC, etc.), this is the one that takes priority!

ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE

We're so back!

Prologue as a PASSENGER!? Are they kidding? Guess that guy becomes our wingman from now on...

Oh never mind then

F-18 as a starting plane, and you can choose a plane for your teammates too. The starting plane can "canonically" do all⋆ the missions.

Characters are well performed, and behave like real people (well as far as the Strangereal universe goes)

There are a lot more cutscenes. No wonder it took them 7 years to release!

The story direction is also a big improvement over AC7: Skies Unknown.

That space elevator has seen some shit!

Caviar!? That's some gourmet rations on that ship!

Command system is back in the series too, we can now ask our wingmen to cover, disperse or attack a single target. There's a toggle for letting them engage special weapons (on a plane you can choose) too, although they seem to go wild with special ammunition!

There's no shortage of missions this time, with a total of 30 across various genres.

Photo mode is still missing however, hopefully they'll add it in an update.

My favorite, Su-57 is nerfed! Where did the pulse laser go!

Gameplay is as fun as ever, with an even better soundtrack to accompany!

Almost met the ground there at Mach 2!

Performance is generally very good, have not encountered a crash or major frame dips. Sometimes custom skin armor seems to be missing though.

In-game rendered cut-scenes look amazing too featuring player and ally aircraft with all customizations.

As it's custom with these games, a couple more campaign playthroughs are a must to unlock all aircraft and acquire the "S rank". Then there's a whole online mode waiting to be explored. How am I going to find all the time!