Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies

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Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies (released as Ace Combat: Distant Thunder in Europe) is a 2001 combat flight simulation video game developed and published by Namco for the PlayStation 2. It is the fourth entry in the Ace Combat series, the first to be released for the PlayStation 2, and the first to feature the series' eventual main setting of "Strangereal". The plot, set in an alternate universe where Earth has been ravaged by asteroid impacts, follows the player character "Mobius 1", a fighter pilot in a multinational military coalition who spearheads the liberation of the fictional continent of Usea from the expansionist country of Erusea. Ace Combat 04 started development as a reboot of the franchise, following the indifferent reception of Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere. The game was developed by "AC04 Project", a team of developers who previously worked on Ace Combat 3. Ace Combat 04 features arcade-style gameplay with elements of both realism and fantasy. For example, while the game has...

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