Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown

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User Score
7.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 211 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 138 out of 211
  2. Mixed: 36 out of 211
  3. Negative: 37 out of 211

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  1. Nolfy
    Feb 4, 2020
    0
    Money grabs between game publisher and Thrustmaster. They have an agreement to support some of Thrustmaster's HOTAS, but only a select few. Older HOTAs could perfectly work with game, but they choose not to enable this. Emulate drivers does work or using joystick emulation tools, but that is poor mans solution and no excuse for the game dev's.
  2. GranFabian
    May 9, 2020
    0
    An extremely boring and repetitive game. Little innovative missions, excessive and extremely unnecessary dialogue, basic story and little engaging. Unrealistic graphics, especially on the floor. It does not have support for joystich, 21: 9 screen (super wide), inaudible sounds of the turbines and the breaking of the hypersonic barrier. Little immersive dogfights and total confusion in someAn extremely boring and repetitive game. Little innovative missions, excessive and extremely unnecessary dialogue, basic story and little engaging. Unrealistic graphics, especially on the floor. It does not have support for joystich, 21: 9 screen (super wide), inaudible sounds of the turbines and the breaking of the hypersonic barrier. Little immersive dogfights and total confusion in some missions. Anyway, if you expect an air war simulation game you will be disappointed. Difficulty levels and poorly scaled AI. Their bots don't help you with almost anything. Anyway, a game that seems to have been released in 2012. I prefer TC HAWX.… Expand
  3. Wiebe
    Feb 26, 2020
    3
    Basic not so fun game, dont know what the fuss is about....................
  4. ryuzo7980
    Feb 1, 2019
    3
    This game is joke. Seriously. Its a same stuff that was in 04 and there is nothing new since 2001. Storytelling is crap and full of boring cliches. Some of missions is just copy paste from previous games with slight changes and still stupid dialogues that extends already LONG missions. And overall missions is just only 20. Just 20. Remember Ace Combat 3 from 1999? Then AC7 game is the realThis game is joke. Seriously. Its a same stuff that was in 04 and there is nothing new since 2001. Storytelling is crap and full of boring cliches. Some of missions is just copy paste from previous games with slight changes and still stupid dialogues that extends already LONG missions. And overall missions is just only 20. Just 20. Remember Ace Combat 3 from 1999? Then AC7 game is the real MQ99 destroying and MISSILE evading simulator and nothing else.
    Ace Combat is dead.    … Expand
  5. CyborgX
    Feb 2, 2019
    1
    No TrackIR support, No flightstick support. If you love flight game don't buy it.
  6. btdc
    Feb 15, 2019
    1
    Without proper controlling options, this doesn't deserve a proper score. Such a shame in 2019
  7. crawlord
    Feb 1, 2019
    1
    On pc right now prepare to be disappointed.The graphics for ground targets for example are meh. This is a 2010 game with same copy pasta missions and generic story-line Lesson learnt . Nope.
  8. Irza1919
    Feb 23, 2019
    2
    how come that after decades of work on this game H.A.W.X is still vastly superior as a game. I mean what the **** have they been doing all this time? This game isn't technically a 2, it's more like a 5 but there aren't even ****ing keyboard controls that make sense on a ****ing PC release. Why in the holy **** name would You release a PC game that can only be played on a controller? Don'thow come that after decades of work on this game H.A.W.X is still vastly superior as a game. I mean what the **** have they been doing all this time? This game isn't technically a 2, it's more like a 5 but there aren't even ****ing keyboard controls that make sense on a ****ing PC release. Why in the holy **** name would You release a PC game that can only be played on a controller? Don't let the great graphics fool You, this game is mostly just dodging missiles and doing some ****ing wacky **** that would never pass in real life. It's so much worse than H.A.W.X isn't not even funny, in fact that's exactly what I have to go and play now because this game made my hungry for a good Air combat experience which Ace Combat is not able to satisfy. It's 2019 and this game still needs to cut to loading screen when You want to land. Why, just ****ing why. Also there are almost no checkpoints so a fail usually ends up in You reaping everything You just did for the next 30 minutes.

    I knew this wouldn't rise to it's hype and that would be ok but this is just disgraceful.    … Expand
  9. bearthor
    Feb 1, 2019
    0
    Until they support HOTAS joysticks (not just the two cheap ones from Thrustmaster). This game does not deserve a good score. When they patch in support for more HOTAS, i can reconsider.

    It's also a port from Xbox, so no mouse control in menus. No Ultra widescreen support.
  10. Azzameen
    Feb 1, 2019
    0
    Ce ne sera pas une critique très constructive de ma part, (avec une telle note, on pouvait s'y attendre) car je ne peux pas jouer à Ace Combat 7 en l'état. Pour ma part, les standards minimums ne sont pas respectés : bugs (légers, certes) de chargement, aucune prise en charge de joysticks (ah oui, pardon un modèle pris en charge, le Hotas 4 et son équivalent XBOX, fin de la liste), pour unCe ne sera pas une critique très constructive de ma part, (avec une telle note, on pouvait s'y attendre) car je ne peux pas jouer à Ace Combat 7 en l'état. Pour ma part, les standards minimums ne sont pas respectés : bugs (légers, certes) de chargement, aucune prise en charge de joysticks (ah oui, pardon un modèle pris en charge, le Hotas 4 et son équivalent XBOX, fin de la liste), pour un jeu de simulation de combat aérien, même très arcade, il fallait oser.

    En l'état, ces soucis ne sont pas bloquants. En pratique, je peux jouer à Ace Combat, mais je ne veux pas y jouer si les conditions ne sont pas réunies. Cela reste un jeu, je dois y prendre du plaisir. Nous sommes en 2019, pas dans les années 90, les joueurs PC ont maintenant des standards élevés et un choix de jeux considérables pour patienter, ce qui sera mon cas tant que Bandaï-Namco ne fera rien pour rectifier le tir.

    Pourquoi une note si faible, alors que j'aurais pu me contenter d'attendre les rectifications ? Pour jeter du sel, pardi. Il est inacceptable qu'une fois de plus, le standard soit revu à la baisse par un éditeur qui souhaite venir sur le marché PC avec des réglages et une programmation prévue exclusivement pour consoles. Non mais, la souris qui ne marche pas dans les menus, obligeant à se servir du clavier si on n'a pas de manette, c'est une plaisanterie ? Là, on ne joue plus la carte de la nostalgie, on voyage dans le temps !

    Si le choix de jeux est immense dans les collections PC, en revanche les simulations de combat aériens semblent passées de mode. C'est donc une double punition pour les amateurs du genre : peu fournis et mal fournis. Peu fournis parce qu'ils achèteront un matériel qui n'est pas donné (joystick, manette des gaz) et qui ne leur servira pratiquement jamais, prenant la poussière en attendant désespérément le prochain titre digne de les passer au chiffon microfibres ! Mal fournis parce que lorsque l'un des fleurons du genre arrive enfin, avec son lot de promesses, il leur rote au visage en expliquant que 1 : il ne prendra en charge que quelques modèles, donc achetez-les ou tant pis pour vous que et 2 : ce sont des modèles milieu voire bas de gamme, donc on s'en fiche si vous aviez investi dans quelques chose de mieux. On ne va quand même pas faire l'effort de rendre notre jeu agréable aux fans du genre, si ?

    Pour l'instant Bandaï-Namco n'a pas encore décidé de répondre officiellement aux nombreuses plaintes émises sur ces questions, ne confirmant ni n'infirmant que cela restera en l'état. La note Steam (30% de critiques positives, ouch) reflète la colère des amateurs du genre, il me semble que la note Metacritic doit en prendre un coup, elle aussi.    … Expand

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Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. CD-Action
    Dec 11, 2019
    70
    The newest Ace Combat is a good game overall and may be the prettiest and best sounding in the series but nearly all of the rest of its features are a step – or a few of them – back. [12/2019, p.56]
  2. Worth Playing
    Apr 11, 2019
    85
    The content is plentiful, replayability remains high, and the presentation easily makes Ace Combat 7 one of the better arcade-style flight games on the PC. It has been a long time coming, but action flight fans and those who love the series won't be disappointed by Ace Combat 7.
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  3. The Overpowered Noobs
    Feb 27, 2019
    70
    A great Ace Combat title that follows its past formula too closely, giving you the great flight simulator you expect and no more.
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