Ace Fight model director Kazutoki Kono just lately talked to INVEN concerning the franchise’s newest entry, Ace Fight 8: Wings of Theve, throughout a Bilibili First Look occasion held in Shanghai. Apart from revealing a brand-new playable stealth fighter jet set to seem within the recreation – the fictional “FA-36 Recreation” – Kono additionally touched on what gamers can anticipate from the newest entry by way of scale.
In response to the director, AC8’s marketing campaign will boast the very best quantity of content material within the sequence’ historical past. In some ways, it should exceed even the unique Japanese model of Ace Fight 3: Electrosphere. To not be confused with the closely abridged worldwide model, the home Ace Fight 3 boasted an ambitiously advanced storyline with 52 missions, a number of endings, and quite a few cutscenes packaged into two CDs.
Ace Fight 8, nevertheless, will outnumber Electrosphere relating to marketing campaign missions, cinematics, and different content material, in keeping with Kono. Whereas it tells a linear story not like Ace Fight 3, Kono is assured the brand new entry will deliver “the biggest marketing campaign within the historical past of the sequence.”
Impartial of Ace Fight 8’s marketing campaign is the web mode, which can supply a number of forms of co-op alongside particular missions and limited-time PvP and PvE. Kono remarks that this a part of the sport will primarily be run as a dwell service, which implies the staff will “naturally take into account creating extra content material” if gamers present curiosity for it post-launch.
Ace Fight 8: Wings of Theve is scheduled to launch on October 2 for PC (Steam), PS5, and Xbox Sequence X❘S.