Two Stonehenge railguns preparing to fireĪce Combat 04 takes place in 2004 on Strangereal's Earth. It was also the most successful Ace Combat game for two decades-reaching over 2,640,000 sales by 2008 -until Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown surpassed it in 2021. A parallel narrative-told between missions by a man recounting his time as a child during the war-relates the story of Yellow 13, the leader of Erusea's Yellow Squadron and Mobius 1's arch-nemesis.Īce Combat 04: Shattered Skies is the most critically-acclaimed installment of the series, scoring an average of 89 on Metacritic. The game's single-player campaign follows Mobius 1, a legendary ace who almost single-handedly turned the tide of the Continental War. It was released on Septemin Japan Novemin North America and Februin Europe.
And in turn, how that cannon brought war upon us." ― Side Story Narrator, Interlude #01Īce Combat 04: Shattered Skies, published in Europe as Ace Combat: Distant Thunder, is the fourth video game in the Ace Combat franchise and the first to release on the PlayStation 2. But I remember how they built a cannon to destroy them.
"I was just a child when the stars fell from the skies.