


The games in the Jane's line were developed by several specialized development teams: Not only did the deal allow the use of the Jane's brand name, but also the inclusion of Jane's reference material within the games itself. EA licensed the name from Jane's Information Group, the publishing company famous for its military reference works. Two points on this: Ace Combat 7's DLC is the best thing about it, and Bandai Namco do a tie-in with the new Top Gun movie PLEASE.Jane's Combat Simulations Group Description Jane's Combat Simulations was a brand in use by Electronic Arts from 1996 to 2000 for their line of military simulations. As well as this, there will be two more paid DLCs coming at a later date.

And happily for fans, Ace Combat 7 has done the business: the celebration event included the news that it's now sold over 3 million copies, making it the most popular entry the series has had.Īs part of the 25th celebration, there's some free DLC coming to Ace Combat 7 on August 31st which will give all players some anniversary jet skins and classic tunes from the series.

I can't remember an enormous amount about the plot, but I do recall you're held responsible for killing the president and operate as a group of 'rogue' fighter aces, which is exactly the kind of story I want in an air combat game. Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation was released in 2007, after which Bandai Namco focused on spinoffs and a rather disastrous free-to-play entry.Īce Combat 7 was an unexpected and triumphant return to what had made the series great in the first place: fighter jets blowing each other up in ludicrously OTT scenarios. The first game in the series was Ace Combat, a Playstation launch title, and the series then had a rough release schedule of a new entry every two years until the PS3 / 360 generation.
