The player takes control of Mobius 1 in September 2004, a year after the conflict began, as one of the few ISAF pilots still remaining. The battleship Tanager, the flagship of the Aegir Fleet In 2003, the Federal Republic of Erusea seized the Stonehenge facility and turned it into an anti-aircraft weapon the Independent State Allied Forces (ISAF) attempted to destroy Stonehenge, but failed, and were forced to retreat from the Usean mainland to North Point, an island nation to the northeast. A large network of eight railguns, Stonehenge, was created to defend the continent from total destruction.

Five years prior, a large asteroid named Ulysses 1994XF04 made impact with the planet, killing many civilians and destabilizing the Usean continent. 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.

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