Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War
The sixth installment in the Ace Combat series explores the Belkan War, a devastating conflict alluded to in Ace Combat 5. In the game's main story mode, the player takes control of a mercenary pilot, callsign…
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War is a shooter developed by Project Aces, released 23 March 2006 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 7.5 hrs to finish.
What Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War is
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War is a shooter game developed by Project Aces and released in 2006. It was published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War is a 2006 combat flight simulation video game developed and published by Namco for the PlayStation 2. Part of the Ace Combat series, the Japanese version of the game was the last title to be released by Namco, and the North American version being the first game to be released by the newly formed Namco Bandai Games. Set in the Ace Combat series' fictional universe of Strangereal, the game's story takes place before the events of most other entries in the series, and follows the actions of "Galm Team", a mercenary fighter squadron led by the player character "Cipher", as they fight to repel an enemy invasion during the titular Belkan War, a World War II-esque…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and warfare. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Ace Combat series
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War is the fourth of 13 entries we hold in the Ace Combat series. It arrived a year after Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War. The next entry was Ace Combat: Assault Horizon in 2011. Its critic score of 75 is 2 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve at 91.
How it was received
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 7.5 hrs.
What it launched against
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War launched on 23 March 2006, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II and Daxter. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Daxter.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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