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''Ace Combat'' (''AC''; エースコンバット; ''Ēsu Konbatto'') is a hybrid flight simulation action video game series featuring 18 games published by the Japanese company Namco Bandai Games and produced by Project Aces, an internal development team. The series emphasizes fast-paced action and dramatic plots, and has established itself as one of the most successful arcade flight action franchises. Most games of the series take place in the same fictionalized world populated with fictional countries with details loosely based on real-life location, events, and wars. One of the main selling points of the series is the ability to pilot a range of aircraft that include accurate or slightly modified representations of present-day military aircraft, prototypes that never saw actual battle, and completely fictional boss-type superweapons. Longtime fans of the series are rewarded with small hints of the continuity between the games, as some characters and events are referenced from one game to another. The first three titles in the series were released on the Sony PlayStation system (''Air Combat'' also known as ''Ace Combat'' in Japan, ''Ace Combat 2'' and ''Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere)''. Three subsequent titles were released on the PlayStation 2, (''Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies'', ''Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War'' and ''Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War''). Two titles were released on the PlayStation Portable system (''Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception'' and ''Ace Combat: Joint Assault''). One title was released on the Xbox 360, ''Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation''. ''Ace Combat Xi: Skies of Incursion'' was released on the Apple iOS in 2009. ''Ace Combat: Assault Horizon'' was later released on both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 systems. Namco Bandai later revealed working on a new Ace Combat title for the Nintendo 3DS, which revealed to be ''Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy''. In 2013, they revealed ''Ace Combat Infinity'', the first free-to-play title in the series, which was released in 2014 exclusive to the PlayStation 3. ==Setting== With the exception of ''Ace Combat: Joint Assault'', ''Ace Combat: Assault Horizon'', and ''Ace Combat Infinity'' (all set in the real world), the franchise takes place in an Earth-like world dubbed ''Strangereal'', with different geography and countries. The planet is also located in the same solar system as the real-life Earth, with the same Sun, Moon, and apparently constellations; one particular constellation, Crux, plays a major role in the plot of ''Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception''. The only geographical similarities between Strangereal and the real-life Earth is that Antarctica covers the planet's South Pole, an archipelago shaped like New Zealand is near it, and there exists a Greenland-shaped country in the north aside which appears to be a part of Northern Canada. Strangereal also contains scattered and/or distorted Earth landmasses, such as a distorted Mediterranean near the equator, and Svalbard and Britain-like islands in the north. The longitude reading for the planet is based on a 360-degree system which is oriented west. There are four major landmasses in Strangereal where most ''Ace Combat'' games are set and are separated by several major oceans and large seas, called Osea, Anea, Verusea, and Usea. ''Air Combat'' (after retconning), ''Ace Combat 2'', ''Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere'', and ''Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies'' are all set in Usea. ''Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation'' takes place in Anea, just north of Verusea. ''Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War'' reveals the entire Strangereal world map for the first time, with its major combatants, the Osean Federation and the Union of Yuktobanian Republics, facing each other across the Ceres Ocean. The Atlantic Ocean is the largest ocean, touching Osea, Usea, and Verusa. The Cascade Ocean is the second largest ocean, touching Osea, Anea, and Verusa. The Arctic Ocean covers the North Pole, and the Pacific Ocean lies below the Ceres Ocean. A main historic event that takes place in Strangereal is the fall of the large "Ulysses 1994XF04" asteroid. Its discovery in 1994 led to the creation of various superweapons to remove the threat of mass extinction of humans. Only one weapon, "Stonehenge", was completed and operational in time to destroy the asteroid by its arrival in 1999, but the asteroid's fragments spread out across the planet for sheer damage and loss of life. The asteroid is a main catalyst for the events of Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies and Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ace Combat」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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