Ace Combat: Squadron Leader

Yuktobanian and Osean forces launching a joint attack against their common enemy, but weather doesn't go to anyone's advantage

Your carrier is definitely going down after this hit

Enemy fleet in sight, but they have a carrier as well and can scramble fighters in the air

Taking off of a cruiser

Enemy fleet ready to make a stand

Enemy sub destroyed... F/A-18 is well balanced craft for air as well as ground attacks

Somewhere over arctic, flying at low altitude to avoid enemy radars

Taking the fuel in mid-air

Checking the back view to see enemy plane in flames

Enemy supply plane destroyed

Multiple targets in sight... enemy's jamming our sensors, most of the targets are bogeys so you have to rely on plain eye-sight

Don't change direction too quickly if your squad is flying in formation as collision can be quite deadly

The weather is cloudy and visibility is pretty bad... in such cases radar becomes a really precious item

Taking off and landing sequences can be skipped (would really be sad if you crash after an extensive mission because of your bad landing ;)

When you reach the status of squadron leader, you'll select a plane for you and each of your wingmen

Escorting a plane through a friendly area with lots of SAM sites, one took out their radar, hence your helping

Beside 1st and 3rd person view, there is also a cockpit view to add a feeling of actually being inside the plane

Flying in first-person perspective... clear and sunny day always helps to spot an enemy from afar

You can rotate and zoom camera during showcase to admire the details and similarity with real models

After first couple of missions, you'll be able to buy newer and better planes

Firing missiles at unmanned recon crafts... no casualties at least

You can rotate camera in-flight to get better perspective of your surroundings

After each mission you can watch replay from various camera angles

You can follow the missile camera when firing at enemy fighters... this one evaded both of my missiles, though

Approaching the unidentified craft (looks like Blackbird to me, though), but orders are just to force it to land not to shoot at it

First mission... your squad is scrambled to intercept an unidentified craft off the coast

Kei Nagase, one of the few survivors of the 108th squadron, soon to be your most precious wingman

Scenes from the Belkan war that happened 15 years ago, a short premise to the story