Ace Combat 8 is the series' highest-rated game in 25 years

Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve holds an 88 Metacritic score on PS5 and 89 on OpenCritic, the franchise's best since Ace Combat 04 in 2001. It hit a record 52,694 concurrent Steam players on October 3.

• 88 on Metacritic (PS5) and 89 on OpenCritic — best since 2001
• Peak of 52,694 concurrent Steam players on October 3
• Proprietary Cloudly cloud engine works alongside Unreal Engine 5
• Aircraft polygon counts up 6x, textures upgraded from 1K to 4K