Overview
By 1997, game developers were beginning to experiment and take advantage of the CD-based storage medium of the Playstation. Amongst those game developers was the team developing Ace Combat 3. Spanning two CDs, Ace Combat 3 includes a branching storyline with 5 different endings. It was also the first Ace Combat game to include characters with extensive voice acting, and with it, more wingmen giving the series its trademark sense of camaraderie.
Unfortunately, due to development costs, most of these groundbreaking elements would be cut out of the international release of the game, cutting the game size down to one CD and opting for one singular path of the story, and the voice work and other characters all but removed. However, those efforts would not go unsung forever and would eventually be realized thanks to the efforts of Team NEMO, a fan translation team who translated and restored all the cut content for English-speaking audiences.
Missions
Mission 1: Transport
Expo City
Mission 2: Interference
Waiapolo Mts.
Mission 3: Joint Maneuvers
Chopinburg
Mission: 4 Megafloat
Rocky Is.
Mission 5: Scramble
Wiapolo Mts.
Mission 6: Target Acquisition
Expo City
Mission: 7 Fragile Cargo
Axel Bay
Mission 8: Demilitarization
Rocky Is.
Mission 9: Moonlight Flower
Scofields Plat.
Mission 10: Maze
Hatties Ra.
Mission 11: Escort
Mt. Lambert
Mission 12: Stratosphere
White Valley
Mission 13: Claustrophobia
Amber Mts.
Mission 14: Reaching For The Stars
Comona Is.
Mission 15: Guardian Angel
Comona Is.
Mission 16: Zero Gravity
Outer Space
Mission 17: One-Way Ticket
Sandbury Desert(?)
Mission 18: Bug Hunt
Chopinburg Forest
Mission 19: Blackbird
White Valley Air Base
Mission 20: Fjord
Petrol Coast
Mission 21: Counterterrorism
Megafloat
Mission 22: ECM
Expo City
Mission 23: Swarm
Megafloat
Mission 24: Damage Control
Port Edwards
Mission 25: Conspiracy
Expo City
Mission 26: Intercept
Eusian Ocean
Mission 27: Plumber
???
Mission 28: Pathfinder
Expo City
Mission 29: Ouroboros
Port Edwards
Mission 30: Search and Destroy
Megafloat
Mission 31: Tunnel Vision
???
Mission 32: Night Raven
???
Mission 33: Geofront Attack
Geofront
Mission 34: Aurora
Megafloat Ruins
Mission 35: Electrosphere
Megafloat Ruins/Electrosphere
Mission 36: Geopelia (Bonus mission)
Port Edwards
Aircraft
- F-15S/MT Eagle
- F-16XA Sakerfalcon
- F-16XF GyrFalcon
- F-22C Raptor II
- F/A-18I Hornet
- F/A-18V Hornet ADV
- F/A-32C Erne
- MiG-33 Fulcrum SS
- R-101 Delphinus I
- EF-2000E Typhoon II
- F-22C Raptor II
- R-102 Delphinus II
- R-103 Delphinus III
- R-201 Asterozoa
- R-211 Orcinus
- R-311 Remora
- R-352 Sepia
- RF-12A2 Blackbird II
- Su-37 Super Flanker
- Su-43 Berkut
- UI-4054 Aurora
- X-49 Night Raven
- XR-900 Geopelia
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