Modern air combat focused gameplayĪce Combat has never been accused of being realistic. To me, that indicates that the series combination of modern air combat and fast action gameplay still has plenty of appeal and yet another sign that interest may be growing again in flying games and simulations in general. The most recent title, Ace Combat 7, has sold more than 2.5 million – the best showing since the series began.

Nearly all of Ace Combat’s titles have been also been commercial successes.

This arrangement began with Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies and has continued on to the modern day. Eight mainline titles have been released plus a series of spin-off titles over the years on multiple platforms including Playstation, PS3, Xbox 360 and most recently – on PC.įor much of Ace Combat’s history, it has been developed by a group called ‘Project Aces,’ a development group in Bandai-Namco’s internal studio. The series would see a sequel just two years later and follow-on titles every few years after that. For the time it also had some impressive graphics and sound that captured plenty of attention.

Both the track's title and the way the rapper sings the last 4 lines is a direct reference to a Three 6 Mafia single named Stay Fly.Ace Combat or ‘Air Combat’ as it was originally titled in North America, was a 1995 Playstation launch title that featured fast paced air combat gameplay.

However, the two deviate at around the 2:09 mark while Fighter speeds up a little for its thrashing guitar solo, Gotta Stay Fly keeps the speed and the choir starts singing the game's main theme.

'Fighter', in the same soundtrack and disc, is an instrumental version of this song.

Get ready for this raid because we are ready to attack This mission is the vision, so just listen, listen My boys be comin' for ya from the left and from the rightĪchieving every victory written down in history It is featured as the first track that plays during the credits.Īin't no hiding from us in this big blue sky It is the first rap song related to an Ace Combat game, and is considered to be one of the main themes of the game. Gotta Stay Fly is the 13th track of Disc 3 of the Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Original Soundtrack.

Buy ace combat 7 soundtrack