Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War: Difference between revisions

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In this, the seventh game in the ''[[Ace Combat]]'' series (released in 2006) , a journalist from the Osean Federation, in the world of Strangereal, named Brett Thompson films a documentary on the history of the Belkan War, which was alluded to in [[Ace Combat 5 The Unsung War|the previous game]]. In 1995, the Belkan Federation began an invasion of the autonomous Republic of Ustio, hoping to reclaim the resource-rich territory that had once been theirs. 90% of Ustio's air force was destroyed in the opening days of the war and as they were overrun, Belka turned its attention towards the Osean Federation, the Union of Yuktobanian Republics and their allies. Unamused, the allied nations sided with Ustio and delivered a smackdown of national proportions and everyone lived happily ever after, right? Well...

* [[Hundred-Percent Completion]]: Gives you a few cosmetic bonuses.

* [[Insult Backfire]]: An amusing conversation between Pixy and PJ:

'''PJ''': Uh, Roger, leave it to me. }}

** Even funnier if you're playing Knight: PJ ''cheerfully agrees'' with Pixy's "order."

* [[Kick the Dog]]: One mission has you assisting Allied bombers destroying a Belkan munitions facility, but they make it known right from the start that they're prioritizing destruction over accuracy.

** The bombers' radio chatter is borderline [[Axe Crazy]] as well:

** It's not just a munitions facility - it's an ''entire city.'' And the Allied forces aren't the only ones kicking the dog - Belkan forces are ''committing arson'' to many buildings - some of them privately owned - on their way out.

* [[King Arthur]]: ''Ace Combat Zero'' is so positively rich with Arthurian motifs. Notable ones included names like the "Hydrian Line" as a defended area and "The Round Table" as a nickname for a famous battlefield. Also present are the Excalibur laser tower (complete with a comment from a soldier after its destruction that "the sword has been pulled from the stone") and fighter pilots with names like Joshua "Lucan" Bristow and Anthony "Bedivere" Palmer. Furthermore, members of A World With No Boundaries begin to refer to {{spoiler|Pixy}} as their "King" and note that he has departed for "Avalon", actually a code name for a weapons lab hidden under an artificial lake, and at the end of the game the last boss fights you in a plane called the ADFX-02 "Morgan" and the mastermind behind A World With No Boundaries delivers his final speech from prison where he is serving his life sentence for war crimes, much like Merlin locked in his stone tower (appropriate for the leader of a squadron named "Wizard").

* [[NGO Superpower]]: In {{spoiler|the second part of ''Zero''}} they are a mishmash of disgruntled former soldiers, but all have some mix of [[Weapons of Mass Destruction]], [[Airborne Aircraft Carrier|Airborne Aircraft Carriers]]/supermassive bombers and entire units of conventional forces.

* [[Not So Different]]:

* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: ''Zero'' masterfully uses a Type 2 situation in the {{spoiler|Stage of Apocalypse}} mission.

* [[Number of the Beast]]: Galm Team is the Ustio 6th Air Division, 66th Squadron. Demon Lord indeed.

* [[Oh Crap]]: Happens in the mission briefing for the Hresvelgr mission:

* [[Old Save Bonus]]: You can unlock the X-02 Wyvern and ADF-01 FALKEN superfighters more easily if you have save data from ''[[Ace Combat 04 Shattered Skies|Shattered Skies]]'' and/or ''[[Ace Combat 5 The Unsung War|Unsung War]]'', respectively. Players with save data from both games need only complete Mission 1 to unlock ''both'' superfighters for purchase.

* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: ''"Zero"''.

* [[One-Man Army|One Man Airforce]]:

* [[One World Order]]: Joshua Bristow and {{spoiler|Pixy}} want to see this happen.

* [[Peace Conference]]: According to the Narrator in ''Zero'', was a peace conference held in Lumen, a city on the border between Belka and Osea, to end the Belkan War.