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Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies

PlayStation 2 • 2001

Should you play it?

What works

  • Engaging and emotional narrative
  • Varied and exciting mission design
  • Accessible yet skillful arcade-style flight controls
  • Wide selection of aircraft and weapons
  • Impressive graphics and soundtrack

Things to keep in mind

  • Repetitive score-chasing can reduce replayability
  • Limited multiplayer and cooperative features
  • Mission timers can feel restrictive
  • Some ai behavior is inconsistent
  • No modern re-release or digital availability

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN

  • Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - The Nextgen Edition

  • Battlestar Galactica Deadlock

  • Particle Fleet: Emergence

  • Overload

  • Warhammer 40,000: Dakka Squadron - Flyboyz Edition

More social

Games that feels like Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies but with more teamwork and cooperation

  • Nuclear Option

  • STAR WARS™ X-Wing vs TIE Fighter - Balance of Power Campaigns™

  • VTOL VR

  • Warplanes: WW1 Fighters

  • Freespace 2

  • House of the Dying Sun

Less status-driven

Games that feels like Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies but with less focus on status and recognition

  • Star Wolves

  • AquaNox

  • Nexus - The Jupiter Incident

  • Warplanes: WW1 Sky Aces

  • Comanche 4

  • AX:EL - Air XenoDawn

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies but with less leadership over others

  • Jet Lancer

  • STAR WARS™: Rogue Squadron 3D

  • BLUE REVOLVER

  • EVERSPACE™

  • Retro City Rampage™ DX

  • Strike Suit Zero

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Cooperation. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Cooperation, Fellowship.

Last update: 05/08/2026