

Reaper, who is unaware of Cohen's role, joins fellow Bone Arrow pilot Omega in shutting down a UAV attack in Tokyo. Kacper Cohen, the lead weapons developer at Wernher Noah, becomes disillusioned with the United Nations and their handling of world affairs and begins attacking UN forces with the assistance of the terrorist organization, the Sons of Troia. Reaper is assigned to the Bone Arrow Squadron. The player, Reaper, is one of these mercenary pilots who joins the private military corporation Arrows Air Defense and Security (under United Nations command) in 2019. Refugee zones were set up, and over the 20 years since the Ulysses Disaster, Wernher Noah made advancements in producing aircraft, opening the doors for many pilots to become mercenaries.

ĭuring the subsequent economic and societal chaos, a defense contractor, Wernher and Noah Enterprises, stepped in to assist the world's nations in rebuilding. Many meteors impacted the Earth, and while the Stonehenge networks prevented an extinction event, the loss of life and infrastructure was still devastating. In order to defend the planet, the world's nations banded together to create six anti-air railgun networks, named Stonehenge, that would engage the meteors. In the late 1990s, a large group of meteors began to approach Earth. Main article: Ulysses Disaster, Sons of Troia insurgency, USEAn War, or Operation Eternal Liberation On December 8, 2017, it was announced that Infinity would be shut down on March 31, 2018. Its success is believed to be a contributing factor to the development of Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown. Despite mediocre critic reviews, Infinity has been very successful with fans, and remained online for three years. The game also reused the same engine and many assets from Ace Combat: Assault Horizon.īandai Namco held three public betas prior to the game's launch. However, the game's plot mirrors many elements of previous Strangereal-based games, especially Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies.

Infinity is the third Ace Combat game to explicitly take place within our universe rather than the Strangereal universe. It was officially released in May 2014 exclusive to the PlayStation 3. Infinity was the first free-to-play game in the series, with a heavy focus on online cooperative multiplayer missions. Kosuke Itomi Yuta Hamanaka Ace Combat Infinity ( エースコンバット インフィニティ Ēsu Konbatto Infiniti) was the 16th entry in the Ace Combat series.
