I bought this game for the PS2 quite a while ago, but I was stuck on a mission that I couldn’t beat. Finally, though, I got to beat that mission over the last couple days of summer vacation, and go ALL THE WAY to beat the game! It turns out that was one of the easy missions of the game. Mission 27, “Aces”, in my opinion, was the HARDEST (you had to maneuver your aircraft through a tunnel and two very low arches inside the tunnel, and the mission was really long so whenever you lost, you had to start at the very beginning).
I loved the storyline, though. It was very creative, and seemed very real, like a movie (or even real life). In the beginning, an unidentified aircraft is found and shot down within Osean (a fictional country) boundaries, and it turns out that the aircraft was from Yuktobania (also a fictional country). Then, Osea is attacked by Yuktobanion forces and the war is started. You are a character by the name of Blaze, part of Wardog Squadron (including Captain Kei Nagase– a woman, Captain Alvin H. Davenport, and Grimm– I don’t know his full name). Over time, you gain respect of the Osean army and are elevated to higher and higher ranks. Pretty soon, you’re the core of the army itself, and you become the official escorts of the President himself. You come across two major, huge, and hard to defeat submarines of Yuktobania, the Hrimfaxi and Scinfaxi, and defeat them. There is a legend of a monster named the Razgriz, that it was a demon that comes to destroy the world when history witnesses a great change, comes into a long period of slumber, and then comes back as a great hero. Soon enough, Wardog Squadron is nicknamed “Razgriz” because of its awesome reputation (I love that part 
). In the end, it turns out Yuktobania was not the one that started the war after all— it was Belka, and its ace pilots. You come to face them over time, and you have to escape from and actually defeat them sometimes. In mission 27, Yuktobania and Osean fleets join forces after a meaningful speech by President Harling of Osea and the Prime Minister Nikanor of Yuktobania, and come together to defeat the great Belkan Aces. There was one other important part in the storyline, but if I gave that out, it would be a real spoiler for everyone .
