The third game in the Ace Combat series, released in 1999, and the last to have been developed for the original Play Station. The world is Strangereal, a not-Earth from the previous games that was first fleshed out in this installment. The year is 2040. In the past few decades, the national governments of Strangereal have decayed beyond repair and were replaced by a global rule of Mega Corps, chief among whom are General Resource Limited and Neucom Incorporated. Naturally, the two companies' competition for power is far from friendly, and the only thing standing between them and an all-out war is the Universal Peace Enforcement Organization. Further upsetting the fragile balance of power are the GR's latest Super Prototype, the Night Raven, and its groomed pilot, the sickly Rena Hirose; th