English voice acting was planned and started recording in the early stages, but Namco cut the funding for the translation efforts. While nothing was changed from the overall gameplay, its campaign was stripped down to a 1-disc 36 mission campaign with no branching paths. It also featured fully voiced anime cut-scenes, along with in-game radio chatter.The international version of Ace Combat 3 was released in 2000. The Japanese version of Ace Combat 3 released in 1999 featured a lengthy 2-disc campaign of 52 missions that were split among different paths depending on in-mission decisions, along with multiple endings and multiple factions for the player to join. The third installment in the Ace Combat series of console flight simulation games, Electrosphere takes the contemporary setting of the first two games into a story set in the mid-21st century, involving a war between multinational corporations.The game is notable for having two radically different releases for the Japanese and Western markets.
Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere (エースコンバット3 エレクトロスフィア, Ēsu Conbatto San Erekutorosufia) is a flight simulation game made by Namco for the PlayStation game console.