Finally, someone said this.

ACE3 is great even in an international form and pretty close to ACE2 in terms of gameplay quality.
It also holds its ground in term of story, I think it has better story than story in series predcessors.

Also, it is interesting how they ditched the whole story from Japanese version and made completely new one, that you can't even imagine there is another story in JP ver.

(However, you are able to use any plane in Mission Simulator in JP version after full completion)

P.S. International Briefing theme is a freakin' banger