HAWX,,,RAWX?

[Sledgehammer427]

has anyone played this game?
i know this forum is full of old-school fighter jocks...but still..i want to buy it and i want to know if anyone here tried it yet

[Fincuan]

Well, it does say Helosim and flight sims in the forum name, so probably not many HAWX fans here :D

[Sledgehammer427]

haha, true, from what ive read elsewhere its arcadey

[Dowly]

I've been eyeballing it, used to play Ace Combat on PS1, was arcade but fun as heck. :yeah:

[Dimitrius07]

Hello Sledgehammer427

As far as i understood (by reading other players opinions on boards) thise is a arcade, and not a bad one. In any case i will look in my local game store for it, and after that i will give my opinion. Cheers :salute:

[Seeadler]

I rented a copy over the weekend from my local video store. It's a good looking game and I play arcade games aswell but this one held me only two hours to play.

Enemys are small markings and I must attack them first before they draw attention on me. For a jetfighter-game, it gives me no feeling of speed, unlike for example the jetplanes in Battlefield2. The potential for this game has not been exhausted, it would have be done more, even for a arcade game. So for me it is just a dull shooter game in a beautiful dress, not worth the money to buy me a copy.

[Sledgehammer427]

I've been eyeballing it, used to play Ace Combat on PS1, was arcade but fun as heck. :yeah:


Me and my best friend play Ace Combat 3-0 (still have to play 6) and we actually have a little friendly competition...i say the Falken is better, and he likes the eurofighter, so we both dogfight each other. haha.
but i just thought it was a little like Ace Combat, not CFS or IL2 with modern military jets (theres over 50 liscensed planes in HAWX)

[Oberon]

I think this is probably a flight game for the consoles more than anything, although that's not necessarily a bad thing, I'm a big fan of the Ace Combat series, loved Five and Zero because what they lacked in sim, they made up for in story and characters. :salute:

RIP Chopper :wah:

[Raptor1]

Well, arcade flight games can be rather enjoyable if done correctly. Crimson Skies, for example, was highly arcadish but more than made up for it

Either way, I have yet to try this one, might do...somewhen

[ajrimmer42]

Ace Combat ftw!

I tried the HAWX demo a few weeks ago and I thought it really sucked, even for an arcade game it was bad. That stupid view change thing is just pointless, the gfx aren't that good, it's horrible to play and the most arcadey game I think I've ever seen. It's a big :down: from me. I was looking forward to a decent new jet game, but this aint it.

[Dowly]

Crimson Skies, for example, was highly arcadish but more than made up for it

Ah, the game that got me into trying doing stunts.:yeah: Too bad it doesnt work on my current machine. :wah:

[HunterICX]

Ah, the game that got me into trying doing stunts.:yeah: Too bad it doesnt work on my current machine. :wah:

Same here, CS doesn't work on my current machine :(

HunterICX

[Dowly]

Here's what Yahtzee thinks about it:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/689-Tom-Clancys-H-A-W-X

[Arclight]

HAWX is based on Ace Combat. It's an arcade version of those games...

Once you get your head around that statement, you'll understand how I feel about HAWX. :D

At least with Ace Combat, a f-117 would handle differently from an f-15. With HAWX it's all the same. :nope:

[Dowly]

Same here, CS doesn't work on my current machine :(

HunterICX

Aye, farking sucks! I mean, I it starts and all, but all the meny texts and every other texts in armory etc. are messed. I can get to the game, but not point in it if I cant use the loadout screen etc.

[Dowly]

HAWX is based on Ace Combat. It's an arcade version of those games...

Once you get your head around that statement, you'll understand how I feel about HAWX. :D

At least with Ace Combat, a f-117 would handle differently from an f-15. With HAWX it's all the same. :nope:

Umm.. how can ANYTHING be more arcade than Ace Combat? I havent played the few newest ones' but I did play the older ones and the only difference between the planes were hoe much damage your missiles and guns do. Sure, there was the stability etc. stuff, but it was all the same even if one play had -600 stability and the other +99999999, it was 100% the same.

HAWX, I have mixed feelings about it. I've heard alot of good about it, and heck, pretty much every review gives it ok or good rating (not counting the ones who run and scream how it isnt realistic. WELL IT NEVER WAS SUPPOSED TO BE YOU TITS!)

Prolly going to get this one later on, like Battlefield Heroes showed me today: an arcade game can be great fun.

[Arclight]

Umm.. how can ANYTHING be more arcade than Ace Combat?That's the whole point. :rotfl:

It really is. Like that "evasion" mode (turn of assists): view pops to chase cam and the plane magically becomes ultra maneuvrable. Don't ask me how, and I know the aim is not realism, but they made an arcade version of Ace. :yep:

[XabbaRus]

Crimson Skies works on my XP machine...a couple of crashes but still works.

I loved that game.

[danlisa]

HAWX is a good game, if you accept it for what it is.

A console designed arcade game primarily geared towards MP. In that it plays very well. True, the AI in the SP is lame, the views are hard to get used to when playing with the external on but lock yourself to a cockpit only and it's a whole different game.

However, Hawx is the first step towards a combined warfare universe that's currently in development from UBI/Tom Clancy. Land, Air and Sea warfare based individual games being played together in a MMO. Imagine that, 256 online players per server, either on foot, vehicle, ship or aircraft.:D

[Raptor1]

Crimson Skies works on my XP machine...a couple of crashes but still works.

I loved that game.

It doesn't work with newer video cards unless you run it in ugly software graphics mode, which is a shame, because the game is awesome

I wish somebody would come up with a fix for that somewhen...

[Dowly]

Well, I decided to risk it and bought the game and what ya know, it's great fun! :yeah: Kinda obvious it's gotten it's influence from Ace Combat as it's pretty much 100% clone of it. You fight back ridiculous amounts of ground and air units, you can carry tons of missiles and bombs, you rank up and you get new planes and weapons systems. Oh and you remember how Ace Combat had those old(ish) planes in it? Like F4 Phantom, Mig21 Fishbed, A6 intruder etc. etc. well so does HAWX. :D

And like most Ubi's games, it looks good and runs perfectly smooth! Especially the terrain looks very nice as it's all made out of satellite images (AFAIK).

Right, back to the skies! :salute:

EDIT: Ow and it also has replay option ála Ace Combat.

[Falkirion]

Yeah but Hawx's replay option is inferior to AC. And by inferior I mean really inferior. Its like the last 2 or 3 minutes of the mission you just flew. At least AC lets you view the whole thing.

Still I enjoyed Hawx, a friend of mine got me hooked on it at a LAN I went to not all that long ago. Now if only Ubi had've made exp gains from shooting down fighters higher I'd be set. Want my Su-35 and 37 now, not at ranks in the 30s which I'll never reach because I refuse to play online (Xbox live that is, I bought the 360 version)