Tom Clancy's HAWX Comments by Richard Leadbetter
Winging it.
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The unassisted 3rd person view is alot more easier to use set to normal rather than advanced. Set to normal for example, pressing pressing the stick left, will simply make you plane turn left rather than barrel roll on itself.
That depends - personally, the simplified controls drove me mad, but I had no trouble with the expert ones. Much easier for me if the controls in the cockpit and from the external cam view are the same. I ended up flying down instead of to the left becasue I kept doing a roll to the left and then pulled the stick down to make the turn. |
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superjag86
05/03/09 @ 16:59
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I had a lot of fun with the demo and nothing in this review hasl put me off picking it up in the future. At the moment I have too many great games to get through!
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I just died on the second mission - on the lowest difficulty. As if that wasn't embarrassing enough it happened when I nose dived straight into the ground while I was trying to blow up an otherwise pretty harmless tank :p.
Aside from my incompetence it's looking like it might be a pretty decent game. I really enjoyed Ace Combat 6 (aside from the horrible dialogue and storyline), and so far this has a very similar feel to it. |
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Artemis_Matsas
05/03/09 @ 22:45
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@rauper
I really don't mean to be a prick, but i'm starting to see some patterns to the timing of the release of some reviews. I hope that i'm being paranoid here. |
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beastmaster
05/03/09 @ 22:56
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You know what to do next? Make a game called Firefox and have it thought controlled.
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NegativeZero
06/03/09 @ 01:43
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I don't think Ace Combat fans will love it. I think they'll play it, but they'll quickly see it for what it is: a competent but ultimately nowhere near as good knockoff.
At least it's better than Heatseeker. |
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IneptPercy
06/03/09 @ 02:11
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The end of the day I am not expecting another ace combat, but there isn't enough decent flying games so this is welcome to me, just waiting for the PC version.
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metalangel
06/03/09 @ 12:53
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Forcing you towards an external view + no landings = fail. Ace Combat was great: good cockpit views, decent enough aircraft selection (apart from only one Russian plane), and doing a frontline landing to rearm in the middle of a battle was incredibly exciting... some of the approaches I made to avoid getting smoked were ridiculous.
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michaelius
06/03/09 @ 16:16
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I tried demo - view from cockpit - cool, view from outside - meh , not interested in this game
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"Forcing you towards an external view"
Choose expert controls and you can pull of the same maneuvers in first person/cockpit view as you can in the odd, external "assistance off" view. Or so the rumor goes anyway - I forgot to give it a try on the two missions I played earlier today (I'm through to first eight in total), but I will later. So far I'm enjoying the game and I find it very similar to AC6 in terms of controls, target selection/cycling, multi-target air-to-air missiles etc. I can't really say anything about differences in difficulty level, because I'm a wuss so I'm playing it through on the easiest level first :).
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The Clancy franchise should be synonymous with tactical depth and intelligent gaming, but here the gameplay feels homogenised and dumbed down.
That's really the whole Clancy franchise now, sadly. In an effort to create a broad appeal for these games, they're losing what made them so exciting in the first place. I was really hoping that this would be a bit of a spiritual successor to Strike Commander (perhaps with a dash of Clancy-esque conspiracy terrorism nonsense), but it seems to be more like a super-shiny Afterburner than anything else... |
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Huge selection of planes i am satisfied :P Very nice feeling when you fly as well but i cannot feel the boost of mach 2... :P
One problem only...it feels that blazing angels swoww2 and tom clancy's hawx have something similar..THE BLOODY MISIION WITH THE EMP!!!!!!! was it really necesarry???????????????????????????? |
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