When you hear the name Tom Clancy, you think of his books first and then a very close second, the games that bear his name. The majority of his games, like the Rainbow Six collection are all about teamwork, stealth and tactics. The game I have for review today veers a bit off from the norm of his games, it’s called H.A.W.X. and it’s a flying game, not a flight simulator, more of an arcade style combat flight game. H.A.W.X. is set in the near future where corporations have basically replaced government run military in many countries, they’re mercenaries essentially.

H.A.W.X. places you in the shoes of an ex-military elite pilot who was recruited by one of these corporations to work for them as one of their pilots, fighting whoever, whenever you’re told to.


I don’t have any boxshots or anything for you, HAWX came bundled with the Thrustmaster T.1600M Joystick that I recently reviewed here, so it’s just a disc, and of course I played the game with the T.1600M as well.

Playing with the joystick is much more fun than using the mouse/keyboard combination, I think most any type of flying game is better with a joystick really though.

Specifications:

H.A.W.X.

ENHANCED REALITY SYSTEM (E.R.S.)
E.R.S. is in-game technology that helps turn novice aviators into elite pilots of the future. The Enhanced Reality System is the core of the HAWX flight experience: aircraft interception trajectories, incoming missile detection, anti-crash system, damage assessment, tactical map, and weapons trajectory control. E.R.S. also allows players to issue orders to their squadron and other units, making this system as iconic to HAWX as the Cross- Com system is to Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter!

ASSISTANCE MODE
Players can ease into their flight missions and gain a level of comfort with the use of the assistance mode. Once employed, players can take full advantage of their technological support through the E.R.S and gain maximum piloting security. If the situation calls for the player to unleash the full potential of the aircraft, the assistance mode can be switched off and all safety features will be deactivated. This comes with increased risks, but allows the player advanced dogfighting maneuvers and stunning third-person views.

REVOLUTIONARY MULTIPLAYER
For the first time ever in the air-combat genre, players will be able to experience the entire solo campaign with seamless JUMP IN/JUMP OUT functionality. In PVP mode, players can challenge each other in intense dog-fighting sessions and find out who’s the top gun. Winning players are rewarded with experience points and money to unlock more weapons.

REALISM AND TECHNOLOGY
Players have the opportunity to take the throttle of over 50 famous aircrafts, and take them over real world locations & cities in photo-realistic environments created with the best commercial satellite data on the civilian market.

HAWX also features a unique flying system that can be switched on or off called assistance. Assisted flying allows the computer to help control your plane, it won’t stall if you slow the engines to much basically, but it also won’t allow you to do more difficult and dangerous maneuvers, and sometimes doing them or not doing them can mean the difference between life or death. When you switch to assistance off mode the view changes to like a spectator view, or a view from a plane a bit farther off. In this mode you’re free to fly pretty much anyway you want to , and that includes quickly dying if you don’t have the hang of it. In this view though it almost looks real, like something you might see in a movie, almost, but not quite, though it is still a lot of fun to fly this way. One thing about the whole assistance off mode is that it’s really not needed at all, you can play the whole game, besides the training, without ever needing to use it. It would have been nice if the developers had incorporated it into the game a bit more, maybe missions where you have to fly with assistance off.



p/s : atre, kasi review skit game nih...

Game ni mmg best, selain dapat banyak license fighter available,
rasanya sebelum ni yg btol2 proper air combat game tuk PC yg decent ialah Red Jets.
Jadi mmg kudos tuk ubisoft tuk masuk ke dalam market nih memandangkan competition tak brapa kuat

Game play mmg best nak plak kalau guna game pad sama joystick!
Salah satu kekuatan game nih ialah kepada realism dan technology game ini kepada dunia sebenar.
lebih 50 jet ternama ada dalam game nih termasuklah dari US, Europe mahupun Russia.

Tambahan dengan lokasi sebenar dengan binaan virtual dan gambar satelit bandar besar seperti Rio, Chicago, Tokyo dan D.C

selain tu game ni ada 2 lagi ciri yg hebat iaitu Enhanced Reality System (ERS) dan Assistance.
ERS membolahkan kita jadik elite pilot dengan tak payah kne terajang dalam pilatus pon. ERS akan
membantu buat satu laluan atau route yang terbaik utk player ambil ketika dalam sesuatu situasi
contohnya mengelak dari peluru berpandu atau menembak sasaran yang sukar

Assistance mode pulak adalah untuk membantu "pilot" untuk "unleash the full potential of the aircraft"
manataknya dalam mode nih, pemain boleh buat macam jenis maneuvers dan benar membantu dalam dogfight!
tetapi kne biasa dlu, kalau tak biasa nanti jadi macam member aku.. muntah!

hehehe

terdapat 2 multiplayer mode dalam game nih, iaitu LAN dan Online.
Pemain boleh dogfight (anjin berlawan????) dengan member secara 1 on 1 atau Coop mahupun Team.

Mungkin salah satu kelemahan dia ialah selain mission pendek dan jalan cerita yg...... simple sangat kot!, kita tak boleh pilih ordinance yg kita mahu.
Kerana pemain hanya boleh pilih set2 senjata yang telah dia bagi.
Gambar2 satelit mmg cantik cuma bila kita cukup rendah kita nampak gambar tu agak flat. Selain takde satu benda yang mmg menjadi kemestian bagi penggila game genre begini iaitu "Take-Off" dan "Landing"


Sekianlah review noob dari saya!
tengkiu!

la....pak long ingatkan nama orang .... rupa2nya games .....

hehehe!
best game ni pak long, try la!

tom clancy's kan penulis buku fiksyen2 perang ni..tapi ada ke buku dia nama tom clancy's hawx ni?mcm penah nampak..or games version ajer..

Rasanya mesti dari salah satu buku dia.

Btw, sapa yg nak main online, tp tak boleh pasal ada kekangan (cd incik lanun)
boleh register dan download garena.

dengan garena client nih dia akan main guna LAN punya protocol!

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