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Revenants , Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. It's called Top Gun and it has more man material than anything you'll find on Cinemax. Luckily that very same flick is home to some of the coolest aerial battles ever set to the silver screen. What's the one thing that enters the consciousness of every warm-blooded American when you mention dogfighting fighter jets? If the answer isn't a movie starring a bunch of sweaty dudes playing beach volleyball in tiny jean shorts with Anthony Edwards wearing a painfully awkward cutoff t-shirt, then you're lying to yourself. In Tom Clancys EndWar, youll have the chance to command near-future armies in real-time tactical battles during World War III, with the option to control your forces with voice. Tom Clancys EndWar and Tom Clancys HAWX, originally released for Xbox 360 in 20, respectively, are now playable on Microsofts current-gen console.
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The latest game to try its hand is Tom Clancy's HAWX from the Ubisoft Romania studio that brought us two Blazing Angels titles. Ever since then game companies have been trying to emulate the feeling that so many imagined with Goose and Maverick in the cockpit. One of which is the H.A.W.X series which provided a rather simplistic and bare bones flight situation title without any of the bells. While a certain rainbow variant has brought a great deal of success for the series, other games haven’t had the same level of acclaim.
So why are you zooming around turning enemy aircraft into mangled metal? Well, it turns out there's a bit of a conflict going on in the world. It feels more like you're flying an airliner than a fighter jet going faster than the speed of sound. Even getting close to the ground isn't all that inspiring. They look like their real life counterparts, but you can essentially fling them around the sky with reckless abandon, regardless of make or model.Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X is an arcade flight video game developed by Ubisoft Bucharest and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and by Gameloft for BlackBerry PlayBook, iOS, Palm Pre, Android and Symbian3. Flying low to the ground can reveal some nasty texture work, but it's still cool to be defending these famous cities from an off-shore assault. Flying above locations such as a pitch black Los Angeles, Washington DC, Cape Canaveral and Tokyo, players will see some recognizable spots. Before you know it Crenshaw is fighting for the red white and blue again, trying to repel the attacks by Artemis over some of our nation's landmarks. Then Artemis decides to attack the USA Crenshaw revolts. Long story short, Crenshaw works for Artemis, Artemis gets contracted to protect Brazil Crenshaw follows. Looking for work and money, Crenshaw turns to private military groups and stumbles upon a company called Artemis. You can tell them to attack or cover you, but that's about it. For the sake of fun, I'd recommend hitting up a friend to be your wingman (or, as Iceman would say, you can be his) as the AI and your control over their actions is very limited. There are 19 missions to fly throughout the campaign, all of which are available for four-player cooperative play online. The stars are obviously the planes themselves, but hats off for at least attempting to make an engrossing storyline and tying in a few other Ubisoft franchises (Ghost Recon and EndWar) along the way. It plays like a pseudo-mini-game as you have to pilot your jet through each gate to keep the pathway active. Aiding in the mindless gameplay is the ERS (Enhanced Reality System) which, when activated, puts up a series of gates that will lead you to your target. I wasn't worried about taking down minions before working towards a larger warship, instead there's just a bunch of flies swarming in the air for you to swat one at a time in any order you choose. Too often I found myself just trying to fire missiles and cycle through targets as fast as possible so as to not have to make another pass. The camera angle (known simply as "assistance off") is a good attempt at spicing things up and adding skill to dogfighting, but even playing through the game on hard didn't force me into flipping assistance off for the sake of strategy. The best way to dodge a missile is just thrashing around in random circles and twists. Every craft has a set turning radius depending on speed, but from there you can frenetically whip your scrap of metal through the air however you want. As I said before, there are no true physical constraints on the planes. It takes drama out of the dogfighting, which is something that it's lacking as it is. The experience was much more fun with the flight stick that I used for the Xbox 360 version of HAWX. I'd recommend playing with the flight stick if you have one. One important thing to note is that I played through HAWX with the Xbox 360 controller but the game does support PC flight sticks. As it is everything is pretty mindless, ERS on or off. I'd have preferred to have some sort of physical limitations on my craft so I had to strategically plan a route to safe ground. It dumbs the experience down quite a bit. One word of advice, never use the ERS unless absolutely necessary. The combat might not be all that inspired, but it's engaging enough to push you through the campaign one mission at a time. There's only one mode where eight players can join up and take on the usual team deathmatch affair. Multiplayer, as it is right now, is pretty barebones. I think I would have preferred a spending system that let me unlock items from a set list however I wanted, but the auto-unlock system that's in place works well enough. Little challenge acknowledgements pop up when you kill X amount of enemies with a given weapon and you'll get a nice sense of accomplishment every time you're rewarded with a hunk of XP for the time you've put in. You'll unlock things like planes and weapon packs that can be taken into battle. The sights and sounds of HAWX do a good job of creating a world that is clearly within the universe of other Tom Clancy games, while still inventing an identity for High Altitude Warfare. At least, no more than I saw in solo play. Granted we here in the IGN office play on a T1 line, I saw no evidence of lag or dropping frames. Things like an EMP strike that sends all enemy planes into a stall or the ability to limit all baddies to guns is definitely cool and can change the tide of a battle very quickly. The music pumps through and while not up to Hans Zimmer quality, it's still solid. Sound-wise HAWX performs a bit better. They're accurately modeled to a T and you'll spot things like Tokyo Disney on the ground, but it looks a bit too much like they took a satellite picture and wrapped it around objects. Likewise, the ground level in all of these major metropolises across the country is pretty barren. There's no scoring, no battle scars no real signs of life on the outside of the aircraft. The exterior of the planes have all the right angles and parts, but they seem a little lifeless.
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