Ubisoft today announced that the demo for Tom Clancy's HAWX will be released this week on Playstation 3 (Thursday) and Xbox 360 (Wednesday). The PC demo will be available on the 26th, while the game is released on March 6th on consoles and 13th on PC. A couple of images were released together with a new trailer, available inside.
Ubisoft press release:
Today Ubisoft announces that an official Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X™ demo will be available for download for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft on Xbox LIVE® online entertainment network beginning on February 11, 2009 and for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system on the PLAYSTATION® network beginning on February 12, 2009. The demo will be also available for Windows-based PCs beginning on February 26, 2009.
In this demo, players will dominate the skies for the first time and battle planes, tanks and amphibious assaults and have the opportunity to dogfight with other elite pilots in a stunning panoramic boss scene.
Key features of the H.A.W.X demo:
• Co-op enabled for up to 4 players – Jump in/Jump out
• Gain experience points and unlock up to three real, licensed planes in the demo:
o F-16A Fighting Falcon
o SU-35 Super Flanker
o AV-8B Harrier II
• Choose between two different game modes:
o Normal – Default control type
o Expert – Allows full control over the aircraft in “Assistance Off” mode
• Two heart-pounding missions:
o Operation: Off Certification (Training mode)
• Learn the skills of an elite pilot in “Assistance Off” mode and pull extreme maneuvers
o Operation: Glass Hammer (Rio De Janeiro)
• Take flight over GeoEye technology (the world’s best satellite data), and witness Brazil like never before
• Learn to use the Enhanced Reality System in “Assistance On” mode, where your plane’s computer calculates the best interception course for you to follow to attack an enemy, evade a missile or hit a ground target
Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X will be available on March 6th 2009 for the consoles and on March 13th for PC.
All comments (16)
BLEH!
Very good I will have a look at it and then decide what to do with this game.
BLEH!
(conspiracy theorie: I have no guarantee anymore, because I am a day-one-owner, so my Box is elder than 3 years...
This update was supposed to crash lets say 10percent of the old Xbox-models so that we need to buy new ones)
@ game:
looks nice, but I don't like this genre.
Fights are very boring. All you see is your HUD blinking'n'flashing, and whenever you hear somethin beepin you have to perform a quick turn and hope not to get blown out of your socks.
(conspiracy theorie: I have no guarantee anymore, because I am a day-one-owner, so my Box is elder than 3 years...
This update was supposed to crash lets say 10percent of the old Xbox-models so that we need to buy new ones)
@ game:
looks nice, but I don't like this genre.
Fights are very boring. All you see is your HUD blinking'n'flashing, and whenever you hear somethin beepin you have to perform a quick turn and hope not to get blown out of your socks.
To people that had their 360's break recently : really should have bought an extended warranty from MS. With all the 360s breaking you've heard of for the last few years, why didn't you?
To people that had their 360's break recently : really should have bought an extended warranty from MS. With all the 360s breaking you've heard of for the last few years, why didn't you?
(Oh and its not entirely broken, but right after the update, the RoD appeared
and now sometimes if I'm unlucky, the screen freezes and POW there it is again)
(Oh and its not entirely broken, but right after the update, the RoD appeared
and now sometimes if I'm unlucky, the screen freezes and POW there it is again)
BLEH!
In it's defense it does have a very large plane selection "off the shelf" anyway.
^^ Thats gonna decide everything.
powder this does have an expert choice u know with voice command too.
After being disappointed by Ace Combat 6; or rather Ace Combat 6's lack of any real innovation from last-gen to this gen, going into this I was not expecting much here either.
But I have to admit, after playing the demo through a couple of times, set on various modes of difficulty, I find Ubisoft's take on the flight-military game quite refreshing - and thank goodness the in-game dialog is a far cry above all that campy, melodramatic fluff that the Japanese developers love to ladle all over their games. If I have to sit through yet another entire Ace Combat game listening to that emo drivel, my brain is liable to liquefy and drool out of my ears.
Anyway, HAWX has turned out a lot better than I thought; not the ultimate flight game or anything, but all the same, a whole world better than I thought it would be. It's nice to know that after a decade, we finally have a military-flight franchise on consoles, capable of rivaling the aging Ace Combat series. Would have had one sooner, had Microsoft not fired the team that created Crimson Skies. All the arcadey stuff aside, that one game has better flight mechanics than all the Ace Combat titles, AirForce Delta titles, HAWX and half the other console flight games out there - combined. Always said Microsoft should have had them create a military-flight game for them (not to mention Crimson Skies 2). Talk about your missed opportunities there. Oh well, now they are independent and working a new project, Dark Void, which Capcom is publishing this fall. Microsoft's loss, everyone else (Capcom, Sony, PS3 owners) gain.
After this demo, I'm definitely getting this game. I wonder if it will work fully with my Namco flight stick, or will I have to purchase the Ubisoft flight stick instead? No matter. It's just finally nice to have some innovation, not to mention a different take, to the genre and have it done well.
BTW - I wonder if Ubisoft knows that the Brazilian capital is in Brasilia, about 750 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro; and a beautiful city in it's own right? I just found it humorous how the demo kept referencing Rio as the capital. I wonder how many people who play the game will actually ever notice?