When the name Tom Clancy is stamped on a game, you are assured that it will at the very least be good if not great. Since Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell and Rainbow 6 landed in next gen, they have tried to expand into other war related markets such as RTS and now Flight Sim. Is their attempt to conquer the fighter pilot genre a foregone conclusion? We will have to wait and see.
H.A.W.X. plays like every other flight sim I have played before. The controls are tight, but I have never flown a fighter jet before so it is unfair to comment on the realism. The demo is in 2 parts: a tutorial and a mission. The tutorial walks you through the controls but for some reason has your camera angle extremely far behind the plane on an angle. This is a disaster for trying to line up a gun kill let alone getting a successful missile shot. Thank god in the mission you can turn this off.
The mission, again, like the controls, are standard fare: shoot down planes, then boats, then tanks, then planes. The game is fun, but does get repetitive. Since you can choose only one plane in the mission, any variability from craft to craft is out of the window. The graphics are very good with the plane design, but the ground textures are decent at best. It is obvious all the emphasis is on the plane and that is okay. The ground could have looked more realistic, but this is a demo.
The jury is still out on whether H.A.W.X. is a must have. I strongly recommended playing the demo for it is fun. My only issue is that flight games do get repetitive because there is only so much you can do in a plane. Aside from sub par ground detail, the planes look great and the controls are easy to learn. Could H.A.W.X. be the best flight sim on next gen? Yes, but with such a diluted market, being the best next gen flight sim is like being the world’s tallest midget.
I was not impressed with this game when I played it at ComicCon, the over the shoulder style camera made it feel real slow and when you got close to the ground the graphics really fell apart, but the clouds looked great!
you can play 3 different planes on the non-tutorial mission. Every lvl you gain playing online or by yourself get you a new plain each time. you can only go to lvl 3, but its easy to do and each plane has a different secondary fire. And i dont know about the ground having norman graphics, if you look at the ground from close up, its got a good amount of detail. They even have an airport you can see near the water if you look for it.
Naahh! Not sure I’d agree with you. Theres only 3 different planes you can play on with the non-tutorial mission. The ground graphics are not so hot either but I agree with Al Zamora… the the clouds looked terrific!!!
Tis game is fantastic
looking for a real 737 throttle for my flightsim , if anyone kows of one please post
There are quite a few sites out there that sell ready made throttles