Comments on: Angry Planes: Tom Clancy’s HAWX

By: Nutterguy

Nutterguy — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:48:01 +0000

Started playing the video, got totally distracted by the brilliant words beneath, way to steal the thunder from the game John.
More previews like this…

By: Jonas

Jonas — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:16:50 +0000

Are you employing sarcasm to tell me you don’t like the idea of a golden F22? What exactly is not to like?

By: Voidman

Voidman — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:01:33 +0000

I can see it already:
3 kills you get AWACS support, 5 will get you EMP blast anywhere on the airspace map so you will take down multiple bandits, 7 and you get to summon a SAAHS (Special Anti-Air Hunter Squadron) that would fly around shooting shit down. Also, hardcore mode with no HUD and you won’t be able to throw the rockets back to the sender. Level high enough and unlock the GOLDEN F22! sweet!

By: schurem

schurem — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:34:41 +0000

imo Clancy silliness > Japanese silliness, and therefore hawx rawx. i love shooty swirly jet gameplay. and frak you all elitist bastards who killed the fun in flight sims. F4 is great, and il2 is too, but do you guys remember the us-navy fighters series? that was pretty frakkin close to TCH or AC6. flight sim lite ftw.
and yay crimson skies. that begs for a reboot.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:40:07 +0000

RE: Tom Clancy’s TAXI

Space robots from the future? I’m sold.

By: Man Raised By Puffins

Man Raised By Puffins — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:33:32 +0000

@ Rei: From what I understand, it’s similar to the Rainbow 6: Vegas 2 setup whereby you can level up in both single and multiplayer.

To be fair to the game it does appear to be adding some new features to the Ace Combat formula, on top of simply replacing Japanese silliness with Clancy silliness. The assistance on/off gimmicks, and the dynamic camera in particular, look interesting enough to me that I’ll probably give the demo a whirl at least.

By: nakke

nakke — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:29:43 +0000

HAWKZ would be awesome. High Altitude Warfare Kills Zombies, obviously.

By: theanorak

theanorak — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:13:53 +0000

“Rinse and clear, over(alls)”

“It’s like it just…Vanished. ”
[Pfc Jones holds up a pink bottle]
“Thanks Sarge!”

“…and that’s Staff Sgt Parker. He’s the big swinging dick around here”
“so I see — he must have taken those old Carling Black Label ads seriously”

/coat

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:16:34 +0000

“Flash out!”
…
“Shit! Calling in Persil!”

By: Biggles

Biggles — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:01:02 +0000

May have to have a go at making LAUNDROMAT, bootleg demake stylee…

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:32:11 +0000

To be honest, there is lots of good clancey games. They might not be hardcore or realistic. But vegas is quite good in coop, and i would do anything for a true sequel to chaos theory (3 games in one). Even advanced warfighter 2 was a lovely counterstrike thing with more depth. I even understand (from my rts deity tom chick) that end war is “quite good”.

Clancey books however i associate with utter nonsense.

By: KP

KP — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:45:04 +0000

All I get out of HAWKZ is sadness that the combat flight sim genre is non-existant these days. :(
-and an apreciation for how many years the Clancy franchise has spent swirlng deeper in to the shitter.