By Alec Meer on September 3rd, 2010 at 9:00 pm.
I can’t think of a more charming way to hawk HAWX 2, much as I’d be enormously surprised if the upcoming combat flight simette sequel had anything like the sense of humour of this 8-bit official demake. Or maybe 16-bit. I don’t know. The number doesn’t matter: it’s HAWX re-imagined as a vibrantly silly vertical shmup, replete with power-ups, midi music and implausibly huge boss-planes. As far away from the grey sterneness of the original HAWX as an aeroplane-based game ever could be.
Ratatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatat, etc.
You should of linked some ratatat…
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Obligatory.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKniXABsUeE
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Right.
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Whennn willl it end!!!
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As soon as John becomes a better healer, Quinns gets enough iron, and Kieron does not link to some pop music.
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Once Kieron avoided linking to pop music.
And besides, he asked us RPS readers to do it, so why not? :)
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When was the last time Kieron didn’t link to some pop music? I seem to remember it happening infrequently in days of yore, but not recently.
KG
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@Xercies: you just won an Internet, sir. Cheers.
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I quite agree with you.
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Very much 16-bit in its sensibilities.
Also, hooray for the stupid idea that everything belongs in a web browser, I think I managed to brush the back button on my keyboard just as I picked up a powerup. Sigh.
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meh. It’s a neat marketting ploy, but the demake is bland and boring…wait…it really IS HAWX!
genius!
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browser games are great for a little friday-afternoon at-work goof-off. Installable games are both more of a potential distraction later, and more visible to the IT Overlords.
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If only HAWX was actually this fun.
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Awesome, reminds me of Raptor.
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thanks a lot admins :)
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That was fun.
Beat it, which I don’t really manage much in these shooters.
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A million years ago I remember reading about a B52 bombing game in a board/RPG print magazine for the… get this… Commodore Pet. This was before I had a computer, around the time that White Dwarf (the article wasn’t in WD, it was in a US mag – I thought I was debonair sending off my… my.. what the hell was the name for the cash substitutes you could buy at post offices to buy stuff abroad?) was the highlight of my month.
I still remember that article, not the detail but the excitement for computer gaming as a medium. I know that when I read the article I might as well have been reading Science Fiction, the idea that using such an expensive device for something that could be accomplished with card and paper was sheer fantasy.
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Traveller’s cheques.
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