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HAWX: features jets, "Tom Clancy," dumb-ass acronyms
cloudeagle
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Well, that didn't take long. Shortly after buying the rights to slap Tom Clancy's name on whatever they feel like without even the barest of involvements from the actual Tom Clancy for roughly 47 skillion dollars, they're slapping it on an air combat game.
According to the company, HAWX stands for High-Altitude Warfare. Um, no it doesn't. Anyway, private military companies are growing in power, which results in the perfect excuse to hop into a plane and shoot stuff down.
IGN says the game involves something called ERS, or "Enhanced Reality System." Goddamn, these meaningless acronyms are making my head hurt. Anyway, that involves
...which does sound kinda cool. There's also four-player co-op and a 16-player vs. mode. Could be interesting. It's coming out for the PC, 360 and PS3 this fall. The link has a trailer.
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/863/863558p1.html
According to the company, HAWX stands for High-Altitude Warfare. Um, no it doesn't. Anyway, private military companies are growing in power, which results in the perfect excuse to hop into a plane and shoot stuff down.
IGN says the game involves something called ERS, or "Enhanced Reality System." Goddamn, these meaningless acronyms are making my head hurt. Anyway, that involves
radars, incoming missile detection, an anti-crash system, damage control system, tactical map, information relay, weapons trajectory control and allows players to give commands to their AI squadron. With the Assistance Mode flipped on, the ERS will put pilots into a maximum safety mode. Think of it like having all the assists turned on in a racing game. You get more freedom and control with Assistance Mode off, but you will also be at greater risk without the full protection of the ERS.
...which does sound kinda cool. There's also four-player co-op and a 16-player vs. mode. Could be interesting. It's coming out for the PC, 360 and PS3 this fall. The link has a trailer.
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/863/863558p1.html
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It looks like it's more "X-treme."
Which means it'll probably be completely targeted at a mainstream crowd who wouldn't normally buy a jet fighter game.
It looks pretty cool to me in spite of the silly acronyms.
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Probably not going to be as good.
And the pre-orders went wild!
I'm guessing High Altitude Warfare eXperimental. (HAWX). Doesn't sound too far off of something the real life Air Force Might do.
I read the game description and, like most of Clancy's books and games, is based off of real life tech they're working on; that ERS isn't too far off what they're working on right now, where the pilot has maximum situational awareness with minimal dial fiddling.
Margaret Thatcher
Hmm...well...that's actually pretty cool! And I do enjoy the other Tom Clancy games myself, I certainly wasn't knocking them. I hope that their entry into Jet combat is just as well- produced.
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Maybe they'll excise the shitty story with annoying characters part. At any rate, I don't see how more jet fighting games on the market is a bad thing.
Boy, I sure hope I get to dance with the angels!
So yea... other than the one shitty bit in the trailer (pushing forward on the stick does NOT make a plane's nose go up!), I'm pretty excited. I hope for the best, but... I dunno...
See, now I've gone and talked myself down to "cautiously optimistic."
Edit: and if they don't let us use the AC6 flightstick in this game, fuck them!
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But the fact that this is made by Blazing Angels team......
I never thought I'd see a worse acronym than FEAR
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No way that that's worse than FEAR
No way
Funny the first thing that popped into my head was that they were doing a air combat sim.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. would like to have a word with you.
Ugh...Blazing Angels...
That game was sooo close to being good, but it didn't quite get there and was really disappointing. I never played the sequel.
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Is it wrong for me to say I enjoyed Blazing Angels?
Anyways, really dumb name aside, I read the small preview and it sounds fun. It made the ERS system sound like easy mode, though, but they said you can turn off individual parts or the whole system off if you wanted to.
See, that wouldn't be half-bad. We'd still have "hawks" spelled with an X, but still. But nope, Ubi says it's just High Altitude Warfare, full stop.
Ubisoft better not throw the name on every game they produce, already hard as it is owning every clancy game.
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Shadowy organizations staffed by hard-bitten, amoral thuggish types with no real oversight who commit acts of violence on the outskirts of the law?
That's like....awesome. Like james bond with a gotee, wifebeater, and tribal tatoos carrying an assault rifle instead of a pussy-ass mini-pistol :P
So long as they get away from milking the WW2 cow, I'm a-ok #1 fine with that. Also, other than Army of Two, what other real big-name games have involved PMCs?
Just off the top of my head..um. Jagged Alliance? I honestly can't think of any.
Hell, now that I think of it, if you run the numbers I think every modern real war is going to involve PMCs from now on. Blackwater guards VIPs, Ghanese mercenaries guard Camps Liberty and Victory in Iraq, ect.
Margaret Thatcher
Gotcha.
I own quite a few as well and like how Clancy, or his designated rep, still takes his games somewhat seriously and tries to inject some believability and realism into them.
I could see N.A.T.O. forming a "Rainbow 6" anti-terrorist team, ESPECIALLY in a post 9-11 world. Also can see the N.S.A. forming a real life "Splinter Cell" and sending guys on high-risk, very illegal operations to kill terrorists, while denying the existance of such an organization.
Hell, I'd bet money a version of Splinter Cell really does exist.
That being said, don't think he'd go the 'WHHHOOOOOOOOOOO, I'M EXTREEEME, THIS GAME RAWKS DOODZ!" route and have the X stand for eXtreme, because that would be pretty lame, like the OP said, and totally out of character with the games he's done so far.
Margaret Thatcher
I think it might be because people whine too much. Label a country as the enemy in a modern setting and someone somewhere is gonna cry foul. I remember there was a Siphon Filter game in which there was supposed to be some Quebec terrorist organization setting bombs in a subway. There were complaints and the content was removed even before the game hit the shelves.
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You do know that Clancy now officially has absolutely nothing to do with the games anymore? Ubisoft acquired all rights to the Tom Clancy name. This means they can freely slap the name on anything they want.
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o_O
I did not know that.
Interesting. And sad. And odd.
Why would you sign away your name? I mean, what's to prevent "Tom Clancy's Cooking mama" other than the sheer stupidity of naming a game that?
I "get" the OP now, ugh.
Margaret Thatcher
Fat sacks of cash?
Hmmm, I'd say that's worse than FEAR but not as bad as HAWX
a lot of his books are not good
How can an acronym that actually makes sense, despite grammatical errors be worse than "First Encounter Assault Recon"?
It should be High Altitude Warfare Tactics. Or HAWT for short.
I never asked for this!
Spelling things with an X like that is stupid, and turning "warfare" into WX is stupid
Ubisoft isn't releasing hard details but it is estimated that these sacks of cash might contain sixty million euros. No joke.
Shit, I wish my name was worth even sixty.
His name on successful video games means that his name comes after those five beautiful words: "Pay To The Order Of:"
edit: an old classic: http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/tom_clancy_really_happy