Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. (PC)

The 17th March 2009 saw the Tom Clancy game series take to the skies, in the form of the game H.A.W.X. The game is set in the near future and has you playing the part of flying ace Captain David Crenshaw who heads a group of elite pilots of the U.S. Air Force codenamed H.A.W.X. The game takes place in the same timeframe as another of the Tom Clancy games "Ghost Recon 2" in fact in a couple of the missions feature Captain Scott Mitchell and the Ghost Recon team in it. After flying several missions for the Air Force your character is hired by a private company to join their personal armed forces. In this timeframe big businesses hold sway much ...  Read the complete review

What's Inside? I'm not gonna tell you what's the story here, what mission, or even the walkthrough. Instead, I'll tell you more specifically about the gameplay and stuffs the game tries to offer. The game play overall is action-arcade combat simulation type. If you are already familiar with simulation game type, with taking off, landing, flying to avoid radar detection... you won't find any of it here. The speed slide is not available, so forget about 30% throttle, 50% bla bla bla. What you can do is slowing down... and boosting up. But hey- cheer up, when you play the game turns out its entertaining, challenging and addicting. Plenty of dogfight, ...  Read the complete review

Tom Clancy's Hawx is the newest edition to the Tom Clancy series, and is a combat flight simulator. The game can be played single player (through a campaign), co-op campaigns or versus mode (dogfights). The control system for this game is very usable and caters for users of different skill levels. When you first start the game, you start in "assistance on mode". This basically means you have the camera on your plane. You have a lot less control of your plane, for turning and quick maneuvers. The positives of this mode, is that your plane is very easy to control and you cannot stall. Whilst in assistance off mode, by pressing a button you can follow ...  Read the complete review

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. (PC) This game is the first real flight sim/shooter game that actually looks realistic and the controls not to hard to get a hang of, the story line is a little bit dull but this does not matter to much because everything else is fantastic, as noted above the contols are quite easy to get the hang of, a mouse and keyboard are good for most aerial manouvers though it is best played with a flight controler if you have one. As always, Tom Clancy's games are rich in detail with photo-realistic graphics and great game play, this game is no exception! You also get to fly several different modern planes like the Euro fighter, MiG & ...  Read the complete review

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. (PC) was released in United States on March 6, 2009. The game offers a fresh and exciting perspective on the flight simulator genre. It brings new elements from first person shooters and combines them with the speed and adrenalin rush of fling fighter planes. The main plot of the game revolves around an international military corporation which offers private military support to countries who request it. The player is placed in the seat of a H.A.W.X. pilot, a special fighting team from the U.S.A who joins the ARTEMIS corporation. Eventually things go wrong and you are called back to your old squadron to fight your ex employer, ARTEMIS, who ...  Read the complete review