Tom Clancy's HAWX announced
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 - 8:58pm
Well, at least it's an interesting possible alternative to Ace Combat.
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Ghost Recon for jets?
4 player campaign co-op?
Consider me intrigued.
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Don't you mean H.A.W.X.?
Those periods are extremely important.
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It's only a small step now until we get to see Tom Clancy's LULZ.
Same reaction, but I guess it's better than H.A.W.K.Z.
Something about the trailer doesn't look right to me. The jet looks a little too... dirty, I guess. And there's a bit too many gold reflective surfaces for my tastes. Got enough of that in HALO 3.
But I love me some Ace Combat, so I'm hoping this'll have the same kind of gameplay but with better voice acting.
Dance with the angels....
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Looks cool, I am a sucker for Clancy games.
Really, really terrible title though.
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YES!
More combat flight goodness for the 360!
I'm in.
This is the blazing angels team guys, temper your excitement.
My days of not taking you seriously have certainly come to a middle.
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*shudder*
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Agreed.
That's some bad news.
I suppose it is too much to hope that they got the bad game out of their system and are ready to provide a top tier combat flight sim for all platforms?
Yeah, I know. Way too optimistic!
Ubisoft's been pretty good about maintaining the quality of the Tom Clancy games. I'm going to have faith that they wouldn't be funding it if they didn't expect it to be good. Why risk diluting the Tom Clancy brand that they just paid all that money for full ownership of otherwise?
It's an awful name; but come to think of it, Rainbox Six is an almost as silly, and even less descriptive, name for a game but they've established it to the point that we hardly think of it any more.
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I dunno, Blazing Angels was a test in patience, but I thought Blazing Angels 2 was very good, or at least several steps in the right direction.. that is, except for the Iceberg + Spotlights - Guns mission.
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Consider my excitement thoroughly tempered.
As for Ubisoft.. I don't think they care if they dilute the Tom Clancy branding. They just want crazy high sales of their new ridiculously titled game, whether it's any good or not. And since Sinatar dropped that bomb I'd say odds lean toward it not being very good at all. The Blazing Angels game I played (1 or 2? I don't know. Does it matter?) was a mess.
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What an insipid title.
Having purchased the Tom Clancy name, it looks like they are going to run that brand into the ground.
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The use of the "X" in place of "ks" indicates to me that this game will be "X-TREME." I mean, to the max, where I will no doubt feel the burn, and so forth.
I just recently went back to and finished Blazing Angels 2 and enjoyed it. I couldn't play the first one due to the controls and external only view, but they added cockpit view and padlock type controls for the second one and it was fun to me.
The name for this new game is unfortunate and I have a hard time seeing the Blazing Angels team falling in line with the more serious tone and better controls schemes that the Clancy games are known for, but I'll wait until I see more than a splash trailer to make a final judgement.
That name though...ugh.
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Please let me be able to use the Ace Combat flightstick with this game.
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Interesting that it's coming to PC too. I figured this for a console only title.
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Come on now,... the trailer didn't look that bad. It even had Capt. Mitchell for a good healthy dose of tie-in!
Oh wait a second,...
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I'm taking a wait and see approach here. My thinking is that the Blazing Angels titles were more just testbed's for the team to get experience. With what Ubisoft just spent on buying Tom Clancy's name, I don't think they'll push a flight game out with his name that is the same tripe level of quality that Blazing Angels was. They may screw it up but I'm holding out hope they won't. Definitely won't be pre-ordering though, especially for PC. The PC version of Blazing Angels was insulting.
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I hope hope hope its fun! We need a good plane game shooter type game for the PC.
Think of all the lovely mods we can make... AHH SWOOON! 
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I knew there was something funny about those planes. They're those new fangled kind that gain altitude by way of screen-tearing rather than lift.
As for running the Clancy brand into the ground, you know that Tom Clancy's Beyond Good and Evil would've sold much better.
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I wish my name would become a brand. I think firesloth: Slow Burn could be an awesome jet combat game! Or one that simulated athlete's foot.
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So that's the secret of the Eurofighter.
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Since this is on PC I better be able to use my Joystick or I will be pissed. I've been waiting for something like this forever! A PC Jet game where it is not a sim!
I can only play so much battlefield. I really really wish they would bring Ace Combat to the PC.
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The screenshots on Gamespy at least had realistic weapons loadouts. I hope it doesn't suck.
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Well, they better make sure the ground textures don't suck anyway...given how many times Swamp Air plows into it.
I do weep for the dilution of the Tom Clancy name though. There was a time when Tom Clancy meant that the title you were purchasing was a realistic well-researched military game. Now... well not so much. I've got an audio email in mind for the podcast on this topic...
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Don't tease Certis so...there were like 2 emails last week.