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Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X - Review
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Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X
Release Date: March 3rd, 2009, March 17th, 2009 (PC)
Developers: Ubisoft Romania, Ubisoft Kyiv (PC)
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platforms: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC, Android
Genre: Military Flight Simulator
Players: 1(single player mode) Online Mode
Rating (ESRB): T (TEEN)
Synopsis
The player begins the game in 2014 as the player assumes the role of former U.S. Air Force pilot, David Crenshaw, who is part of an elite unit called H.A.W.X ("High Altitude Warfare Xperimental squadron"), provides fire-support missions for the Ghost team carrying out covert operations in Ciudad Jurez, Mexico. However, shortly after the mission, the Air Force decides to deactivate the H.A.W.X squadron and its pilots, including Crenshaw, are recruited into the PMC Artemis Global Security.
Over the next six years, Crenshaw and his squadron perform various missions for Artemis and its clients, including defending valuable facilities and attacking insurgent bases. In 2021, Artemis signs a lucrative defense contract with Brazil, making it one of the most powerful PMCs in the world. However, shortly after the contract is signed, Las Trinidad, an alliance of anti-US South American states, launches an invasion on Rio de Janeiro.
With the help of Crenshaw and his squadron, Artemis and the Brazilian military are able to push back the assault. The United States then sends in forces to intervene in the conflict, thereby subverting Artemis' role in the conflict and pushing the company towards financial difficulties as its stocks drop. In response, Artemis terminates its contract and attempts to drive out "interfering" U.S. forces in the Magellan Strait, as Las Trinidad had offered them a better deal. Then, its naval forces attack a U.S. carrier battle group. Unwilling to turn on their own country, Crenshaw and his squadron side with the United States and help them destroy the Artemis forces in the area.
After the United States orders Artemis to disarm, the PMC knocks out U.S. communication and radar systems (despite previously having their Caribbean HQ bombed by U.S. B-52s in a retaliatory strike), rendering the entire nation nearly defenseless, and launches a massive preemptive attack on United States soil. Though H.A.W.X manages to prevent them from taking Washington, DC and assassinating the President of the United States, Artemis manages to attack and capture numerous American cities and military facilities, severely damaging U.S. military capability. Crenshaw and his squadron then assists the American counterattack against Artemis as the U.S. military attempts to regain their footing. However, as the United States begins gaining the upper hand with the help of Japan and NATO, Adrian DeWinter, the CEO of Artemis, announces that he has stolen some of the United States' nuclear weapons and gives the President an ultimatum, surrender in 24 hours or watch the United States be destroyed.
H.A.W.X, along with the Ghost Recon team and the US military, manage to restore the SLAMS missile defense shield found in Tom Clancy's EndWar and retake the stolen nukes, but Artemis still has a trump card. Artemis forces managed to smuggle one nuclear warhead into Los Angeles and threatens to detonate it. With the warhead eventually located by AWACS Citadel and destroyed by Crenshaw with seconds to spare, the Artemis threat was destroyed once and for all.
In the epilogue which takes place several weeks later, it is revealed that Artemis has been completely destroyed, however DeWinter and other Artemis executives have managed to escape and are now international fugitives. The conflict between the United States and Artemis, despite lasting less than 72 hours, had caused over 40,000 civilian and military deaths all across the United States, prompting the United Nations to begin a crackdown on all PMCs. PMCs are now either forced to take on small scale support and logistical roles, as they had at the turn of the century, or they will be dismantled. Meanwhile, Crenshaw alone is sent in a F-22 Raptor fighter jet on a black operation to assassinate DeWinter and his subordinates. Thanks to intelligence provided by Third Echelon, Crenshaw destroys Dewinter's hideout located above a series of canyons.
Synopsis Rating: 9
Gameplay
The gameplay of this game is nice and smooth. But the realism isnt factual, this maybe because this game is set in the near-future, but for example you never actually land your aircraft and unlike many other Military Flight Sims you have unlimited fuel. So in my view this is more of a "arcade style game" but this is a good game for anyone to just pick up and play
Gameplay Rating: 8.5
Graphics
This game used a system called "GeoEye" which is a satellite in space that takes pictures. They used this to create the various real life "areas" such as Chicago or washington D.C. But the system is not perfect so you would see the occasional flat building (as in a picture of the top), But this was very rare. There was also many problems with the actual aircraft, visual differences in many aircraft models with multiple variants like the F-14, F-15, F-16, Su-27, Su-35 & Su-37 are poorly detailed. For example the visual differences between the F-15C and the F-15E are not modeled, as both aircraft in the game have the same 3-D model with a different weapon loadout. However, in reality the F-15C is a single seat air superiority fighter/interceptor while the F-15E is a two seat multi-role strike fighter with extra hardpoints and Conformal Fuel Tanks. Another example is with the MiG-25 and the MiG-31, where the both aircraft are identical in the game, whereas the real versions have several differences. The same drawback is seen in most if not all aircraft with multiple variants in the game.
Graphics: 9
Multiplayer
The multiplayer in this game is decent, the rank system is flawed, in one day of playing (which was like 2hrs) I was the highest rank. But gameplay is fun, the server is really laggy and being lagged out is very common, this is one of the reasons why I gave up on the game.
Multiplayer: 7
Overall Rating for Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X: 8.5
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X
Release Date: March 3rd, 2009, March 17th, 2009 (PC)
Developers: Ubisoft Romania, Ubisoft Kyiv (PC)
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platforms: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC, Android
Genre: Military Flight Simulator
Players: 1(single player mode) Online Mode
Rating (ESRB): T (TEEN)
Synopsis
The player begins the game in 2014 as the player assumes the role of former U.S. Air Force pilot, David Crenshaw, who is part of an elite unit called H.A.W.X ("High Altitude Warfare Xperimental squadron"), provides fire-support missions for the Ghost team carrying out covert operations in Ciudad Jurez, Mexico. However, shortly after the mission, the Air Force decides to deactivate the H.A.W.X squadron and its pilots, including Crenshaw, are recruited into the PMC Artemis Global Security.
Over the next six years, Crenshaw and his squadron perform various missions for Artemis and its clients, including defending valuable facilities and attacking insurgent bases. In 2021, Artemis signs a lucrative defense contract with Brazil, making it one of the most powerful PMCs in the world. However, shortly after the contract is signed, Las Trinidad, an alliance of anti-US South American states, launches an invasion on Rio de Janeiro.
With the help of Crenshaw and his squadron, Artemis and the Brazilian military are able to push back the assault. The United States then sends in forces to intervene in the conflict, thereby subverting Artemis' role in the conflict and pushing the company towards financial difficulties as its stocks drop. In response, Artemis terminates its contract and attempts to drive out "interfering" U.S. forces in the Magellan Strait, as Las Trinidad had offered them a better deal. Then, its naval forces attack a U.S. carrier battle group. Unwilling to turn on their own country, Crenshaw and his squadron side with the United States and help them destroy the Artemis forces in the area.
After the United States orders Artemis to disarm, the PMC knocks out U.S. communication and radar systems (despite previously having their Caribbean HQ bombed by U.S. B-52s in a retaliatory strike), rendering the entire nation nearly defenseless, and launches a massive preemptive attack on United States soil. Though H.A.W.X manages to prevent them from taking Washington, DC and assassinating the President of the United States, Artemis manages to attack and capture numerous American cities and military facilities, severely damaging U.S. military capability. Crenshaw and his squadron then assists the American counterattack against Artemis as the U.S. military attempts to regain their footing. However, as the United States begins gaining the upper hand with the help of Japan and NATO, Adrian DeWinter, the CEO of Artemis, announces that he has stolen some of the United States' nuclear weapons and gives the President an ultimatum, surrender in 24 hours or watch the United States be destroyed.
H.A.W.X, along with the Ghost Recon team and the US military, manage to restore the SLAMS missile defense shield found in Tom Clancy's EndWar and retake the stolen nukes, but Artemis still has a trump card. Artemis forces managed to smuggle one nuclear warhead into Los Angeles and threatens to detonate it. With the warhead eventually located by AWACS Citadel and destroyed by Crenshaw with seconds to spare, the Artemis threat was destroyed once and for all.
In the epilogue which takes place several weeks later, it is revealed that Artemis has been completely destroyed, however DeWinter and other Artemis executives have managed to escape and are now international fugitives. The conflict between the United States and Artemis, despite lasting less than 72 hours, had caused over 40,000 civilian and military deaths all across the United States, prompting the United Nations to begin a crackdown on all PMCs. PMCs are now either forced to take on small scale support and logistical roles, as they had at the turn of the century, or they will be dismantled. Meanwhile, Crenshaw alone is sent in a F-22 Raptor fighter jet on a black operation to assassinate DeWinter and his subordinates. Thanks to intelligence provided by Third Echelon, Crenshaw destroys Dewinter's hideout located above a series of canyons.
Synopsis Rating: 9
Gameplay
The gameplay of this game is nice and smooth. But the realism isnt factual, this maybe because this game is set in the near-future, but for example you never actually land your aircraft and unlike many other Military Flight Sims you have unlimited fuel. So in my view this is more of a "arcade style game" but this is a good game for anyone to just pick up and play
Gameplay Rating: 8.5
Graphics
This game used a system called "GeoEye" which is a satellite in space that takes pictures. They used this to create the various real life "areas" such as Chicago or washington D.C. But the system is not perfect so you would see the occasional flat building (as in a picture of the top), But this was very rare. There was also many problems with the actual aircraft, visual differences in many aircraft models with multiple variants like the F-14, F-15, F-16, Su-27, Su-35 & Su-37 are poorly detailed. For example the visual differences between the F-15C and the F-15E are not modeled, as both aircraft in the game have the same 3-D model with a different weapon loadout. However, in reality the F-15C is a single seat air superiority fighter/interceptor while the F-15E is a two seat multi-role strike fighter with extra hardpoints and Conformal Fuel Tanks. Another example is with the MiG-25 and the MiG-31, where the both aircraft are identical in the game, whereas the real versions have several differences. The same drawback is seen in most if not all aircraft with multiple variants in the game.
Graphics: 9
Multiplayer
The multiplayer in this game is decent, the rank system is flawed, in one day of playing (which was like 2hrs) I was the highest rank. But gameplay is fun, the server is really laggy and being lagged out is very common, this is one of the reasons why I gave up on the game.
Multiplayer: 7
Overall Rating for Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X: 8.5
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Dimebag (11-18-2011)
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