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Tom Clancy’s HAWX review
By jykwan | April 18, 2009
Tom Clancy’s HAWX is a flying action simulation game where you get to fly all war planes that exsit to this current date. Even working prototypes. The game is basically about shooting everything that is considered hostile. Not everything is just fly in deliver the load and fly out, in the missions, you do get some interesting and difficult task like protect air force one and provide close support for your AWACS. Thou i will say that it might look very nice and realistic but to me it just looks very movie like, you the best pilot can do everything. The game allows you the pilot to push your plane to its extreme limits to simulate almost any awesome stunt war move which practically allows you to dominate the air. These moves are like swivelling around at mach 1 dodging missles by the inch and doing backflips in the air. Even the most unrealistic thing that players like me tend to ignore is that the plane can carry over 100 missles or about over 200 payloads, which in reality i don’t think a real jet can carry more than 10. But come on, its a game and i just want to blast everything in the air. Sadly i couldn’t get any screen captures from my PC as i do not know why i can’t print screen for this game, so here are some random pics from IGN.com
Target Locked and missiles away
The graphics is a thumbs up from me. The gameplay is adreneline pumping as the game packs the sky and groud with alot of targets which you can blast all the way. You can never get tired of the locking sound of your missle ready to go caseu thats is what you will always be waiting for. The hard part well would be evading missiles i guess. And hard would mean dodging a few missiles with AA firing upon you at the same time. That is extreme, but its a game.
Flares!!!
Dont know how to fly? Well there is the ERS (Enhanced Reality System). Long story short, it tells the pilot on what is the best course to fly the plane to get the best hit on the target. I rarely use this as i prefer freestyle flying. But in some missions this is useful, especially for ground strike targets because you have to strike targets at hard to reach places like in the middle of the city with tall buildings. You could do it without the ERS, just dont fly straight into the building in front of you. i would suggest not to rely on it too much as sometimes the enemy will jam the ERS frequency and disable it.
ERS flight path
Overall the game is a nice game to play. If you’re a simulation fan who likes action, its a good recommendation. The requirements would be:
Operating System: Windows XP SP3 / Windows Vista SP1
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz / AMD Athlon XP 2000+ or higher (Intel Core 2 Duo 6320 / AMD Athlon X2 4000+ or higher recommended)
RAM: 1 GB (2 GB recomended)
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 128MB / ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB or higher (256MB video memory recommended)
Sound card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
DirectX version: DirectX 9.0 or 10.0 libraries, support 10.1.
Hard drive space: 7 GB
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