Adhesive Games‘ Hawken is a game that you need to listen to. Stomping my way through the eerily gorgeous futuristic metropolis’ and desolate desert cities of this drab world, I could hear everything. I could hear the crunch underfoot as my mech stepped heavily onto a street. I could hear the sounds of machinery at work all around, and I could distinctly take note of the hydraulics as I pushed my heavy machine of death through the sky. It felt great, it looked great and it sounded lovely.
Expect the game to only work offline right now.
As we trend ever deeper into a world of games that require servers maintained by the developer or publisher, we see more and more games disappearing from the world. What happens when these games are shut down? What does it take for a game to survive beyond this point?
Most modern games that have online components like destiny rely so heavily on co op between players that even if you had a full disc version popping it in and playing won't be a fun experience as you can't play the actual game after hitting a wall with difficulty levels of they even boot
But classic titles like vice city will still be the same in 2049 as they were in 2001 provided you play on a disc not stripped down digital versions that have the soundtrack cut out ten years later
Hawken, the free to play mech shooter has had its servers closed on Steam, but it will remain live on consoles.
This is exactly why only online multiplayer games won't last very long. It's important to have a single player campaign (a good one, not a throw-away trash story) or some kind of offline multiplayer mode.
I don't need NO Stinking Hands on Preview! I need Hawken on my SSD NOW!
Disclaimer (yes I know the Hawken Beta has started but I'm gonna play Planetside 2 Beta and Firefall Beta until 12-12-12 then make time for Hawken, Firefall, and PS2)