The reason why HAWX is such an important title for Ubisoft (important enough for selected media from across the globe to descend upon their Bucharest office for the Romanian outpost's first major visit in its seventeen-year history) wasn't to be found on any fact sheet or PowerPoint display. Instead, the answer could be found on a celebratory 'Ten Years of Clancy Games' poster lurking in a darkened corner of the room.
Featuring three scowling shadows, identical but for the glow of their visors, it's almost a satire of the narrow route the Clancy licence has been funnelled down. HAWX (it stands for, er, High Altitude Warfare X) aims to give you a new slant on the Clancy game formula - thousands of kilometres up in the sky.
Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. was a series that showed promise, but after 2010's Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2, all we have is backwards compatibility.
I remember buying Hawx2 back on PS3 after Microsoft bought exclusivity of Ace Combat6.
So to fill that dog fighting space I bought Hawx2, a very basic game that only had a gimmick of evasion that was overused if I remember correctly. I never even finished the game and still own it and my super slim ps3 so who knows I might pop it in one day and see if I can feel the need, I he need for speed.
The Quality Index champions the best games with planes on iPhone.
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