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WarHawk

Format PlayStation 3

Developer Sony

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Genre Action, Adventure, Sim / Strategy

12-Jan-2007 Air combat game morphs into mega Halo rival!

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This much you know about WarHawk: it's coming to PS3 in the middle of this year; it's an updated version of a PSone game you never quite got around to playing; and it's an airborne shooter in which you control your craft by tilting and thrusting the pad. Here's what you don't know about WarHawk: it's not all sky-based. In fact, for large chunks of the game you're very much on foot, and must fight your way through war-torn cities and rolling green pastures without the crutch of your trusty plane.

The good news is, the ground-level action looks every inch as exciting as the high-altitude stuff, largely thanks to the huge number of troops involved in the gunfights and the staggeringly destructive array of weapons. The battles are sprawling, chaotic things in which vast scrums of space marines exchange fire and jostle for position. Cover appears to play a significant role in combat, the battlefields being dotted with sandbanks and hidey-holes for you to use to your advantage.

And then there's the tanks, hulking great things fitted with missile-spurting cannons capable of swatting down all manner of enemy aircraft. All of which raises the somewhat thrilling prospect of air-to-land multiplayer combat. So what will you do during a 32-player online battle? Jump into the cockpit of your WarHawk and engage the enemy in a dogfight? Or keep your feet on the ground, nab yourself a tank, and spend the duration of the battle flicking enemies from the sky with a well-timed rocket? The choice is yours.

A game we originally thought to be a two-dimensional, flight-heavy shoot-a-thon is slowly metamorphosing into something far more interesting. Expect a title to rival Killzone 2 in terms of bang-per-buck when WarHawk comes down to land in August.

PSW Staff