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HAWX 2 recruits your friends for multiplayer dogfights

by David Hinkle on Jul 29th 2010 9:00PM

The competitive multiplayer of the first Tom Clancy's HAWX game was limited to a single deathmatch-type experience. In Tom Clancy's HAWX 2: HAWX HARDER, there will be a full-on multiplayer mode in addition to the four-player co-op capabilities of the campaign, survival, free-flight and arcade modes, providing players with the opportunity to play the Iceman to their friend's Maverick through local and online multiplayer.

Eurogamer has the goods on the new feature, which will see up to eight players take to the virtual skies for six different mission types in any of the game's 32 selectable planes -- play won't be limited to just your usual deathmatch variant this time around. Sadly, Ubisoft wasn't showing anything beyond team deathmatch, so there's little else to report. In the meanwhile, we suggest you gather some buds and kill time like real pilots.

HAWX 2 flies the unfriendly skies on September 7 in the US.

Source: Eurogamer

Tags: hawx-2, microsoft, nintendo, pc, playstation, ps3, ubisoft, ubisoft-bucharest, wii, xbox

Reader Comments (24)

I loved the first.

@S0lid Sn4ke
Nice hidden "first" post, very sneaky.

You jerk.

Wow, I didn't recognize that. No, seriously, I loved the first hawx game, very challenging.

@S0lid Sn4ke Agreed. 4 player campaign co-op was awesome. It was a very underrated game.

Goose wasn't a pilot, and it would be pretty boring to play Goose while your friend plays maverick.

@Dustin F

Yeah, shoulda been Iceman. Fixed, thanks! :)

@Dave Hinkle

LOL, I thought you were just being funny. It's no big deal when the pun makes us smirk.

I may just make my little brother play goose next time. Hand him the Atlas off the shelf and tell him to navigate and make sure we don't run out of fuel.

Are you kidding? No Iceman reference? That's cold, Joystiq.

@CrimsonRyan
They have correctly set up the Iceman pun! Now my former comment makes me look dumb! Horray!

8 players? Way too low for this gen. Minimum 16 players or multiplayer will be so empty.

16 cutting edge jets fighting one another? No thanks! 8 players was insane enough. Plus the game is drop dead gorgeous.

@Anticrawl

If that's true I'll have to check out HAWX 1 again, I only use cockpit view and I thought the game was too easy. On top of that I didn't like the story that much.

I think my problem was that I got too hyped to fly another flight game. Haha just realized that the only games I get over hyped on are the Tom Clancey games.

Thanks again I'll check it out once more with what you said, might make me like this series.

4 player co-op has me on board. Looking forward to it.

@Tez Me too, but I have 0 friends that will play this. That makes the 4 part hard to handle for myself. Nonetheless, looking forward to it anyway.

Actually, 8 sounds about right for this genre. Too many players and it'll be too chaotic, but 4-on-4 sounds perfect. Besides, in games that have 16+ players, you're usually divided up into squads, anyway.

At any rate, its nice to see them expanding the multiplayer. Even though it was limited to just deathmatch, I put quite a bit of time into it simply because it was fun.

i just went to an airshow today and I'm pretty desperate for an air game, sim or not. I hope there is an option to turn off the camera that allows you to out maneuver missiles or whatever it did.

There was in the first game and there will be in this game. There was also an expert flight control system in the first one which was pretty unforgiving when combined with cockpit only view.

@Anticrawl

Maybe I'm not understanding you, but it was extremely easy to fly on 'expert' mode. The game is quite pretty, and it succeeded at being what it set out to be... except for a terrible story.

But this is no 'unforgiving' flight sim by any stretch. It's strange to me... I think a good modern sim would sell very well.

How do the controls for Hawx compare to Warhawk's ummm, warhawks? I am well entertained with it still, but am always interested in aerial combat games.

@(Unverified)

You know, at first I want to laugh at this question, since they are different genres and the scale of the levels is drastically different.

But the comparison actually could be made. The warhawk has that 'easy' control scheme, and then the one where you can make more radical moves. Hawxs is similar to that in a way. You have to toggle on and off the rigid and controlled 'easy' scheme with a button on the controller. The more radical moves are made with this easy mode off (they act like you just turned off an AI governor). Everything is much slower, farther away, and seemingly smaller. You can plan our your evasions and strikes more methodically, whereas with Warhawk good skill comes from snap reactions.

I can't wait for this game. The first one was a pleasant surprise for gamers so use to the dying and often annoying Ace Combat series.

I tried the first one, was a little put off by the controls and actual multiplayer but thought the graphics and combat was pretty good.

I will most likely pick this one up if it has decently good reviews.

Dudebro, I will totally grab that flag and return it to base, if you put a tomahawk missile in my weapon's bay.

wait, so it also has 4 player split screen?

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