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IGN: Hands On With H.A.W.X.

Linkin Park Fan | May 26, 2008 | Previews | PC Playstation 3 
From the creators of Ghost Recon bring you a spin off series of the game. You will not be playing as Scott Micheal but as the Air Force team in the story line. IGN got a chance to play Tom Clancy's HAWX. The game will be released this September.
For years, Namco Bandai has owned the console skies with its Ace Combat series. Finally, a worthy challenger has appeared and put Ace combat in its sites. Ubisoft's latest Tom Clancy title, HAWX (High-Altitude Warfare Experimental Squadron) is a welcome blending of simulation and arcade fun. With a whopping 50 licensed planes and the use of real satellite data, HAWX certainly brings with it the authenticity we've come to expect from a Tom Clancy game.

Coming this September to PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, HAWX offers up intense -- and often deadly -- dogfights and a true challenge for those wishing to prove themselves to be Top Gun material. Using GOI satellite data, Ubisoft is able to ensure the areas you fly over are the real deal. When we took to the skies to battle an onslaught of MIGs in Rio De Janeiro, the entire topography was exact to the real life locale. And yes, even the famed statue of Jesus was standing, arms outstretched, at the mountain top. And no, we did not try and shoot it down. Ubisoft describes the use of GOI data as "flying over Google Earth on crack." We're inclined to agree.

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    Donnelly | May 26, 2008
    It was Mitchell, not Michael that you played as in GRAW.


    And speaking of GRAW, they should've made the 3rd instead of this.
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      Linkin Park Fan | May 26, 2008
      My bad, I knew it something like that. But yeah a 3rd GRAW would have been good.
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    bk man | May 26, 2008
    OOOH! I really liked the idea of Ghost Recon, and now there is this! I thought that it was a Tony Hawk game, but it might be better!
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    TurMoiL911 | May 26, 2008
    After playing Ace Combat 6, I'm really starting to like the flight simulation games that the 360 is getting.

    I can't wait to see some gameplay footage of this game soon. A demo would be awesome.

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