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Unique experience on consoles

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty good. It's a lot of fun and the developers continue to support their product with improvements and expansion packs. If you like using vehicles, especially flying, while also being able to have ground combat, this is a great game. It'll be popular for a long time to come so due to the unique experience, so you'll definitely get a lot of game play out of this title. Really great price if you don't have a headset.

Best of the Best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Having played video games since the 80s, once owning a 2600, Intellivision, Colecovision, Genesis, Neo Geo, NES, SuperNES, N64, PS1, PS2, Xbox, Xbox360, and more, and being no kid, I would say that without doubt this is the very best game I have ever played. When playing on-line you have the option to join a large or small slaughterhouse type game, or if you prefer, you can join a more strategic game of waiting and planning, or a combination of both. Every game is totally different from the last. You can concentrate on air battle, ground assault, defensive strategies, racing your jeep or tank to capture the flag, just shooting down Warhawks, and a thousand other possible choices.

There is a vast array of weapons to choose from to take down your opponent and no one weapon could be considered inferior. You can take down a Warhawk as a foot soldier with a portable missile launcher, snipe guys in bases, or lay mines to cream a tank. There are many game locations, or maps, and many variations on these maps. Every game is a totally new experience and you will quickly become addicted to the on-line 32 player version.

As far as multiplayer, no game can compare. You can play 1 player, or 4 player split screen and then join an on-line battle with four friends at your home. Making this the ultimate PS3 "party game", as strange as that sounds. Next Gen games that allow multiplayer, multiplayer on-line, are fun, and are highly rated are not as common as you might think. I have seen both men and women enjoy this game immensely. (You will probably want a large screen TV for multiplayer split screen on-line play.)

As far as some other reviews indicating that this is all played by kids; Sure, there are lots of young ones you can sometimes hear in the game babble (headset can be used to organize your team but is not required to play effectively), but many of these kids are not just good, but obviously understand many subtle strategies or war simulations. If you find it embarrassing to be mowed down, chased, mined or knifed by some 10 year old then maybe you should start some other hobby like ship bottle building or alphabetizing your screwdrivers and Torx wrenches. You will see players at all levels from beginners, to "family" groups, to others that will specifically hunt you down in a large multiplayer game just 'cause you have a funny screen name or shot them down one time by accident. That is the magic of this game. It is never the same and you lean new tricks every game. There is a very high replay value.

Great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I really like the game, it's really fun to play, It haves the bluetooth headset, it's a great add on, If you like online playing, it's a must.

3 out of 4

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Well this game had 3 out of 4 elements to war.all it needs is some sea battle and this game will be the total package.the is a excellent bargain to have a good online game and a headset. Take the fight on foot,jeep,tank and even the sky the choice is yours.

Online Mayhem

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First let me start off by saying that if you're a fan of online shooters or a fan of any fast-paced game, Warhawk is the game for you. For a game with no single player campaign you'll cut your teeth online immediately. Warhawk features a very basic story - two civilizations at all out war - what basically boils down to red vs. blue. From there you're free to play whatever you want - Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Zones (control parts of the map with your team to win), and Capture the Flag. Whatever you choose you'll notice that the game features relatively few maps - only five of them - with several variations and sizes. While this may sound short lived, its actually the opposite that holds true. You'll quickly realize the game offers something different for everyone - do you play defense and guard your base or do you jump in a tank for a frontal assault against the enemy? Or you could jump in a Warhawk (the games namesake and aircraft) and battle in the skies. Really, no two matches I've had have been identical. Warhawk features a terrific stat tracking mechanism to keep track of every kill, death and shot you've made in the game. It also features a leveling system that will literally take years to achieve the top ranks and a reward system of badges, ribbons and medals. Graphically the game is not the PS3's best looking game but its gorgeous in its own way. The impressive fact is that the game runs at 720p while having 32 simultaneous online players. The only shortfall to an otherwise very solid game would have to be the occasional network problems that seem to restart servers at random and some problems with players being promoted to higher ranks without earning the necessary points. On both counts the developer has made major improvements with the release of a patch.

blew my mind !!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have played video games for decades now, I mean I basically got started with Pong on Atari, and by now tend to know my way around games quite well, or so I thought. Anyway, I personally tend to favor FPS and for me COD4 was simply as good as it could get, I actually got quite good at it.

I must admit I had never before played online, and also hadn't realized this game was online only. So I buy the thing, stick it in the PS3 and suddenly realize there is no single player option. So I say, well what the hell, I already bought the game, might as well give it a go, so I go online, and the next thing I know is that I'm suddenly a foot soldier in the middle of, well, how can I put this ... chaos, mayhem, Armageddon. all I could see were things being blowing up, soldiers running around all over the place, shooting each other, planes flying low firing missiles, machine guns, jamming jeeps or people, dropping bombs, grenades going off, tanks firing all over the place it was INSANE !!!!!!! So there I was, dazzled by all this, and basically just sitting there taking it all in when suddenly someone runs up to me and knifes me, and kills me !!!!! less than 30 seconds had gone by, and I was dead, I couldn't believe it !!!!. So there I was sitting on my sofa, my mind stunned by the apocalyptic scene I had seen, and by the fact I could do nothing to prevent from getting killed.

I mean, it's honestly not an easy game to master, for example the teams are the are reds and blues, and at that point I didn't even know what color I was. At around the nth iteration of me being killed in seconds, I got the hang of first selecting newbie games, which of course is where one should start playing, and then went for some online help as to how to learn to play this game, which in all reality generally just goes as far as saying it's just a matter of time and practice, and truthfully it is.

After about two hours and some no small degree of frustration I started to get the hang of it, and quite frankly have become addicted, and not all that bad at it either. This game feels like a real battle, not that I've ever been in one nor would want to be in one, but the reality of it all is simply amazing.

Being able to interact with other people, honk the horn and someone jumps on the jeeps turret, people jump around when you capture a flag, gang up and go attack the other team's HQ. It's simply unbelievable, the graphics are amazing, it's absolutely real time, no lags, the strategy and game play options are pretty much limitless. You can just hang back and defend, go fully offensive, snipe from somewhere well hidden, go about mine laying, or just slug it out for control of a small plot of land.

I have never ever in my long years played anything remotely like this, the interaction, the realism, the fact that it's real people you're going up against (probably all much younger than me though) just makes it mind blowing. I've actually had to set myself strict time limits for this game, I mean I do have a real life I must see to after all. But every spare half hour I've had the last four weeks I've played Warhawk. Oh and flying that Warhawk is just amazing, what a machine, well it does get some getting used to, and some is quite an understatement, you really need to get some hours in that cockpit before you're any good, and not get blown to pieces after 10 seconds in the thing.

Tanks are awesome, great firepower, from a distance you can make some pretty good damage and up close, if you're quick enough and aim well you can take out pretty much anything, Warhawks, ground infantry (you can actually just run them over), turrets, the lot. 4x4's are quick, nimble, great for having a go at a flag or controlling zones, and you can take two more with you which is really handy against more than one enemy.

This is sincerely the best game I have ever played, by far, and more than half the fun is the fact that your opponents and accomplices are real humans, not just dumb AI's. I mean even if it's kids, who cares, they are good at this and you help them out, and they help you out and it's all for the team. What is also amazing is that you can actually have one on one battles while all hell is breaking loose. At some point I was being spawned on some zone my team held, but a sniper was getting me all the time (probably some preteen little bastard), he must have killed me at least six times the same way (hey I was learning to play), so somehow I managed to get away, to sneak up on him and then oh so enjoyed getting back at him with my knife, next thing I know he spawns real close to me and we spend most of that half hour just killing each other, it was actually great fun.

What can I say, I can just go on and on and on about this game, it's simply amazing, really, buy it, go online, give it some time and you'll get the hang of it, I'm chief sergeant now and haven't actually played for too long and I truly enjoy every single minute of it. One other thing, you can choose to go into pretty much empty battle zones and practice flying the Warhawk, or just doing anything really, I have found this has helped me quite a lot in learning to use all the weapons you can find in the game.

Great game but not enough levels

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game is great and every thing is balanced such as a warhawk (which is a plane) can kill a anti air turret and that infantry armed only with a pistol, knife and grenades can kill a tank especially if there are enough of them. The only problem with this game is that there are few maps (but they can be changed in size to make them different) and that there isn't a single player mode. The most fun you will have playing this game however will be playing it split-screen with a friend.

At this point if you're over 13, don't bother with on-line play!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: February 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my husband for his birthday, as he had played the other (2?) games and loved them. It was also a bonus that it came with the free headset because he had Call of Duty and plays on-line all the time. WARNING to those of you that like the original game this was based off of....it's *nothing* like that! The airplanes are very unmanueverable, and there is no "story line" part of the game.
The worst part was after taking a couple of hours to figure out the basic movements of the vehicles, my hub got online to find the game is dominated pretty much by children. I wouldn't even buy this game for the headset if I were you!

Just another shooter

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: December 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

At the time of writing, there are 45 reviews at 4 stars or greater. I bought this game based on the reviews expecting a pretty outstanding shooter. After a couple days of play I'm just not feeling it.

Firstly, there's not a lot to speak to for this game. Graphically, it's good, but not anything to write home about. It certainly shouldn't be a make or break for anyone. I did immediately notice that the font for death/kill notification and for the server list is a pain to read on a big screen from across the room. I've got perfect vision, but the color/font combination is nasty. This makes my spray and pray game a bit less effective because I will likely miss my kill message when I lob a grenade into a blind spot. That's really the only visual issue I can find.

The game is 100% player vs player combat. You can play online, or you can play with 4 of your friends in your living room or more with daisy chained playstations. There are no bots or AI of any kind. I went in knowing this so it wasn't a shock, but I still find it a little hard to wrap my head around. I find it unfathomable that I'll have a couple people over so we can play this game 2vs2 or 1vs1, because at that scale there's no real fun to be had on even the smallest maps. I find it even more unlikely that someone will pull their giant PS3 out of their entertainment center and over to my house for a PS3 Warhawk LAN party. It'd make for a nifty commercial or add campaign I suppose. The lack of so much as a basic AI to shoot at with a few friends while you knock back a couple beers feels like more than a slight oversight. It feels like task left undone.

The game play itself is... well it's an shooter with vehicles. Your soldier and your warhawk can pick up weapons to add to their arsenal from the environment. They are easy to find as they are floating above the ground and easily identifiable. Soldier gets the standard fare, the only couple you might not see in every fps is the flamethrower and the land mine. The warhawk has a variety of missiles to suit the prey you are hunting along with countermeasures. The other vehicles (tanks, jeeps) do not appear to be modifiable, and have the standard cannon and heavy machine gun respectively. Controls for the vehicles are fairly intuitive and require a very short learning curve to manage effectively.

The Warhawk is the major focus of the game. Many people find it difficult to use them lethally when they first begin playing online and many people tout a steep learning curve to be able to fly them well. I found that it was decent when I hopped in one, and with some effort I could have become dangerous. Even so, it couldn't keep my interest long enough to put the effort into upping my game.

The battle scenarios are standard fps, deathmatch/team deathmatch and capture the flag seem to be the most popular. The maps are nice, and provide lots of hiding places and cover. The environment is largely indestructible, save for a couple boxes and fuel tanks which is par for the course.

Finally, it comes with a bluetooth headphone. I haven't used it. I may at some point, but at the moment I have no urgent need to have a squeaky pre-teen spouting newfound profanity and racial slurs funneled directly into my head.

If you are looking for a console shooter on par with the online gaming experiences of something like UT or perhaps Halo for your PS3, this may be the game you have been looking for. For anyone looking for a game to play with friends and family in meatspace with some occasional online play, you'll probably want to give this one a pass.

Lousy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 47
Date: October 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Die-hard PS3 admirer here... I was excited about WarHawk until I tried to play it for the first time... the gameplay is terrible. Even if if you're a diehard war monger I don't think you'll find much to love here... don't be misled thinking its a combat flight-sim either...

Truly disappointed.

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