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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.

I feel gipped

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 23
Date: September 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I don't feel this game is worth the 60 bucks I paid for it. I realize I will be flamed for saying this, as fans (and I am one, just a little disgruntled at the moment) can get a little protective of their console, however just I needed to say this. Heres a list of my complaints:

1. The controls are awful. I just can't say it any other way. The warhawk over-responds to movements, while vehicles like the tank hardly respond at all. I keep having to try and correct my warhawk in flight, ending up with me flying in a squiggly line before a missile hits me and I blow up. Its kind of pathetic to see, and just leads to great frustration. I also have difficulty driving the tank because it doesn't seem to respond to the motion sensor at all, and I turn in ridiculously wide arcs, and end up smashing into buildings or falling off cliffs. I can understand the programmers wanting to incorporate the motion sensor into the game's controls, however they did a very poor job of it. Other players seem to have gotten the hang of it, judging by their obvious playing skill, however I am simply not willing to spend 10 hours just learning how to properly move around in a game. Its just not fun.

2. The damage/fighting system needs to be more balanced. ONE missile is all it takes to destroy the warhawk - the games most feared and dreaded weapon. I havent gotten a single kill with the warhawk after a couple days of playing the game, yet ive been blown up in it countless times. Yes - there are countermeasures and neat spins and dives you can do to try and escape a missile, but in order to do this you need to already have a perceptive grasp of the warhawk's controls (refer to my first complaint). I feel they should increase the warhawks armor, make it so a warhawk can just barely survive one missile, so it would be burning, but still flying. Then they would be a little more useful, especially to new players. Ground weapons could use a few tweaks as well. I would like to see the flame thrower do more fire damage, maybe make fire cling to people when they get hit, and do timed damage to them. I tried flaming a bunch of people by swinging its fire stream in an arc, and catching them all at one, and it didnt work. Of course this is nitpicking - just a minor complaint, but wasn't realistic physics a feature of the ps3?

3. Fans have had issues with other reviews citing a lack of a single player - they say its not fair when they are reviewing a MULTIPLAYER game. Well what about a tutorial? Even a little one-level newbie course explaining movement and different game modes? It wouldn't take much, and would make the game easier on new players. The community is terrible on people who don't know what their doing. The free jabra's included with all the retail boxes just mean theres that much more people swearing at you when you screw up. Im serious.

I think these three complaints are my major issues with the game, After playing it for a couple days I just couldn't play it anymore without getting more and more frustrated. I deleted the game data, and the game is now sitting on a shelf and is doomed to collect dust. I have a headset though. Headsets are nice.

Unbelievably low quality

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 13
Date: September 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I want to like this game.

The gameplay is balanced, and it's probably as good as any other online game (barring the technical problems I'm having), which is a major bit of praise. However, the content is pathetically tiny when compared against Halo or Resistance or any game I can think of. I same this entire game in about 20 minutes. It's so small. But in that small universe the gameplay is good. The levels have a lot of detail and all the vehicles are well balanced.

There are only a few levels. They've made more, but will sell them later (this is obvious from the menu system). There are only a few weapons, and all of them are boring weapons you find in every game. Generic machine gun. Bland pistol. Knife. A rocket launcher. Snore. They will sell more of these weapons later too. The names of the vehicles ("Medium Tank") indicate that more vehicles were made but also will be sold later. Those who tracked the progress of this game know that there were some fascinating components made that we just didn't get. Huge airships launching fighters. A story. Levels. Single player mode. All this is gone, though the game released very late. This is a Playstation 3 game that is smaller than many Playstation 1 games. I downloaded it in about 15 minutes. It's smaller than the Virtua Tennis Demo, it's smaller than that Duck Demo.

I would prefer if the expansion pack came after I was bored with a full game instead of me buying a skeleton that I have to pay to clothe... but, it wasn't a big secret and I bought the game despite these issues. This game was reduced to a very small multiplayer mode, and I bought it for that mode.

Too bad multiplayer mode barely works either. Sorting through servers is clumsy and counter intuitive. I spent about twenty minutes trying to log into a game just now (which motivated me to review it on amazon... heh talk about being passive aggressive); each sever I tried was at less than half capacity (for example: "4 players in/24 players max"), and each would give me the same false "game full" error. I've looked into it; this is a common error and there is no update solution being discussed.

There is a major problem saving "Achievement" type data used to rank players and give badges, etc. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. All service was off for a few hours on September 7, and we were told the game would now work perfectly. Now, it does seem to save my data half the time (when playing ranked servers). It's just random about whether it will work or not. But compounding all my problems is that when they updated the system on the 7th they gave me a ridiculous promotion (I was given one of the highest ranks, though I had only played on a ranked server twice and killed maybe 5 players). Since many games refuse to allow high ranked players, and I already couldn't log into games due to the "game full" error 90% of the time, it's now almost impossible for me to play this game, and I am sick of it. I have many online games and I have never had a problem on any of them, so it's not the PS3 or the network.

This is just totally shoddy. A shame too, because it is quite fun to play when it's working. Not a light year ahead or anything. In fact, maybe an inch above the multiplayer mode tacked on to full games with stories. This game isn't as good a value as those even after they fix these problems.

They left out a huge amount of content, and what they didn't delete doesn't work. Do not buy this game until it works. Probably closer to Christmas.

Nice Environment but something is missing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: January 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game really open a new kind of video game due to the multiplayer mode. The fact that you really know that your enemies or friends are really other people playing around the world makes you feel in any situation. The game has some scenarios but once you know the game; I mean playing the different modes like team deatchmatch or capture the flag it becomes boring because you can go then for medals, medals, and medals and spend days fighting to get a good score... so basically once you know the game you end it. Other thing... The connection with the servers war really annoying. I though that the cause was my connection, but COD4 just work well.

This is a good game, but has some major design flaws.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 16 / 32
Date: September 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Warhawk for PS3 is a good game. The online experience creates a very fast paced game environment which is ruined by "glitchers, and cheaters." None the less, I enjoy playing Warhawk very much. Also, the ranking up system leaves a bit to be desired. The game proports to have customizable look and feel for your character and aircraft, however you can only unlock these things after ranking up, which appears to be tedious at best. I got a couple of rank ups quickly, but was soon disappointed by the unlocked items. Honestly, I'd rather have had the game content unlocked from the start.

From their literature "You can play the game however you want..." implying that you could always choose to drive a tank or always be a ground troop. However they fail to mention that you'll never make it past certain ranks if this is how you want to play the game, and you won't unlock all of the content. So, let me say this to Insomnia Games, "You can't have it both ways, choose to say that you can customize your stuff, or choose to say you can play it any way you want, you can't say both the way it is currently setup."

What this state of affairs leads to: Cheating, glitching, and rank up servers. These servers are dedicated to getting people rank up. I was reading one forum about flag throwing, so you can increase the number of points you get per game, and I also experienced the "tank" glitch myself personally. This kind of behavior is of course frowned on by the server administrators. I can't help but think that originally this game probably was going to have a mission oriented single player campaign in which you could also gain rank, and it was scrapped at the last minute because it was too much work, and the deadline was coming up for release.

So lets take stock in what we really have. We have a bunch of hosted games, with fast and furious battles, on a very small number of maps. This means that the folks in the beta test know these maps so well that new players have a very hard time playing. Every little trick and nook or cranny in the map is known very well. The learning curve is steep, and the controls of the airplane are not configurable enough. I would be very happy if you could customize the look inversion on the gunsight for the airplane, but you can't, so I constantly look the wrong way with the guns. So what do we have? 4 maps, 3 game types. I can tell you now it will tire quickly as you are repeatly blown up by people who know the maps by the back of their hands.

Sincerely,

Ira Carmel.

Not as good as it could be.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: September 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Pros:
1. Online Play with voice capability.
2. This is a good game and the graphics are good and match the trailer that we all saw on the PS3.

Cons:
1. There is no backstory at all.
There are red teams and blue teams, but no difference other than minor cosmetic differences.

2. You gain weapons by flying through hoops, the could have made it more interesting.

Where Are The Bots?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I knew going into this game that there would not be any bots. Unfortunately, when playing offline with a number of others, this becomes a liability, as the maps are too large to afford one to not pilot a Warhawk. Since the controls of the Warhawk don't seem that compelling to me, I'm more likely to jump into a vehicle, but again, with the maps as large as they are, no sooner do you get to an area in offline mode than you realize that the action has now moved to some other location.

If I could take the offline split-screen possibilities of Warhawk and marry them to the graphics, weapons, bots, and vehicles of UT3, I would have the perfect game in every respect. As it is I just have a game that is nothing special when my friends or my sons friends come to visit.

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.

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!

Not to shabby

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It took me a while to get this game. I didn't like the fact that it was a multiplayer only. It would of been nice to maybe be able to play the different game types with bots also. The graphics are nice and the draw distance is fantastic since some of the maps are huge. It is fun playing with others however, since you can make plans on how to attack the other team and all. Someone like me, though, I only get to play maybe a few times a month, so I don't get to practice much. There are people that play waaaay too much and therefore are very good at the game. Sometimes, this can make the game boring because you die too much. I think there are connection issues as well. I've gone around flying in the warhawk and will hit other warhawks six or seven times and they keep going. I get hit by one missle and I'm gone. The controls are hard to use, but I'm a PC FPS person.

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