Product Description

"Though I fly through the Valley of Death, I shall fear no evil. For I am at 80,000-feet and climbing." - SR-71 USAF base (Kadena, Japan)

The setting is 2012. As the era of the nation-state draws quickly to a close, the rules of warfare evolve even more rapidly. More and more nations become increasingly dependent on Private Military Companies (PMCs) - elite mercenaries with a lax view of the law. The Reykjavik Accords further legitimise their existence by authorising their right to serve in every aspect of military operations. There goes the neighbourhood...

Tom Clancy's HAWX is the next-gen console game primed to revolutionise the way we think about combat in the sky. Cutting-edge technology, devastating firepower, and intense dogfights award this new title a deserving place in the prestigious Tom Clancy Franchise.

• Enhanced Reality System (E.R.S): E.R.S. is in-game technology that helps turn novice aviators into elite pilots of the future. The Enhanced Reality System is the backbone of your flight experience: radars and incoming missile detection, damage control system, tactical map and information relay, and weapons trajectory control. E.R.S. also allows you to issue orders to your squadron, making this system as iconic to Tom Clancy's HAWX as the Cross-Com system is to Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter!
• Dual Gameplay: Want to ease into your flight missions and gain a level of comfort? Turn on the assistance mode and take full advantage of your E.R.S. Need to evade your enemy and execute advanced dog-fighting moves? Switch off the assistance mode and feel the adrenalin rushing through your veins as you play in stunning 3rd person views.
• Innovation in Multiplayer: For the first time ever in the Air Combat genre, experience the entire solo campaign in four-player 'jump in' coop mode. In PVP mode, challenge your friends in intense dog-fighting sessions

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1767 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Released on: 2009-03-20
• Platform: Windows XP
• Original language: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish
• Subtitled in: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish

Manufacturer's Description

You've often relied on them in other Tom Clancy games, but for the first time you get to play as an advanced fighter pilot in the most exciting combat flight sim of this generation. Taking the role of a U.S. pilot the game's plot contains elements from both Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 and EndWar as you end up defending the United States from corporate mercenaries.

You start the game as a mercenary yourself, fighting in the Middle East

The F-22 Raptor will have to fight both older planes and brand new prototypes

Play with and against friends in the online multiplayer modes

Dogfighting above mainland America is a stunning experience

Although it features plenty of realistically modelled aircraft and other military vehicles this is an accessible, fast paced arcade action game - not a stuffy simulator. You'll engage dozen of bogeys at a time and never have to worry about running out of missiles, let alone targets.

The unique Enhanced Reality System (ERS) allows you to customise the difficultly level however you want, with a set of pilot assists that let you give control of things like radar, damage control and anti-stall measures to the computer. Or you can simply take control of everything yourself and prove yourself the real top gun.

Key Features

• Xrossover: The first flight sim to be set in the Tom Clancy universe, where you actually provide fire support for one of the missions from Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2.
• Autopilot: Enhanced Reality System handles everything from damage control and incoming missiles to crash prevention and squad commands, so you can get on with the piloting.
• Wingman: Four player co-operative mode lets you create your own virtual squadron of friendly pilots as you collaborate and compete online.
• World tour: Stunning graphics simulate over 12,000 square kilometres of realistically modelled land - from Chicago and New England in the U.S., to Rio, Chile and the Middle East.
• Plane choice: Over 60 licensed aircraft from the F-22 Raptor and Eurofighter to Russian fighters and experimental prototypes - all with fully customisable weapon payloads.

About the Developer: Ubisoft Romania
Based in Bucharest, this was the first Ubisoft studio to be established outside of France. It specialises in simulations such as submarine series Silent Hunter and flight sims Blazing Angels and Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. The company also distributes other publisher's products within Romania.

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Customer Reviews

...remember what games are? GAMES! For fun yeah?
To expand on my heading, this is a GAME! Not an attempt at a real-life reality flight simulator ( which I also play - see Over Flanders Fields - a splendid WW1 airsim ).
This release does what it says on the tin - an aircraft-based flight game!If you take it as presented, it absolutely excels in fun. Top Gun for the noughties. Just don't come in expecting to manage your cannon ripple-time, avoid G-LOC, watching for bingo fuel, Blue-on-Blue incidents, high-alpha manouevres and so on! It ain't Lock On! It comes full of stuff to do in singleplayer ( not tried MP yet ), achievements to get, level up & so on. Graphically it's absolutely bang on top form; my OK-ish PC can run it maxed out - no slideshow framerates here. The PC coders did their work well. NO dodgy Console-to-PC port, no! I've not seen any crashes / glitches / weird bugs yet ( I have applied the one patch released, but the game was A-OK before that too).
For me, it's the best air-fun in a long time! I hope it's not the last!
There's fun in them thar skies!

Good Game - Hopless Filght Simulator
This is a decent shooter action game. A bit of fun and worth having BUT it could have been a lot better with just a few alterations to game play. ie fewer harder enemies and nearer to realistic missile numbers. at one point I was told "this plane has limited missiles" only to find out it had about 300! And I personally would like to have been able to stay in cockpit view in all modes. but its still a good game just a hopeless simulation. For those of you who want a simulation there is only one to go for at the moment. DCS: Black Shark (PC CD) is the new must have combat simulator.

Great arcade game.
Anyone who bought this game thinking they were getting a flight sim obviously hadnt looked into it at all.
This game is a great arcade type game, lots of planes to play with and decent re-playability.
Im glad I bought it.