Ubisoft are famous for their massive Tom Clancy series. They have secured the rights to all of the Tom Clancy properties and they are already showing us what they have in the pipe line for aerial combat lovers.
If your a PS3 owner and want to play some Ace Combat (which will probably come out for the PS3 eventually) look no further than Ubisoft’s new jet sim, Tom Clancy’s HAWX. In HAWX you get to pilot a lot of planes, 50 in fact, and that’s a lot of planes for a pilot game. HAWK will be set in the future, in 2012 to be exact, in a world dependant on private military companies (PMCs).
Planes in HAWX will come equipped with ERS (Enhanced Reality System), which is basically auto pilot. What ERS does is detects incoming missiles, prevents you from crashing with an anti-crash system, controls your damage, includes radar and tactical maps, and gives you commands to send to your AI squadron. You don’t have to play with ERS turned on, you can turn it off. This way you will have greater control over your plane and more freedom.
Ubisoft have always been great in terms of enabling co-op features in their games. HAWX offers four player jump in co-op through the story mode (as seen in Vegas 2). 16 players can battle it out online for EXP points and in-game cash which are used to unlock new things such as weapons.
Here are some in-game screenshots of HAWX:
And here’s a trailer:
