If you like air combat games and you can deal with a few flaws, it's a great game to play.

User Rating: 8 | Tom Clancy's HAWX 2 PS3
By crossdudu | Review Date:
HAWX 2 is a great air combat game, but it has a few flaws. The campaign is rather long and it's really challenging and fun, but sometimes it'll seem weird or complicated. There is a good variety of planes and they all look well designed and all have their own differences, flying differently and giving each one an advantage.

The single-player campaign lasts about 8 or 9 hours and although the story is forgettable, it's a lot of fun to fly around with different planes and destroy enemy pilots using different planes and weapons. In most of the missions you have the company of other pilots, but they don't help much. They usually just deal some damage and leave the wounded enemy for you to kill. Playing with other people on the coop mode is just way better. (Read the note at the end)

The ranking system is a nice touch, but it's hard to understand it at first. Each level grants you a token that allows you to unlock passive or active abilities that can only be used during multiplayer matches and planes that you can use to replay missions from the campaign, arcade or survival mode.

The arcade and survival modes are somewhat tricky. They are a nice addition, but aren't explored the right way. The arcade mode offers you a chance to put aside the realism of the single-player campaign and play missions from the story with special additions, such as trading missiles for additional cannons or using different planes. It's an interesting touch and some of the missions are very fun, but others aren't really exciting.

In the survival mode you have to survive 10 waves of enemies, but you don't have to kill them, only survive. You end up forming a mob of more than 20 planes shooting at you plus a bunch of AA guns on the ground while you can't do anything other than run. It's very challenging to win, but perhaps too challenging. In the 6th or 7th wave, it gets annoying because it's almost impossible to kill your enemies or even escape from them.

I give this game an 8 because if you overlook the forgettable story and the difficulty of the survival mode, you'll get a challenging, fun and very balanced air combat game.

NOTE: HAWX 2 includes a co-op mode for the campaign and a multiplayer mode that appear to be very interesting, but I couldn't play either one of those due to the PSN downtime.

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