Back in 2005, Warhawk began life as a tech demo designed to showcase the Sixaxis tilt function and PS3s ability to render hundreds of on-screen aircraft. Two years later, its an almost unrecognizable online Battlefield: Modern Combat tribute with extensive on-foot warfare, available as an online-only game from the PS Store. Warhawks development history might be baffling, but the concept couldnt be easier to grasp - a sign-on, blast-off massively multiplayer online war game, as two sides go
War is hell. Dropping into the hot zone, we spawn with a knife and pistol and quickly race away on foot looking for a more powerful weapon. Lets see - rifles, grenades - wait, how about a tank? Sounds good.
We hop in and take off and immediately have a bogie coming in at 1 oclock, a lead-spitting warplane that dives down close trying to drop a truckload of mines on our head. We leap out of the tank double time, turning around to see it become a shrapnel-spewing fireworks
When we first tried it out at E3, our reaction to Warhawk quickly went from awe to disappointment. Controlling a retro-futuristic jet fighter by tilting the controller was pretty cool, but Warhawk 's producers had promised us a free-form, go-anywhere battlefield, and instead delivered a slow-paced flight simulator.
They finally came through during the Tokyo Game Show, offering up a 10-minute, five-on-five sneak preview of Warhawk's multiplayer team deathmatches, and we couldn't resist taking
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Once the doors of E3 were finally flung opened there was one very obvious destination - a game that not only showed off the power of PS3 but also the tilting and turning abilities of the new pad - Warhawk - and we lunged straight for it.
Within just a few minutes of playing, the game and the pad delivered more surprises than we had expected, even after we had salivated our way through Sony's pre-show conference. And the good news is this: the tilting controls work, and
Sony is resurrecting a fondly remembered (if not exactly well-remembered) game from the early days of the PlayStation, and rumor has it that it'll show up as a PS3 launch title. Warhawk, developed by Twisted Metal creators Incognito, is an airborne shooter that has players flying a retro-futuristic hoverjet through detailed environments packed with moving objects. The original was amazing for its time, and the remake looks poised to repeat that success.
Judging from (what looked like) gameplay
