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Saturday, June 11, 2011

Starhawk

Starhawk is different from Warhawk. Warhawk is primarily a flying multiplayer game released several years ago for the PS3.

Starhawk is a 3rd person shooter with elements of Warhawk built in. To me, the game looks like a more front lines version of the old school RTS. Build buildings and bunkers and bases and destroy your enemy, but in this you are on the ground fighting.

You can run around on foot, in vehicles and even control Mechs that can, on-the-fly, turn into airplanes.


I don't know why, but it gives me the original HALO Blood Gultch vibe and that's never a bad thing.


1 comment:

  1. I wish I could watch the gameplay from a drop down video, so I could get a sense of scale and strategy style.

    I really like the concept of the RTS weaved into the shooter, but it makes it sem really busy to me. The thing that made Halo's CTF so enticing was that it was simple, and the objective was easy to see and obvious. Very rarely was, 'drive up and shoot everything that moves' a sound tactic to employ, which seemed to be a lot of what was going on in here.

    Regardless, consider me interested. Team based, cooperative gameplay has always been a personal favorite, especially capture the flag. I'd just like to see the gameplay in more depth, or play a demo or something.

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