The second of Tom Clancy's aerial warfare games was always going to have a tough act to follow, after the suprise success of HAWX 1. The storyline follows a fairly predictable storyline – Crack team of fighter pilots, best in the world. For hire. Good vs Evil.. Nuclear threats and bombs. Giants mutant snowmen. Ok, fine, I made that last one up.
Unfortunately, the game fails to deliver in many areas – the graphical content of the game looks somewhat 10 years ago, the soundtrack is.. well, a standard plane game. The game controls are too twitchy, and extremely slow to react in some areas. The weapons promise a wide range of abilities, but deliver very little. Some longer range ones are virtually impossible to effectively use, due to the twitchy and unsmooth controls of the game.
The game however, is pretty fun. During the (short as a lifespan of a Premier League manager), single player mode – there is a wide range of missions for you to deal with – as well as on plane gun turret shooting, there is actually different types of missions, as well as a compelling last mission too. But, as I always find with most warfare games – the game is just far too short. By the time you feel involved in the game, its over. And to me, there is very little want to replay the game, even on a more difficult setting. I am not highly interested in planes, so had no determination to unlock different planes.
Online, despite having promise of an open ended dog fight, the game is poorly designed in the online aspects. The default plane is a slow bomber, and its not always at the forefront of your mind to change your plane type, There is no prompt, which inhibits the want of people playing online, who have to constantly quit back out of the game to re choose a plane that is faster then the snail in prit-stick , and manoeuvrable as Rik Waller on a segway default. I played 1- games online, and enjoyed about 2 of them. There is just something decidedly unfinished about the online game.
All in all though, it would be a lie to say I didn't enjoy the game at all. It has its charms, and it will no doubt delight the hardcore plane enthusiasts... until the next Ace Combat comes out.
Rating – 6/10
Fair Price - £18.99
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