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The First Gameplay Footage of Hawken

Some wild-looking multiplayer mech combat is coming to the PC from Adhesive Games.

Apr. 6 2011

Posted by: Brad

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Hawken

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WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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Really excited for this one.

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Edited By Macros

Looks interesting


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Hot. Makes me wish Mechwarrior still ran.

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I feel like this is the first I have heard of this game.

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@IamTerics said:
" Hot. Makes me wish Mechwarrior still ran. "
This
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Has a great Masamune Shirow (Ghost in the Shell) look to it. That look alone = Sale!

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Looks awesome. Hope my PC can run it

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FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YEAH!  GET HYPE!

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Wow. 9 dudes made this? Good job, humanity, I believe my faith in you has been redeemed.
That said, I'm a little tired of bland, grimy cities, though the mech-friendly layout helps somewhat.

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@iWonder: 9 dudes did this? Looks like an epic win to me in that case.

I hope the multiplayer is balanced, actually it can be auto-balanceable, as it was in counter-strike (after some years).

9 dudes contact me if you have questions about how to do that ;)
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@Trylks:  Whoops. Just re-watched the first bit of that trailer. For some reason I had remembered the first part as 9 people making it.
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Looks like my kind of game, even though I always played MechWarrior games from third-person view.

Also, this looks like the least offensive use of tower defense mechanics in a non-tower defense game that I've seen.

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@iWonder: yes I noticed that you could be mistaken because of that, then I checked it, and they are actually 9 guys, although probably up to 12 worked on this.


lol at the coincidence.
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 This looks kick ass.  Good job, Adhesive.

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Edited By Lonely_Ogre

Looks like a much better version of G-nome. (Anyone ever play that game?) This looks awesome.

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It has giant robots, so I have to keep an eye on this now.

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Hey, here's that indie game that'll push the envelope.

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Fantastic audio! Looking forward to this one.

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The sound! The glorious sound!

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its amazing what indie studio can do nowadays 

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The cockpit noises made me tense just from the video!

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Edited By shuref00t

The text saying "You Killed ____" reminds me of UT3... but with mechs, which is awesome! And all that brown and gray rendering certainly looks like it's the Unreal Engine.

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Well shit..... that was damn impressive.  Count me interested.

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Edited By Lind_L_Taylor

If it has a campaign then I'll be interested.  I don't give two shits
for that multiplayer.   Seems like every other FPS out there, just
extra armor missiles.  The whole video game market seems to
just be offering same-old FPS style gaming in different
environments without really changing anything else to it to
make it all that different.  Might as well call it MW: Mechs.

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Good looking mech game.

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This is the mechwarrior game that I was hoping for.
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Looks cool

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Good golly Miss Molly.

I must have this game.

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Edited By GrandMarshal

Why can’t there be a mech game where you are in a mech fighting aliens or dragons or something, mech on mech action is normally kind of dull just two mechs circle strafing each other till one explodes.  Mech vs mech should just be the boss fights or something

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Looks good for a small team production, and I hope it's a success because I think the sequel could be much better.  A game like this really needs destructive environments otherwise it's just another slow moving FPS.  I wouldn't expect that to be accomplished by such a small production team, but hopefully, a sequel might have a larger staff or a bigger budget and that game feature could be included.  I'm just not getting any sense of size because of the lack of collateral damage. 

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Holy fucking shit. Makes you wonder about the productivity (lack of) in those hundred-men teams we're seeing more of nowadays.

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One problem I'd have with this is that with the mechs being built with all kinds of things all over it, not being able to see around the mech might result in areas where you cannot go somewhere since your back arm cannons are stuck on something or jumping error due to something right above you.

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If only this was Front Mission.

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Certainly can't deny how impressive this looks.

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This game looks so good I'm actually annoyed that it's a FPS deathmatch.

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Seen this last month, still though I'm really happy its getting the hype it deserves now <3

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Wow, the sound, animation, the wrecked city, all look great.


Also I'm sold on just about anything with giant robots. 
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This looks and sounds fucking awesome... I hope my new laptop will run this...

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Edited By kotetsu

Since no word on Mechwarrior 5 yet, this'll have to do (and to be honest, any mech game wil do since its been so freakin long). This match seemed like a mix of Attrition and TD, but not much team coordination which i think would have benefitted the trailer more.

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@shuref00t
The text saying "You Killed ____" reminds me of UT3... but with mechs, which is awesome! And all that brown and gray rendering certainly looks like it's the Unreal Engine.
They probably made it with the UDK, and left the Unreal Tournament font there
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as long as there is a lot of customerization of the mechs and plenty of different maps, i'm sold

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Gentlemen, we have achieved boner.

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Edited By ComradeKhan

I've been playing alot of Armored Core 4 online against my friends lately since there is not a whole lot o games in that genre lately... I might have to check this out.