【お勧め度】　　★★★★☆
【プレイ時間】　７時間程度
【難易度】　　　ノーマル

全１９ステージあり、何やらストーリがあるみたいだが英語なのでチンプンカンプン
最初の数ステージはチュートリアルを兼ねており、ステージ５でアシストモードＯＦＦができる。

ライトユーザーにはアシストモードＯＮで比較的楽に楽しくプレイできると思う。
コアユーザー的には不明。
ロックされミサイルで狙われれば親切に回避コースを教えてくれたりするので
ミサイルをガンガン撃たれてわけわからず死ぬことはないと思う。

とにかく、やっていて綺麗に相手にミサイルを当てれることができたときが楽しい。

最後に日本語ではないので、少しでも不明なことあったら素直にWikiなどを見ることを勧める。
ステージ１５は本当に最初わけわからず酷い目にあったので・・・

マクロス、特に初代やマクロスプラスが好きな人に是非やってもらいたいゲーム。近年乱発されたPSPやPS3のマクロスゲームよりもマクロスらしく、VFX2に近い物を感じます

序盤ミッションを終えるまでは機能が制限されていてアシストに沿った下らないリング潜りのような状態が続きますが、中盤以降アシストオフが追加され一般的なフライトシミュよりも何歩か離れた視点から自機を視認しながらより高機動な操作が可能になります

これが所謂「板野サーカス」に非常に近い見栄えでスリリングな航空戦を楽しむことができます。Information HighやDog Fight、またFire Bomberなんかを聴きながらプレイすると変形こそできませんが至高のマクロス気分を味わえちゃいます

難点としてはアンロックに時間がかかる、同ジャンルの他作と比べてどうもミッションが地味、音楽も凡庸な点でしょうか。戦闘機マニアの方からすればモデリングや機体装備も納得がいかないそうです

Arcade-style aerial-combat game. The game has plenty to offer for single player, but it doesn't offer much in the way of competitive multiplayer content.

From a distance and up high in the altitude, the environments--which are created with real satellite data--look beautiful. Natural landscapes and expanses of water are incredibly lifelike, and city skylines are nicely detailed. But if you fly too low, the illusion is shattered. The planes are the game's stars, and each one is modeled realistically with great attention to detail. Light bounces off of wings, afterburners glow with blistering heat, missiles launch in clouds of smoke, and explosions serve as a gorgeous reminder of just how much power you have at your command.

I gotta warn that the keyboard and Mouse controls have a steep learning curve. Since this is pretty much an arcade-ish title, you should give it a shot with a controller instead.


+Visually, the game looks nice, mostly.
+Realistic planes and environments (from distance and high altitude only).
+Great, action-packed dogfighting
+Good gameplay.
+Experience point, challenge system, stats, and unlocks help out keeping things interesting.

-DirectX 10 very unstable on Modern Windows OS (Running in Windows Vista Compatibility Mode solved my crashes).
-Poor porting from consoles.
-Low replayability value (especially if you played and finished the game on Hardest setting).
-Poor voice acting.
-Uninspired mission design.
-Typos on the subtitles.
-Limited multiplayer modes.
-Ground textures look ugly up close.
-Planes handle mostly all similarly.
-Planes are flying VERY slowly (something you wouldn't expect especially for a arcade-ish game).
-Friendly AI is weak (you're better of handling every battles yourself!).


Tom Clancy’s HAWX is very close to being a great game; it’s just missing a few of the intricate pieces that create an enthralling experience. As it is the mission design is lacking, the combat is unimaginative, and the multiplayer is shallow.


With all the many negatives listed above, I still recommend this game since the game is pretty cheap nowadays. If you love arcade-sim combat games, sure give HAWX a try! But I did played better games before and you may look at other alternatives to suite your aerial-combat needs!

To my expectation-- and delight-- the gameplay was very similar to Ace Combat games that predate Assault Horizon.

Zip around in fighter planes armed with 60+ missiles, maneuver to shoot down other planes, bomb targets on land & sea, avoid missiles, and protect assets in escort/protection missions.



I personally didn't care for the Enhanced Reality System or [Assistance-]OFF MODE, and did not use them outside of the two missions that absolutely required the player to use them.

The game seemed to favor the 3rd person camera. It was the default view. I prefer dashboard/cockpit views in my air combat games, and OFF MODE forces the camera to a 3rd person perspecitve. Kind of an immersion-breaker there.

Disappointingly, this means it is impossible to perform a manual stall as a tactical maneuver in the first person view.



A rather major complaint I have with the cockpit view is that it is missing the pitch/roll and bearing indicators on the dashboard HUD. Instead, it is completely blank! This requires the player to actually use the artificial horizon and compass on the instrument panel.

While this may seem like a good idea for immersion, they are hard to quickly read at a glance and are different on every plane. That's appropriate for an in-depth flight combat simulator, not a more arcade-style flight combat game like HAWX. Even then, the HUD on the dashboard would display that information for a pilot.

Additionally, airspeed and altitude are displayed on-screen anyway, so it's not as though they left out the pitch/roll and bearing indicators for immersion. So this seems more like a mistake than an intentional game mechanic. This was not fixed in HAWX2, from what I've seen in screenshots.

Thankfully, the game has a "flying camera" perspective similar to Ace Combat's default view, which displays pitch, roll and bearing in addition to airspeed and altitude.



The plane variety was more than adequate. Overachieving, even. For instance: The SR-71 'Blackbird' is available, but no missions require its specialization; Strategic Reconnaissance. Though I suppose it has no place in any flight combat game, what with being an unarmed spyplane that was effectively replaced by satellites.



The story was rather lackluster. No character development of the wingmen, no fantastic superweapons to conquer, and the final mission didn't feel like a final mission at all. Maybe this is just Tom Clancy's flavor of "real fiction", or maybe Ace Combat's strangereal world events set my expectations too high.



Overall: TOTALLY DECENT, and the best Ace Combat clone I've played thus far. However, I found it rather difficult to not constantly compare HAWX to Ace Combat. In fact, I dare say that my single favorite thing about HAWX is that it made me decide to whip out my PlayStation 2 and replay its Ace Combat games.

Ubisoft is known for their DRM, However i haven't noticed any problems with H.A.W.X. The game does not have to start from the uplay interface and the game is a solid good game. Some functions in the game are abit off if you ask me (like the assistance off mode or the ESM mode).

Players that loves the Ace Combat series should be check out the game (Videos, demo if possible) before buying it imo. Its a good game, it's just not Ace Combat good.

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. was heavily influenced by Ace Combat series. Unfortunately, creators decided they want more serious approach, which led to generic mission types (escort this, defend that) instead of craziness of Ace Combat.
Graphics still holds up good enough when you are in the sky (planes are gorgeous), but textures of terrain near ground is so bad, you'll try to maintain your altitude high enough all the time.
H.A.W.X. features leveling up system, which unlocks new planes and loadouts for them. But after finishing game on hardest difficulty with all "fun" challenges (aka kill "x" enemy with "y" weapon) you'll get only to level 27 of 40. And will stop there, because multiplayer community is pretty much not existent after all this years.

Overall, it is very far from the best games in this genre, but still enjoyable experience if you are open to forgive some flaws.

It may not live up to Ace Combat, but its defenitly better than Assault Horizon.

An arcade flight combat game based in the Tom Clancy universe, featuring a wide range of obsolete, current, prototype, and tech demonstration aircraft fieldable in objective-based missions which serve as scripted, yet epic showpieces.

• Lack of support and updates may, at worst, prevent DX10 from running.
  
• Tightly scripted events based on objective completion, artificially changing the flow of battle.
  
• Multiplayer requires account with game publisher.
  
• Game insults your abilities and intelligence as a flight sim player.
  
• Some graphical effects and fidelity show their age.
  
• Mouse and Keyboard controls are awful.
  
• Ubisoft

• You get to roflstomp squadrons of aircraft...
  
• ...batallions of ground forces...
  
• ...and fleets of naval units...
  
• ...while stalling at terminal velocity...
  
• ...breaking the laws of physics, aerodynamics, and human stresses...
  
• ...whilst piloting a YF-12 Blackbird prototype...
  
• ...to the tune of some arguably epic music...
  
• ...and it's awesome!
  
  If you like some simple and stupid fun, buy this game.

A simple arcade combat flight sim this game does what it should do and that is provide you with a lot of fun, making you feel like you are the best damn pilot in the world and punnishes you when you manage to get over that edge.

Worth playing with a hotas settup and good for a few hours of fun and more. If you are looking into these games buy this one as the second one is not on the same level.

A fairly good arcade flying game. Great fun to play co-op (when it works). Graphics and sound all work nicely together, and the assistance mode switch can enable you to perform some really cool stunts in the air. In this mode you get a cinematic camera view that shows off your piloting skills (or lack thereof). There are also plenty of different planes to unlock and weapons to choose from.

If it's cheap enough and you are into the genre, give it a go.

Jimbo Rating: 6/10