Early Access Review
This is a joke, clearly. I had been waiting 2 years for the game to be released and then I had been playing during the closed alpha in 2012, I enjoyed it a lot even with all the bugs and stuff. There was already a lot of people because this game is definitly AWESOME. Then the Beta, still AWESOME. Then Steam, twice the people, twice the fun.
And the game got cancer (it had been acquired by Reloaded Games, Inc., those who played APB:Reloaded will understand). The number of players quickly dropped, due to fact that they stopped updating the game and there was no more events (with cool gifts) instead they added expensive skins because everybody know that it's how you improve games. But the game was still cool even if the average level was really low and it wasn't very challenging (there was community events with good players sometimes). It was cool because it was still HAWKEN for COMPUTER and they didn't change anything to it.
BUT they managed to import it on console (probably "because money" like with APB) and then they started to develop and improve the console version, leaving the real players alone. And because it wasn't funny enough, after 2 years of nothing, they've imported the CONSOLE version on COMPUTER and now it looks horrible, the new interface is awful, the camera motion settings have been downgraded because it wasn't meant to be played on console. They RUINED the game. They also promised Ranked Games and what they did is adding an emblem based on your MMR, waw great job. And this is probably what happens when you give awesome stuff to underskilled people.
For those who never heard about APB, Reloaded have been working on an "Engine Upgrade" for 2 or 3 years and they only did roughly 1/4 of the job but strangely they had time to develop a PS4 and Xbox One version of the game. I hope they'll do something but at the moment I can't recommend you this game because your eyes would bleed and you would play some casual console ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with a mouse and a keyboard (wrong idea). To conclude I HATE YOU RELOADED !!
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8 Comments
dwbjr Jun 18, 2017 @ 8:15am 
This game died off because the owner just used it to promote his other games, not caring what would happen to this he just milked it.
TorlyX Jun 18, 2017 @ 4:12am 
Hmm ok
Wolverine Jun 11, 2017 @ 1:29pm 
The problem with Hawken is...
a. how they lied to us about working on the console version of Hawken, while telling they were working on the PC version and giving sort of "progress reports" every now and then to string the players along.

b. it looks like they're now updating the game on the console side, and then convert whatever they make new over to the PC side, which creates a whole boat load of new bugs in the process.

c. and instead of seeing this as a problem, and either adjust the game back to the PC, or start it the other way around, they keep on doing it...

if they would only do it right, the game could actually shine, and there would be probably less bugs around to suffer through too.
Lions Jun 11, 2017 @ 11:49am 
Funny thing with Hawken. Nobody says it's not a good game. No vision from the PTB.
Xivex Xan Jun 7, 2017 @ 12:58am 
I agree wholeheartedly with this review.
DongPudding Jun 6, 2017 @ 10:09pm 
best ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ review. LOVED the game myself and wanted to revisit it after years to find this ^ instead...
TorlyX Jun 3, 2017 @ 3:59am 
Exactly
TTV HellBoundLycan May 29, 2017 @ 1:22am