Wednesday, February 8th 2012
Hawken Launching As Free-to-Play with Beta
The highly anticipated first person shooter/Mech simulator Hawken is stated to be released on the 12th of December this year. 12-12-12. What makes this an interesting development is the game will be released under the a free-to-play model. Normally a free-to-play model is really just a pay for extended content model. How Adhesive Games the Hawken developer is going to set this up is unknown. What is known is the game looks to be quite beautiful with a slight Quake 3 feel to it. Luckily for the Mech junkies in the PC community we will have access to a beta before we make the plunge in December. If you sign up three friends Adhesive Games will reserve your call sign when the game finally debuts. Open enrollment has already started. You can sign up here.
So what are you waiting for? Get to blasting!
Source:
Shacknews
So what are you waiting for? Get to blasting!
26 Comments on Hawken Launching As Free-to-Play with Beta
There's a couple videos floating around, I'll see if I can dig em up.
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These videos are a little old, just FYI.
I used to love BF2143!
Now about Hawken.. It looks really good, but Free-to-play kills it for me.. I wanted BF Hero's to work too, but with all the kids that get there parents to dump loads of money into it to build there character way up... It sucked ass... And it takes forever to even get to the next level for free... :banghead: Now I may be wrong about this for Hawken.. but I'll have to see it to believe it. If they put limits on the game.. say if a person spends 40 bucks every 6 months or maybe even a year.. They should be maxed out on game advantage weapons and such.. but still allow someone to spend more than 40 but only be able to buy hats! and shit.. Valve already showed us how much gamers like to get new hats in game.. :roll:
Ive always been a mecha fan. though Im not initially impressed by the designs but maybe i just love shit like Armored Core or Gundam too much.
I saw some screens and was thinking ok.. so Tony Hawk meets Rage.. interesting.
Reminds a lot of the Mechwarrior series, even have jumpjets on them.
Wonder if they can be customized, with different loadouts.
Really looking forward to this game! :toast: