I open the text of the old article about Heroes Over Europe – it was a third -rate and simple arcade about pilots of the Second World War. The review begins with the words “airplane, cheers!”. Indeed, there is something to rejoice. Flights not even simulators regularly go to me (except that Il-2 I will modestly bypass), and therefore “Hurray” once again-after a pack of nostalgic broadcasts on Ace Combat 2 And 3 I want to see where the genre has gone since then, because over the past fifteen years, reactive aircraft has not changed much. What will we have fun?
While everyone is arguing whether China has built a fifth -generation fighter or is it a flying matchbox, in H.A.W.X. 2 Events that threaten the peace of peace take place. Selected nonsense from Tom Clansy – “rebels” captured a powerful weapon and gather together to overthrow superpower. The most funny is a Russian general broadcasting about the greatness of the country to the stereotypical howl of something similar to the revolutionary “Dubinushka”. Sorry, his words are interrupted organized the attack is not only aviation, but also armored vehicles. And all this is in the Chechen mountains … The mountains, I must say, are beautiful, and the mass retreat of the regular army under the patriotic-heroic speeches of the same general sound, to put it mildly, in an idiotic.
And in the title role – the plane. To please and for the sake of scratching the sense of his own coolness of the player “Steel Bird” can be carried under a hundred missiles, equipped with an endless machine gun and devilishly strong. Testaments Ace Combat live now – there, too, several dozen shells fit into the fighter. With a smile, we sit down at the helm – it doesn’t matter where and what to fly on, any “bird” is deadly, and all operations depend on the air support: the promotion of tanks, the landing of the capture group or the attack of the whole fleet ..
Everything is familiar. Three types of chambers: behind, you can observe how reactive power flares up in the engine;From the cab-it is not too functional, closes the review, but gives authenticity;And the best look is, as it were, from Kokpit, but without it. With the last option, the spaciousness of the sky feels better, the review is great, and only the most important indicators remain from the interface: speed, height, ammunition. Fans of the film Top Gun or “Hot Heads” for the most part, the gameplay will be familiar with: keep the target on the fly, the red square captures it, let two rockets – the fireworks are the fogger of the enemy machine and gruel from the pilot. Sometimes you need to fuck on ground technology or fortifications – the shells give out the corresponding. And if whoever fired us, a stylish indicator appears on the side, and in the upper corner there is a separate camera showing our “bird” in all its glory and pursuing its death (or one fifth of death, depending on the regime, complexity and stock of false targets).
The description of the gameplay could be put in three lines, but back in 1998, they realized that it was not exciting to fly and pouring machine-gun-rack fire. Therefore, you need to come up with something else-but this is what? The Japanese in Ace Combat 3 created the future, virtual reality and a plane that connects directly to the nervous system of the pilot. H.A.W.X. 2 -Oda for the helped with Modern Warfare 2 Lockheed AC-130 Spectre, drones, point shots and self-confusion. And here, we must pay tribute, the developers tried. If you do not pay attention to the plot of a stranger, it turns out very vigorous. The missions are diverse: either the desert, then the ocean, then the mountains (with the teseselia, snowy peaks are just chic), then we sit down for the guns of the AS-130, then we drive the drone, and even all together ..
For example, one of the complex tasks – you need to cover the ground strike group. What’s in its composition – and you won’t understand, we are not at a height to look at these trifles. An alarming red indicator, as it were, hints that it will not work out, you will have to protect the allies. Airplanes and powerful ground detachments meet them. And everything would be fine, but we were not given the air-air missiles, but with a machine gun to dive on anti-aircraft guns-then another pleasure. What to do? We clear the sky, our “ptaha” hangs on autopilot, and we are frantically aiming with whitish crossroads to such cute hostile yellow mugs. Klaz, Klaz, Klaz – missiles went to targets, a pack of new “MiGs” arrived. Repeat the procedure, please ..
I could not stand this line and still looked at the “hot heads”, gave the sensations to brew exactly an hour and twenty -one minute. He was a little recruited by old -school humor and aircraft test – and again burst into the thick of the real air war. A hundred goals, in the reserve of six dozen missiles, does not converge in the reserve of mathematics, so first you need to recapture the airfield … Some missions are “composite”-you will have to land for refueling and reloading, and only then take your asses further. Moreover, the very fact of putting on is not too much-it makes no difference, you steer F-15 Eagle, F-16 Falcon or F/A-18 Hornet. But you just have to bend, and on the next debt-debt of the task we will monitor international terrorists, hang beacons on their homes, and then hammer it with point blows. After, in the next mission, “kill them all”, we will be at the disposal of cassette bombs and missiles with dividing warheads – a new level of fun, new mountains, a new aircraft … Only the process itself does not change at all: plunge, set aside, capture and more difficult in the distance of the shooting button.
And after an avalanche, not too flattering reviews, the game is partly saved by the cooperative mode! Yes, it can be held together. True, I was not particularly practiced in this, but the tedious clock of the campaign alone is mastered … Do not believe it, twice as fast. And the same execution of ground forces from the drone is simple: one hollows the earth actively with missiles, and the other covers from air attacks. Friendship will save the world, I always said. And if you play with a girl on the
network, the world will save love, as in that song.
I somehow did not work out with the multiplayer. There are few servers, people are counted on the fingers. There are, of course, the battles are serious, thick, with sparks, fire and mountains of fragments, but it so happened that any attempt to fight in the sky ended fatally. I only fly out, the rocket is already approaching me – and the target enemy is far away, outside the defeat zone. I am puzzled by throwing an eyebrow, meanwhile fingers calmly, for a long time worked, groping Alt+F4. Works.
We monitor the negotiations of terrorists using a drone with wiretap. Beacons are more than enough.
Popularity H.A.W.X. 2 not to see, although it is solid, if you exclude the nonsense of the plot. Not at all demanding, stable and entertaining with all his might, but … the genre itself has outlined its. Over the past 20 years, technologies have changed dramatically, 3D has appeared on the approach of holograms … And the planes are the same. The full path from the idea to the flight of the fighter runs through 7-10 years-not all countries can build aircraft, and in conflicts, swift machines do not play the main role. Our industry rubbed the topic to the hole with hundreds of products – here it is, immediately after H.A.W.X. 2, And no photographic landscapes removed from satellites will help. It is not surprising that there are no other projects with the participation. In modern times, flying is already boring.
Pros: beautiful landscapes;elaborate 3D;cute aircraft models;Simplicity of development.
Cons: little dynamics, as a result – monotony inside the missions;The plot is rich in stamps;Physics to the limit fantastic.