14 DAY TRIAL // Ubisoft has announced that Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 is in development at the Bucharest studio of the French publisher and that the flight game is set to be launch in the fall of this year on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 from Sony, the Nintendo Wii and the PC.
The initial announcement does not offer too much information on what the newly unveiled game will look like nor on what aspects of the first H.A.W.X. experience it plans on upgrading. Ubisoft is only hyping up the title by saying, “The game will appeal to a wide array of gamers as players will have the chance to control exceptional pilots trained to use cutting edge technology in amazing aerial warfare missions.”
Bogdan Bridinel, a creative director at Ubisoft working on the newly announced game, stated, “With over one million units sold worldwide, Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. has become a very successful brand for Ubisoft. This new H.A.W.X. game is directly inspired by Tom Clancy’s books, and it will enable fans to once again experience the excitement and intensity that established H.A.W.X. as a successful brand.”
H.A.W.X. is one of the titles Ubisoft has launched under the Tom Clancy brand, set in the near future and featuring familiar themes like Private Military Contractors and advanced technology allowing for planes to be flown without the physical presence of pilots. With a new Ghost Recon videogame also set to arrive this year, Ubisoft might be drawing closer to the idea of fully realizing a Tom Clancy universe shared by a variety of titles.
H.A.W.X. 2 will probably offer a better game engine, with larger flying areas and more detailed models for the combat aircraft included. Ubisoft Bucharest would also do well to add a multiplayer component to the game as a lot of reviewers docked points from the first game for its absence.