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Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X 2 Hands-On Preview
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Posted by Donster on: 2010-07-22 16:56:52 317
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We re-enlist with the High Altitude Warfare eXperimental squadron in this air combat sequel--now with takeoffs and landings.
By Jane Douglas, GameSpot UK
Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X 2 puts you back in the cockpit of various modern or cutting-edge fighter planes, though this time the aerial combat is split across US, Russian, and British campaigns. The story isn't a direct continuation of the first game's mercenaries-versus-US plot, but it has "much more depth," according to narrative director Edward Douglas, thanks to its multiple international perspectives. Though the plot isn't laid bare in our demo, we gather it involves mounting insurgent activity in the Middle East and Russia. As the game begins, a nuclear missile has disappeared from a Russian military base, and in the tutorial mission Contact (described in our first look at the game), an insurgent convoy launches an attack on a US air base in a desert at the edge of the conflict.
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