Well built-- Very fun game, minus a few minor... problems.
User Rating: 9 | Warhawk (w/Headset) PS3
I've been playing Warhawk a lot since I picked it up from my store last thursday, and, I can say, it's quite well done. The multiplayer is a blast, and I've enjoyed every minute of it. The gameplay is perfectly balanced through rigorous testing. For instance, you could play as infantry, and run around trying to kill other infantry, or, with the rocket, warhawks, tanks, and jeeps. You can do all this without worrying about some random warhawk coming up and bombing/killing you (most of the time). You could also play in vehicles, driving around the map, killing infantry or other vehicles, with slight worry on Warhawks. A third option is to play in a Warhawk, imo, best part of the game. The flight controls are extremely in depth. It's not ridiculously hard to dodge missles, but it's not easy either. The variety of weapons for the Warhawk, as well as infantry, is quite large, all well balanced. Now, you may be asking, "Why do you say it's balanced, it seems as though Warhawks are the best..." Turrets. Yes, Warhawk has turrets in it to balance out the possible continuous raid of bases, and spawn camping. It's a major challenge, and impressive, if one can take down a turret in a Warhawk, without picking up invisibility, and even then, it's still quite impressive.
All in all, Warhawk is a very balanced, fun game. The sound effects are amazing, and the graphics crisp. Not worthy of "next gen" persé, but smooth. Now, you also may wonder why I didn't give this game a 9.5, or even a 10. The reasoning behind that decision is that, as good as this game is, right now, it needs a patch. Badly. It can take anywhere from 1-30 minutes to find a game you can enter, and there are even fewer ranked servers. The main problem there? In order to get into 50% of the servers in Warhawk, including 95% of the 32 person servers, you need to be at least rank Sargeant. I, personally, spent 30 minutes trying to get into a ranked server so I could get up to Sargeant ranked. It's not because of the server being full or anything, but because of a faulty mechanism within the code of the game someplace.
Final thoughts:
Worth buying
Pros:
Crisp graphics
Beautiful environments
Amazing sound
$60 version, free bluetooth headset, valued at $35 seperate, so the game is actually $25.
Amazingly balanced gameplay
Cons:
Online connectivity issues, for now.
Not true "next gen" graphics, if you only care about graphics, this game is not for you.
6 maps. Large, dynamic maps, but only 6.