Anyway, it looks like Starhawk will bring out some new features that Warhawk was lacking. First off, a single player mode! When Warhawk was first announced it had a single player mode, but was later cut by the team because it didn’t “feel right.” Now, it looks like it’s back and should bring a nice addition to the game. I mean, I think all PS3 games should have single player modes now-a-days since you can’t play online anymore. It seems they cut out picking up health items and have swapped to the newer tradition of slow health regeneration. As you mow down your enemies you will acquire rift energy which can be used to call down strategic structures in the middle of a battle to help alter the fight in your favor. This is pretty much all the information I was able to get from my first viewing of the video found below but felt I should share some the key points I was looking forward to. If you’re a fan of Warhawk, own a PS3 or just like awesome games. Check out the video and see what you think. I can say with 100% certainty  that I will be pre-ordering this bad boy when it makes it way to Amazon.

****Edit*** I removed the video here because it stopped loading. There is a better video that can be found here.

The new map is also a welcomed site to sore eyes. Not nearly as large as Omega Dawn (Thank goodness) and no where near as bright as Broken Mirror. In the middle of the map, it appears that there is a giant space ship that has fell from the sky (Hence Fallen Star, eh.. eh?), which I can only assume is one of the ships that were meant to be in the single player campaign the game was originally going to have.

On a quick side note, I want to give kudos to the team that created all the names for the trophies. They have all made me chuckle, and I hope to some day have the Platinum, All Your Base Are To Belong Platinum.

As of 12:53 am this morning, the newest Warhawk Patch, version 1.5 was released. (At least that was when I noticed it) So I just had to try it out, wanting to see what trophies could be acquired, what trophies I would start with. (Since they did announce some of the trophies would be acquired upon installing since some of them you wouldn’t be able to re-acquire)

Other than trophies, the game now supports in-game music. Finally you can go on a murdering rampage while listening to your favorite boy band super-mega-death-metal that is so rough the cat devourers his own fur.

Of course with all patches, there are new paint schemes for your Warhawk and new insignias. Which reminds me, I need to see if any that my friend and I submitted where ever selected.

There is also a new tab on the main menu which allows you to go into a training mode. I didn’t bothering checking in out, having been playing the game since I was in the beta and having to figure everything out the old fashion way. Trial and error. (Remembers back the first few times. When I too made the rookie mistake of not knowing, Triangle takes you out of hover mode) Ahh… memories.

So you might be wondering why there is a picture of a hot dog stand on top. Very easy explanation to this. Upon reading about the new Booster Pack that is due out tomorrow, the new vehicle is a jet pack. Apparently the way you get a jet-pack, is you walk up to this dispenser and press Square. Then dispenser then begins to make a jet-pack just for you.  So in conversation, someone asked the dev, “It’s much like a hot dog vendor?” And once you too see the dispenser, you too will come to the same conclusion.

The booster will also bring about a new map, this time in a more forest-esk setting. So come back tomorrow and hear my thoughts on the new map. Safe flying!

As of Wednesday, the new 1.4 patch for Warhawk was released. Why it didn’t contain the new trophy patch (That will be the 1.5 patch that should be out “soon”), but instead it contained two very nice new game modes.

The first new game mode has to be my favorite of the two, Hero.

Yes, this is what it looks like when you are the Hero for your team (Change color when needed).
Basically the game mode plays out like this. Team Death Match style, but on each team there is one hero. The hero is randomly selected and upon becoming the Hero, your backpack becomes full with all the fun weapons you love. On top of this you get a bonus to your armor(health?) All in all you can take a whole lot more damage, and you can dish TONS of it out. Your weapons become much stronger, for example, I blew up a tank with my assault rifle!

Once you die, a new hero will be randomly selected. If you manage not to die, about after two minutes you will lose your hero status and a new player will be selected.  So far I have become the hero at least twice a game.

The next game mode is called Collection, which takes capture the flag and puts a twist on it.  If you look closely on the map above, you will see four little biohazard symbols. These are where the cores are. Your job is to grab a core, and take it back to your base. Here’s the catch though, the points improve the more cores you have. So if you turn in one core, you recieve one point. Two cores = three, three cores = six, four cores = twelve I believe. Although I have yet to see four turned in at once. It’s different, but a little odd feeling. If you’re a fan of base defense like Mike K. is, you might find you need to adjuts your play style, since the bad guys will never come into your base unless they are chasing you down.

This patch brought in a few other features and tweaks, but I mainly wanted to go over the new game modes.