Tom Clancy's : H.A.W.X 2

Just got this games from flipkart. Game requires always on slow internet connection to update your stats online. A 75mb update was automatically downloaded.

Based on 3 hours of gameplay:

The game has some if not all very beautiful landscapes that look brilliantly real on a direct x 11 computer. The missions are slow but fun and the take off, landing, mid air refueling are all new experiences to me and was certainly worth my time. I'm using Logitech Attack 3 Joystick and firing missiles with camera follow, shooting, throttling are all different and fun to do.

I just finished all missions in this game, so this review is gonna help a lot.
For those who don't want to read the whole review:
If you loved everything about HAWX, then HAWX 2 will not impress you at all....!!!
If you loved most things about HAWX, then HAWX 2 will impress you in the rest......
If you hated HAWX, then HAWX 2 might impress you, but planes are less, no weapon pack selections, manual landing/takeoff aren't mush fun, mid air refuel comes just once, and ur wingmen won't shoot any planes, u got to do it all urself. Less missiles. Not as good as HAWX. U need to buy an original of this game, because it requires an active internet connection to play AND AUTHENTICATE. No fake keys. :( (dats y i had to buy it) For more info, take the pains to read on......

For those, who love to read:

The game is really a great one.....

Firstly, with the planes:
fewer are available than in HAWX, and even, the selection of different weapon layouts is not available.

They've added some new things as far as gameplay is concerned.

1.) Night vision mode for night ops.
2.) Take off and landings are manual in most of the missions
This is useful to reload your plane, but most airports are in the middle of the battle. So by the time you line your plane to land, you will be blown up preety bad, so its kinda useless to land your plane while in the battle. You can land peacefully only at the end of a mission, or in between checkpoints when there are less bandits in the air.
3.) (The worst of this game!!!) Our own wingmen, the planes which fly with us, the allies, are hopeless!!! They will just fly around without shooting anyone!!! You got to do all the shooting urself.
4.) The enemy Planes.
Their planes are just like the 'Aces' of HAWX. They are extremely difficult to kill, mainly coz they fly too close to you. I had to use the canon (SHIFT in HAWX) to kill them......Another thing, the HSM (Heat Seeking Missile; the most common in HAWX) doesn't lock on targets too close!!! And most of the targets fly in circles, making them too close!!! NO ALL ASPECT MISSILES IN THIS GAME!!!!
5.) Different kinds of challenges which were in HAWX are almost absent in HAWX 2. For eg, use 50 missiles, fly upside down for total of 15 mins, etc are absent. Only a few are there.
6.) No Mulit AG(Air to Ground) missiles, Multi AA(Air to Air) missiles in just one round, Radar guided missiles in just one round. You got to shoot planes one by one.
7.) Guided bomb. Literally. When you press SPACE, you launch the bomb, and u are actually sitting on the bomb; you guide it with the arrow keys while in the meantime, the AI flies ur plane in a straight line.
Crosshair enabled targeting of almost all ground bombs. You press SPACE; the plane becomes level; an under-belly camera starts, with a crosshair in between so u can target locations right under the belly of ur plane. Zoom in zoom out available. When finished, press 4 to exit, and u can again control ur plane.
8.) Drone survelliance available, with a camera that i mentioned in 7th point above. Exciting at the beginning, but boring as it progresses. You just have to move the camera here and there. This comes in just 2 missions!!!
9.) In one mission, you are aboard C-130 Hercules kinda bomber plane, and you can target ground targets with 105mm,45mm,25mm guns, just like in Call Of Duty. The 105mm bombs take around 5 secs to reload(Big blast), the 45mm rounds take 2 secs (medium blast) and 25mm gun (machine gun blast) can spit many rounds before heating up. Here, u can zoom in and zoom out manually. This comes in just one mission!!!
10.) MOST IMPORTANT: Control of airplanes
The planes are more realistic; that means, inertia is more, gravity works more on ur plane. If you are pitching up hard, and if you suddenly want to pitch down, it'll take around 1.5 sec for most planes to first stop the pitch up, and then start with pitch down. So, in a total of 2.5 secs, the plane will start pitch down from a full pitch up. Thats a lot of time!! Frustrating when fighting with a gun, especially if the missiles don't work too close!!!
11.) Stall warning is better than in HAWX.
A big STALL comes on screen when u are in stall. Easy to recover from atall than in HAWX. Just accelerate for a few secs and u r clear. No need to level ur plane and accelerate like in HAWX. Just accelerate.
12.) Flares come in bunches!!
More flares than HAWX, but the enemies will fire on you more often than in HAWX.
13.) Graphics are better.
You have an option whether u want to play a DirectX9 version or a DirectX11 version of the game.
14.) Mid air refuel available just once in the whole game.
Just in one mission, u have to refuel within 5 mins; most of the plane is controlled by AI, u just have to manage the direction. Not as exciting as it sounds.

A FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANTASTIC game by Ubisoft !!!! My ratings for this game 20/10 !!! Frankly speaking people this game is definitely an winner for those who love air combat games !!! And some people out here think this game sucks !!! I don't think so at all !! For Online game-play i recommend people should at least have a 1 Mbps internet connection !!! Because me having a 1 Mbps connection the game has never given me any patch update or any in game problem !!! the only thing about this game is that there are very few servers for the game and it makes impossible to get in sometimes !! So lets start up some indian servers and play online and go pro !!! you can add me up on facebook i m a resident of New Mumbai, Juinagar so it wont be hard to find me and my profile pic is of Samurai X !!! so me waiting for your request !!! and top of that i forgot to say Thanks to Flipkart for its promise of a faster delivery !!!

Rock on,
Flipkart.com !!! You guys are surely the best !!

HAWX 2 is the first simulation game I bought because there is no other way you can play it(DRM and Uncracked,Yes)and since it looks good to eye but have serious bugs all the way through game play(note:its an arcade version and not simulation game)but LAN and online play make it worth it's money.This game offer Dogfights,UAV's,AC-130 Gunship,Predators and picturesque landscape
to fly across.All this at a price of 240,Now i left you with no choice,Hmm.

I had a harrowing time in installing the game. The initial installation was smooth, completed in about 7 minutes. But after that the 74MB update download never took off and stcuk at 0 Kb. After multiple falied attempt, i downloaded the v 1.01 patch manually and installed it. Then again, this time started the Launcher update which continues to terminate just before completion, until the successful 3rd attempt. Then again came the message in the launcher patching phase - "launcher update failed. re-installing may fix the issue". Anyway the launcher started and now New Story loading failed. I got badly frustrated at all these as was dying to play my first and most wished flight action game. And there was no mention about these steps in the ReadMe file.

After a restart though, launcher patching was successful and the game started smoothly. And believe me, I forgot all the previous pains on starting my first flight training. It was AWESOME!!!

Summarily, flipkart service is the best as usual. But for the game, though it deserves a 5 star from me, I finally decided on 4, only due to the fact that UbiSoft snatched my peace of mind for some time with the installation woes. I hope they will include the latest updates/patches in the DVD itself in future.