Comments on: 'Tom Clancy's HAWX' Hands-On Preview with Video

By: Durt Nasty

Durt Nasty — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:25:06 +0000

This looks so much better than that snoozer Ace Combat that came out this week. It looks a little slower paced than on console probably for a good reason since it's a lot harder to control on an iDevice. I'm stoked!

By: jouni

jouni — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:10:20 +0000

Don't forget that F.A.S.T. pulled in 1 million dollars in six weeks, that's a pretty compelling argument for making a competing and expectedly superior game.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/24/another-killer-data-point-for-iphone-apps-fast-pulls-in-1-million-in-six-weeks/

While H.A.W.X. might not be such a recognized brand name, Tom Clancy on the other hand is – which is exactly why Ubisoft purchased the exclusive right to use Tom Clancy's name in videogames.

By: jouni

jouni — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:44:19 +0000

Last year's number was 4,000 employees. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gameloft

Seriously. Four thousand people.

By: Reason21

Reason21 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:13:46 +0000

I wish Gameloft would take the time to put online multiplayer in their games. It seems as if almost every other development team can do this yet Gameloft, the biggest and baddest of them all, cuts us short on online multiplayer time and time again. Why?

By: Stormchild

Stormchild — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:08:02 +0000

Would it be possible to hold the iDevice straight while shooting videos?

By: Artfoundry

Artfoundry — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:06:48 +0000

Even if this is a "mildly successful" IP, Gameloft is known for making good games, even when making multiple games at the same time, which they obviously do on a consistent basis. So I have no doubt this AND NOVA will both be good and successful, especially given how much F.A.S.T. has taken a dive. And the competition with Ace Combat will only be a good thing – it'll push each company to make their respective titles even better (and maybe even cheaper in pricing). And how is it they're "busy pimping" these latest three titles and not NOVA? They JUST released info on these 3 games from what I understand, whereas Nova info has been out for months. They have to market the games at SOME point. In fact, on their tweeter page, I found 8 posts about Nova in the last couple months, whereas only 1 about Driver and none about HAWX.

By: kita

kita — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:55:16 +0000

Yeah it seems very abnormal for a company to release THAT many games every few weeks. I heard they out source to do most of the work though.

By: dumas1000

dumas1000 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:59:18 +0000

I'm much more skeptical as to why Gameloft is busy pimping Driver, H.A.W.X, and Skater Nation, but have barely given us anything on NOVA, and have given given us absolutely nothing on this supposed MC multiplayer update. I also find it difficult to believe that it's worth it for Gameloft to have sunk this much of an investment in H.A.W.X. Maybe Gameloft is banking on it being a recognizable IP, which is something rarely seen on the iphone. Although I have to imagine that H.A.W.X is a mildly successful IP at best. EA does seem to be making money hand over fist simply by churning out iphone versions of all of their IPs. Even so, there are far more successful IPs that Gameloft could have drawn from, thanks to their association with Ubisoft.

By: Hmar9333

Hmar9333 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:16:31 +0000

Eli, is that you replying to 'Citadel' I honestly can't tell whether it's you or the iPod talking!

By: frank

frank — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:44:42 +0000

No internet multiplayer? I can't belive…