More Hawken Goodness

Another Friday, another trailer from the upcoming Hawken by Adhesive studios. Since we last posted about the upcoming mech combat title, the studio raised 10 million dollars to develop the title, adopted a free to play model and expanded their team by a few members.

The game continues to grow ever more stunning, with the adoption of a variety of post processing effects. The latest trailer showcases even more eyecandy: Debris, smoke and a gratuitous amount of camera shake accompany every explosion and direct hit. A lovely depth of field effect accompanies sniper action, blurring things in the foreground which are not in focus. One of the newest gameplay reveals comes in the form of a massive frigate at around 1:50 attacking from above..This could be anything from an indication of a story mode, a combat perk (Like the AC150 in Modern Warfare), or possibly even a multiplayer mode similar to Titan mode in Battlefield 2143 or VIP mode in Counterstrike. Needless to say, we await the title with bated breath. Lets hope that they invest some of that money into porting it onto other systems, which does seem like a no brainer at this point.