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Starhawk Dated by Retailer

Starhawk, the much anticipated follow up to what some still consider to be the PlayStation 3′s best online gaming experience (Warhawk, if you’re wondering) has been given a retail date by GAME stores.

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disturbing_flame5567d ago

It can be the other game presented @ VGA.
But i doubt they release it in January, nore this year (2011)
Warhawk was a tremendous game, full of class and win, this one can be a good surprise.

mastiffchild5567d ago

Lord knows where Game got this date from cos, to me, it's most likely to be a date for beta which is the LAST thing retail need know of. However, the W'hawk beta was a couple of months long itself, there's been no public(or closed-we'd have heard , surely)beta yet and no announcement. Even if Sony announced it TODAY would they have enough time to hype and market the follow up to the best playing Sony online PSN game ever? No, date makes zero sense without going into the fact next year is already FULL of Sony owned shooters for PS3 let alone the million others we'll get!!

I've been expecting the word on the sequel for AAAGES as a mate spoke to Dylan while holidaying last summer before E3 and he told him(my mate being an industry type and not afraid to talk shop with the big boys-he's cheeky as well)and got told that the game felt like it was going great after a slow start and what sounded like some nasty Incognito fallout politics-that's what my mate reckoned Jobe meant by saying it "started off a bit tough with the new set up". The other things he asked about were SP and the setting(cos of the S'hawk/space rumours)and all DJ offered him(which is what makes me feel he really met the guy!) was that they were just putting a hell of a lot more "in every sense" into the game.

Anyway, he said Dylan was a nice guy and took a good ten minutes to chat Warhawk with some mad Limey he didn't know who was probably also melting in the heat as they talked-which must have been off putting for him. Thing is a SP campaign would be the icing on the cake for me as all Warhawk lacked, imho, was a frame of reference for the tightest, most varied and balanced shooty shooty MP on PSN ever! Can't wait but also cannot think for a minute this is the right information for the release.

As long as they keep the servers and 90% of the gameplay mechanics and just work on expanding the template and use the bigger budget and more time they have this time round it should be REALLY special as it seems Sony have given them a lot of space to get this done right. Popped back into W'hawk after a long(broken disc-long story)gap and holy baby Jesus have pilots gotten good!!? Game always had a great community, though, and it'#s still busy enough even now and just such a great package with the DLC which ACTUALLY changed the way we played the game being another instance where the team showed just how much care they take with this series-so much better than a mere, sodding map pack. Hope the VGAs bringg word but Feb is WAY too soon to give the game a chance of selling and when W'hawk itself SHOULD be up there in sales terms with Gears, MGS4,Halo and the other big exclusive shooters in sales terms but isn't because no one ever got told by Sony how great it was that would be so criminal.

vhero5567d ago (Edited 5567d ago )

Ignore game release dates for games that aren't even confirmed yet thats my rule and any game that starts with GT(insert number here).

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koehler835567d ago

What's worse? A retailer who is clearly pulling dates out of their ass, or the people who believe in them enough to post about it online?

Brodiesan5567d ago

I'd say people who comment about something that is obviously of interest to some people but not to them personally are worse. But, hey, that's just me.

The fact that a major retailer has a date for an unannounced game is news. You might think the date is bogus (and it possibly is) but who are you to say that this news shouldn't be communicated to others.

Note: at no point does this article state: "Starhawk will be out in February." It simply states what it is: a date by a retailer.

If people didn't post news of this nature on N4G it would be nothing but a wasteland full of "GT5 Vs. Forza", Top 10 Whatever and "Why X Should Do Y" articles.

I guess you'd rather ready them?

Fel085567d ago

I'm so excited for this game. I got Warhawk like 3 years ago, and it still the most played game in my PS3.

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Best Sci-Fi Games on the PS3

From the cosmos to crash-landing back on good old planet Earth, come read through the best sci-fi-nastically games on the PS3

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zaanan693d ago

Not a single Reistance? Fuck this article.

mastershredder693d ago (Edited 693d ago )

Starhawk over Warhawk?...... Dude, NO ONE should listen to you.

Odd choices for "best" more like you settled as these being the "best" that available to you at the time, cause a lot of these blow or were average to poor performers that ended up in bargain bin.

Missing too many great sci-fi titles here. The Void, The Resistance Series, Killzone 2 and 3, Enslaved, man.. there were so many, this is redicu-list.

FreeckyCake692d ago

Nobody should listen to you either with that attitude.

OtterX692d ago

I agree that Starhawk shouldn't be above Warhawk, however I must say that Starhawk multiplayer was incredible for its time! Many people wrote it off bc the single player was quite terrible, bc it was basically 1 huge tutorial for the multiplayer. But I can tell you never spent any significant amount of time in MP. It was doing incredibly tense base building w air, foot and land vehicle (and mech!) combat long before Fortnite was ever a thing.

I bet it would have been much better received if it had just ditched the story mode all together. So many people like yourself completely wrote it off based on reviews by reviewers that let the criticism of single player weigh heavily on their scores. I bet you didn't even play it.

Friendlygamer692d ago

The riddick games are some of the best stealth titles ever, highly underrated

YourMommySpoils692d ago

What games? All recall plating was Escape from Butcher Bay.

Friendlygamer692d ago (Edited 692d ago )

There's also the less acclaimed 'assault on dark Athena'

( also, not saying this to you specifically but there's both resistance and killzone games on the list, it's amazing how even something so simple and innocent as a game list can be turned into misinformed vitriol here lol )

jznrpg692d ago

Glad to see Resonance of Fate. Enslaved was pretty good too. I’m sure there are others nobody has listed but I’m too tired to try and think of anything

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Roundtable: Dead Game Franchises We Miss

With every big game now belonging to a big intellectual property, there are those that have become redundant. Here are the series' we miss.

RPGer1769d ago

I miss Dark Cloud I mean damn, Dark Cloud 2 is one of the best Action RPG game ever made. The game have: Rich Worlds, different setting, tons of contents, vareity in gameplay like never before (and even after), best buliding mechanics, crafting system like no one did and finally impressive graphics.

Most underrated game ever. It deserved the popularity and sales of Zelda and Final Fantasy. ut unfortunately, Level-5 and Sony didn't advertise it at all.

titans99991769d ago

My franchises I wish would make a come back, are Battlefront by pandemic studios - galactic conquest was the best, mercenaries 1 and 2, and prototype 1 and 2...great games!

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Pure Reminiscing: Starhawk

Pure PlayStation: Pure Reminiscing is a brand new feature from our very own Kyle Durant. It’s… different. Think of it like a mini-novel full of Kyle’s most weird and wonderful musings about games of yesteryear. If nothing else, at least it’s long enough to give you something to do on your journey to work in the morning….

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