Clickonline writes "StarHawk is a strange old bird.
On the one talon, it’s a derivative repackaging of a half-decade old PS3 launch title, its plumage but plumped with refined visuals, its wingspan tinged a fresh Tower Defence mechanic.
On the other, it is quite possibly the quintessential console multiplayer experience."
From the cosmos to crash-landing back on good old planet Earth, come read through the best sci-fi-nastically games on the PS3
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.
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.
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 )
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
With every big game now belonging to a big intellectual property, there are those that have become redundant. Here are the series' we miss.
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.
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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A 7 my a$$,....Starhawk is THE BEST online game going around at the moment, and will be for quite some time I'm afraid, as it seems 99% of developers will only be greenlit for a shooter if it follows COD's lead.
It would be nice to see more titles do what Starhawk is doing.....& I don't mean just try to copy & paste the actual game as is, but more to push the boundaries, open up the genre to new things.
I wanted a MAG 2, as MAG isn't just a COD/BF wannabe, but it's it's own entity, a standalone game that added to the genre, instead of stealing from it & over crowding it. I mean, I love me some COD as much as the next man......but comon, for f$#ks sake, how many of the same game can Activision heap on us, then expect us to pay through the nose for a handful of extra maps?
How much longer are gaming journo's who are supposed to know what they are doing, heap praise on these samely experiences, yet burn the crap out of other games for being too samely, how long do we have to be ridiculed with these rehashes being awarded top scores in reviews, while the true innovators & pioneers trying to push a stale genre forward, are beaten down for there efforts, as shown by many sh$thouse, mainstream reviewers with the awesome Starhawk?
Compared with the other dross, rip-offs & re-hashes this genre has been flooded with, Starhawk is an award worthy, 10/10 game that any console owner would LOVE to have grace there machine. I mean, I feel sorry for any 360 only owning, online loving gamer, as this game is made for console online gamers......it is the pinnacle, the savior of online gaming for me.
I had found no substitute for Socom 2's awesomeness on any console this generation until Starhawk....Warhawk was O.K., but felt like a flight game perfected, but the 3rd person aspect was pretty awful, un-polished & therefore suffered in the fun aspect....so, unless you dedicated your whole gaming life to being as good a pilot as the other hawkers, your chances of getting fun, as opposed to frustration from that game was next to nil. But, Warhawk was a great platform, & the ultimate example of how to progress a game forward, how to improve upon an already solid platform, & basically how to take a niche, strong only in one area type game, & grow it into a fun across the board, way better experience.
If only the big boys, like COD, & such, had the balls to start expanding upon the foundations they've already laid, so many titles ago. Imagine how good the C.O.D. series could be, if liberties were taken & Activision allowed there artists the actual freedom to ply there trade & be the artists they yearn to be, instead of being controlling, tyranical, dictators that have them developing the same game over again, just with different colored trees & ground, enemy uniforms, & new dialogue that somehow feels old. Basically Activision are selling us suckers a retread for the price of a new tyre, then selling is a puncture repaid kit every month thereafter.
Instead, I'd rather be playing a 1st person version of Starhawk....Hey, if it doesn't work & fails to sell well enough....what have Activision really lost? 1 bad apple out of a batch of 7 or 8....then screw it, they can just get on with B.O.2. or MW4. For f$#k sake, they have 3 development teams being wasted on the 1 series of game, strewn across 2 subtitles, & there sticking to the 1 genre....Comon, at least branch off a little.
Starhawk, is without a doubt the best multiplayer game going at present, & thats no easy feat......it truly is a masterpiece, & should be experienced by anyone with a PS3 that likes multiplayers games, online competative games.....hell, if you don't have a PS3, you owe it to yourselves as well as these developers one & a copy of there game.
Forget this turdish review, & add at least 2 points if you like multiplayer/online gaming, as this IS THE BEST game of it available on any platform.
Sounds about right.
You know I don't speak Spanish
im loving multiplayer!