Kain, on 28 August 2012 - 11:19 AM, said:
Wow, way to judge a videogame without even playing it...
As for unoriginal mech-design... What? I for one haven't seen mechs like that anywhere yet.
Either way, I got to play it at gamescom this year, and it's freaking awesome, very fast paced and intuitive, yet you still get the impression of piloting a mech, they really nailed what they set out to do.
That said, it's not going to be able to compete with MWO... seems like a contradiction, but all MWO and Hawken have in common is the theme of mech-combat, aside of that they are two fundamentally different games.
MWO is what you'd expect from a mechsim, Hawken is more like UT in mechs with JJs, they couldn't be further apart so I doubt there will be any competition between them in the first place.
With that in mind MWO is going to be for the people liking the simaspect of this genre, while Hawken is going to cater more to this generation of FPS-player. Whichever group you're a part of, you should try the other game as well if you aren't too prejudiced to try something new once in a while...
I for one am almost certain that MWO and Hawken will be able to coexist. The one will be pretty much a sim in a deep and rich universe that has existed for a few decades, the other one fast paced mech-action in a completely new universe ready to be discovered.
So, we've got the sim-crowd covered, we've got the action-crowd covered and for everyone in who can enjoy both, there's two great games coming this year!