Do you know what the absolute best advert for the newly invigorated PSN will be? Fantastic online multiplayer games that are quite simply the most fun you can have online without a webcam and a bottle of baby oil. Some would say that, for the PlayStation 3, that ethos is still led by one game: Warhawk.
So it’s not surprising that anticipation is extremely high for its sequel (which we, and almost everyone except those involved with it, are calling Starhawk). Warhawk’s excellent multiplayer mayhem, adept balancing and hard-to-beat joyfulness but with a space-based twist? Sounds ideal to me. The added single player mode we’ve heard rumoured and the extra features that are possible with a full Blu-ray release are the icing on a particularly enticing cake.
Put simply: we can’t wait.
So, it’s with much excitement that we saw a tweet from Mr Dylan Jobe this morning:
The wait is over next Friday… #DylanLightsTheFuse
Which lines up nicely with some other hinting and excitement building we’ve been hearing via other channels.
Jobe has often said previously that he is not a fan of the overly long hype building that many games are given. He seems to prefer to announce and show off a game when it’s much closer to completion. Hopefully this bodes extremely well for the still rather sparse tail end of 2011 (in comparison to the jam-packed start to the year).
BrainDiver
Sweet! Warhawk was the first ps3 game I ever played, looking forward to Starhawk.
colmshan1990
Imagine if the new game has absolutely nothing to do with Warhawk.
Think of the internet’s reaction…
cc_star
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Y73sPHKxw
Or maybe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UH7Ixvu8bg
tonycawley
That second video was pretty good, got to say…
colmshan1990
Well, that was utterly fantastic!
Especially the second video. :)
aerobes
Haha! That second video is hilarious whilst also being very terrifying.
aerobes
Should’ve been a reply to cc … oops.
ratkiller75
I really can’t wait for this and am glad that the wait will be over soon. The question is what will they have done to it?
stillirise6257
Rarely if at all do i post… lol, im like that guy who just has a read to make sure i know what im talking about when playing online (before judgement day occured) and a certain topic may pop up, but i have never honestly even looked at warhawk… i buy most stuff that takes my fancy but never picked this up and after the comments i have read, i have been persuaded to buy this (hopefully it wont be one of the free games that have been rumoured when PSN returns) hope it lives upto the ‘hype’ ;)
gordon_strange
in the two local gamestations near me, they have the physical copy for £4.99. they had about ten copies lined up in both shops.
If it isn;t one of the free games being offered, then buy a disc version. the price for d/l on the store is more than sub £5 so if you don’t enjoy it, it’s not broken the bank!
Spotter5
So if a Limited edition of Starhawk is announced with a PSeye and a bottle of baby oil, does that make it truly *the* best thing ever?
Ben
Looking forward to that then, not feeling the hype as yet though. Actually believe this will be a game I enjoy playing though, rather than just like the idea of, so my hopes are high.