Couldn't belive it when i read the news on Kotaku this morning, for those of you who dont know he died in a Helicopter crash he was with 3 other people one of them is thought to be his 5 year old son.

My thoughts go out to his family and friends, pleasebare in mind it isnt confirmed that his son is dead but i pray for his safe return.

Just worked my last day as a Broadband technical support advisor Soon to move onto my new job in a bank.

Feels great to finally be rid of the place Pretty sad to say bye to all my friends from there though but we are going to go for a drink at some point.

Just got heavenly sword today aswell traded Bioshock metal tin version in for it only had to pay £2

Well tomorrow I finish working in my current job, been here for about a year can't say im going to miss the place.

The pay kinda sucks (£11,400 PA) the hours are god awful (10am till 2pm then 5pm till 9pm Monday to Friday) and the work environment is pretty pathetic its really hot or really cold never in between and the PC's are slow as hell (bearing in mind im used to playing on high spec gaming PC's) takes about 5 minutes to load up IE.

Starting my new job on the 24th of September as a Cashier for Barclays bank will be on about £13,000 PA, alot of benefits and 9 to 5pm working times, really looking forward to it.

More than anything though i have a week off before i start and Heavenly sword is out tomorrow so i kinda know where my time will be spent in that time ^_^

Anyway feel free to comment or ask questions if you wanna know more

After about a week with this game I think its about time i reviewed it, The reason im leaving it so late is a combination of things mainly the server issue which i'll discuss first.

Servers.

Well initially I bought the game on release in EU region (well a day after didnt get paid till the friday ) pretty much played it to death for the first day ranking was going fine (i thought) Found joining servers a little frustrating and this is where my first issue with Warhawk lies.

Joining a game on a standard online game like this is usually about a 2 minute task with Warhawk its a little different, first and foremost you want to play on a ranked server obviously to progress through the ranks and get new skins, there are a fair few of SCEE and SCEA servers but normally these are maxed out or close to it 30/32, 31/32 is a common sight this is where the problem is you join said game and after about a 2 minute wait it says 'Game full' so you try a different server and the same again. Now this ordeal can go on for something like half an hour until you finally get in a game.

When you do get in that game you'll get idiots who will stand on your mines or run near an enemy tank while you fire a rocket at it, so you get a TK, not a serious point deduction here pretty easy to get those points back, the problem is when alot of people do these stupid things and you get kicked forcing you to spend another 30 minutes searching for a server and losing all the points you got in that round.

My final issue is the ranking, im sure if you guys have played this game or talked to someone playing this game you will of heard of this problem, its been the bane of my life for a while now we had this issue with Resistance, Insomniac were pretty quick to address the issue and kept us posted, i had to search for about 2 hours to find anything valid from a Warhawk developer on this problem, then it turns out the issue was just fixed and i have to delete the game save and reload, no where on the news does it suggest this so i can guaruntee there will be annoyed casual gamers out there. I also didnt get the points i earned before im now a wingman with enough actual points to be a Chief Seargent so i have to earn upto wingman then upto wingleader before i get another rank, which is a bit annoying.

Rant over... If you noticed my problems with this game all lie with the server the rest of the game is another story.

Impressions.

Apart from the above problems this game is fantastic, you would assume that a game solely built around multi player that has only 5 maps would get boring really quickly its just not the case here, each map can be made bigger or smaller in certain modes you will play certain select parts of the map such as Destroyed city when you play CTF you play on the towers in the middle or on the ground surrounding them, this adds alot of debth to the gameplay, the ability to take either ground assault or air assault is also a great addition.

With games in the same genre namely battlefield you had the same options available you could fly or your could attack, but it was limited often you had 2 jets flying around and a few carriers that was about it, with Warhawk you have dogfights over head everywhere your forced to watch both the ground and the sky and an attack could come from anywhere, this adds so much to the experience your constantly on your toes at all times even when your stood idle.

The graphics are great aswell impressive draw distances allow you to see for literally miles again differing from Battlefield where war fog was added partially to ease the strain on people without the best of the best PC's but also to restrict snipers and the like. On WH you can see turrets moving in the distances warhawks taking off and tanks moving from A to B allowing you to plan ahead much like you would do in a real war.

The game modes are pretty unimaginative your typical setup Death match, capture the flag, zones etc. But i guess thats a good thing although an imaginative game mode would of been nice although i cant think of anything ^_^
There arent that many weapons but the ones they have are great, some are a tad annoying namely the Tow missile, you could be defending and get nuked by it from anywhere without even seeing the guy who killed you, gets on your nerves after you have been collecting equipment. The binoculars i think are everyones favourite really devastating nastiness gotta love it .

Overall.

Fantastic game few things need to be changed (mainly server side) some new content would be nice although we know this is coming mabye an additional game mode, the first true PS3 game to come out great start hoping for more good work Incognito.
I'll give this game a 8.5/10.

Good game i guess, i'm a fan of fps always have always will be, was expecting alot out of this game, im not talking about graphics, the graphics were hotter than jessica alba sat on my face, im talking about the gameplay, now for something that was hyped to be "not your typical corridor fps" i was sadly sadly disappointed with how linear this game actually is, the exploration of zones for new weapons and upgrades has been done before, inevitably you have a starting point and a goal the exploration doesnt count against being none linear.

The AI i thought was good in places terrible in others, for example "i haz a wrench!!111" and then run at someone is not 'clever AI' its easy to deal with these guys the only challenge being the numbers of them and lack of health (which isnt even a problem later in the game)

The "survival horror" aspect of the game was none existant i was a little scared at first with the submarine and the splicer outside with no weapons to help me, wasnt bothered after that.

You get unstoppable later in the game, big daddies can be killed with a wrench (i expected these guys to be hard as nails from the initial trailer and hype)

Ok so im not bashing this game im not saying it didnt deliver granted it didnt deliver all i want but its still not a bad game, just not worth GOTY or 10/10

I'd probably settle like this.

9/10 Graphics - Very nice throughout nice power effects nothing to spectacular though, the draw distance is restricted due to the walls in the area so everything is dark with no real focal points.

9/10 Sound - Nice sound stand still and you can hear the whales and creaking etc etc quiet nice (Annoying as hell music)

8.5/10 Gameplay - Its good well structured but nothing spectular.

Overall - 9/10

So its still worth a buy and a play its not a bad game its just a bit meh.