May 13, 2012

Let’s address the elephant in the room first: Starhawk’s single player campaign is underwhelming.  The plot is a string of clichés and the many potential themes are pushed to the periphery, never to be expounded.  But it does meet its (small) goal of preparing you for the multiplayer better than other games of late in a similar position.  Call of Duty,...

May 13, 2012

Starhawk is a bizarre creation, an amalgamation of several different gaming directives cobbled together with uneven success – a little more polish in a few areas would have gone a long way here.  As is Starhawk is best played with a concessionary attitude, a conviction that you’ll eventually love everything here once you get past X/Y/Z. Its shooter...

Mar 23, 2012

- INTRODUCTION - The Lanna is focused on cutting the defense slack. You are the Osgiliath to your fellow defender’s Minas Tirith.  Floating around the middle of the map, she is focused on destroying incoming enemy assaults, providing the last hope for stopping a runaway flag, and creating a kind of buffer base between your opponent’s base and your...

Mar 19, 2012

- INTRODUCTION - Meet the Gadfly, so named because he’s primarily concerned with being the biggest nuisance imaginable – a real jackass actually. No one sees more rage quits then a successful Gadfly, testing the opponent’s defenses, getting cheap kills, and destroying as many special buildings as she can. The Gadfly will force your opponents into...

Feb 29, 2012

- INTRODUCTION - I’m confident the strategies I’ll lay out here will help you, the lone player without need of team, dominate in Capture the Flag and other objective based games.  Most importantly, these tips will weather the current and future rounds of patches that are addressing some of the flagrant balance issues.  When the dust clears, these...

Feb 1, 2012

Starhawk doesn’t necessarily make the best first impression.  The character design is more trashy-redneck than space cowboy; there’s no cleverly named multiplayer mode to perk eyebrows; its spiritual predecessor was the quintessential niche title that you couldn’t pay most casual players to fuss with.  Most importantly, it stakes a space in the...

Jun 8, 2011

Ok, let me preface my opinion about this game by stating that I completed mass genocide in my first multiplayer game played and walked out with a 40:1 kill to death ratio.  You may or may not find this to be relevant. Starhawk is the most impressive IP I’ve seen so far at E3!  Jesting aside, what I saw had its fair share of rough edges.  The 3rd person...