{"id":12277,"date":"2012-11-07T17:34:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T23:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/?p=12277"},"modified":"2012-11-13T21:03:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T03:03:20","slug":"hawken-beta-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/hawken-beta-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawken BETA Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Today we are going to be talking about a new game scheduled to release on 12-12-12 called Hawken. Hawken is a MechWarrior based FPS that takes place obviously in the future. A couple of us here at SomeWhatNerdy participated in the BETA that took place at the end of last month. In the video below I am going to show you the opening menu and the garage. I tried to record some game play but Hawken wasn&#8217;t responding very well to Fraps so this is the only video I was able to get as of now.<\/h3>\n<h3><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q-0asozg0yo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\"><\/iframe><\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0Ok first of all I understand that this is the BETA and that the purpose of it is to find and work out bugs. So this is my review of the BETA of Hawken.<\/h3>\n<h3>The first big hurdle I had to get over was the fact that it took me for ever to get into a game, now this could be contributed to the fact that there were so few servers and so many people playing. Then to me the game play was a bit choppy and nothing I did to the settings would fix it. I&#8217;m running a completely beefed up Alienware M17x so I&#8217;m sure it wasn&#8217;t my system not keeping up. As with all the shooters out there the controls took some getting use to and the play style took a lot of getting use to. The mechs have a burst slide ability so it is really hard to get pinpoint shots from a distance unless its the first shot and they didn&#8217;t see it coming, so the victor was usually the one who sprayed and prayed first. Granted after some practice I&#8217;m sure it would feel just as fluid as all the other big name shooters. I really liked the garage and tricking out the mechs. Ive always been a huge fan of anything involving Mechs. I will be buying this one when it releases and hopefully they will have all the bugs fixed or at least the major ones. As far as recommending this game like I said on the 13th of December I plan on jumping in my mech and turning my foes into scrap iron.<\/h3>\n<h3>Here is the official Hawken (work in progress) trailer.<\/h3>\n<h3><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zm7gEDhrPfk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\"><\/iframe><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we are going to be talking about a new game scheduled to release on 12-12-12 called Hawken. 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