So, I have enjoyed Hawken for quite some time now, but with the devs making it really hard to stay with the game I found myself drifting to other things such as Overwatch, Guns of Icarus, CS:GO, and Battlefield. However it was not until last week were I found myself purchasing Titanfall 2, here are my overall opinions about the game.
First off, I hate it so very much seeing people say that Hawken is a Titanfall clone, it is such an ignorant thing to say, and not just because Hawken came first. They are much more different than they may seem.
Let's start with mechs, since that's the one main point of similarity between the two games. Titanfall's mechs are slow and more weighty and are far less mobile, along with their more humanoid design, compared to the fast agile (minus C-class) mechs of hawken. Looking at it Hawken's mech's play more like the pilots from Titanfall rather than the titans themselves, which is rather interesting to see. However this is not to say that the mechs from Titanfall are not fun to pilot, because there is no healing (other than stealing enemy batteries and giving them to teammates) this makes the titans more vulnerable and thus a little more conservative in their play, which adds a lot of thought and strategy when fighting against other titans.
When playing as a pilot, you are much more flexible and can zoom around the map with ease due to a near perfect parkour system. Ground action is fast and intense, as well as addicting and with a high skill ceiling just like Hawken.
Graphically speaking, Titanfall is a fantastic game, which is even more amazing due to the fact that it runs on source of all things, Mother F*ing SOURCE! So to that I was really blown away by the polish and look of the game. The best part however is that I can run the game at a smooth 60 fps on max settings with my GTX 960. Now comparing this to Hawken would be unfair as Hawken is far older, and is not as well optimized. However this is just more of a testament to how visually nice of a game Hawken is, as the only negative visual thing that brings it down is the less detailed textures.
And finally we have the single player campaign. Now in my opinion, I'm not very qualified to rate this, just because I have played very few single player games, so I may not have a good scope on what to expect. Other than that, I found the campaign to be very good, just a little on the short side coming in at 5-6 hours.
So overall, I enjoyed Titanfall 2, and found it to be a really good game, if you are like me and are still waiting for them to roll out this supposed "December update" give Titanfall a try, you might enjoy it.
-Note, I purchased Titanfall 2 on sale for 40$. I suggest if you want to buy Titanfall, wait for the price to drop down, as a winter sale should be coming up, and it is a good practice to give EA as little of your money as possible.
Thanks for reading!
Edited by 007eleven, 12 December 2016 - 04:22 PM.
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