Hawken Reborn

Hawken Reborn

released on May 17, 2023

Hawken Reborn

released on May 17, 2023

Return to the world of high-octane mech combat in Hawken Reborn. Construct your ultimate war machine and shoot your way through hordes of enemies to uncover the mysteries of Ilall in this brand-new Free-to-Play PVE mech game.


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It's Ok at best, not really what I expected when I read HAWKEN honestly.
Not as bad as some people think, I felt it had the same type of variety in combat and art direction as, let's say, Titanfall 2; the difference is that I really enjoyed Titanfall 2 because it had a surprisingly good campaign, while this game throws you into a menu, then into an empty map and then you just... start following missions, I guess?
Not the best start for a videogame, and things just get more repetitive from there, with no impressive gameplay or mechanics and you just shooting the same stuff and stomping the ground troops.

10/10, this game HATES hippies!

I was happy to see the Hawken name again, but this really blows. It's a mind-numbingly boring single player FPS. You simply move through a linear corridor following a friendly NPC, and shoot the same enemies over and over, with no strategies or skills required. And if you dare try to go in another direction, you'll just get a game over. It feels like a bad game from the PS360 era. It even looks like a game from that era, with flat and ugly brown colors everywhere.
The story is uninteresting and it's told with ugly comics drawn with AI. The only good thing I can say is that I didn't encounter too much bugs I guess.
This is clearly not an attempt by passionate developers to revitalize a beloved niche IP, but just a soulless attempt to use an old IP to sell microtransactions.

Has a lot of usability, performance, and concept issues. And I don't know why a singleplayer game has cloud syncs and microtransactions. I'd rather just pay for it? And it's not beating the AI art allegations for the cutscenes. Buyer beware.

Game's not great, but it's also in early access and hasn't even been available for a day. I'm gonna check back in a year before actually reviewing this game, as Hawken Reborn on release really isn't ready enough to be critiqued.