Hawken (2012) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Hawken

War is a Machine Pilot hulking death machines and use massive weaponry to destroy your foes in fast-paced FPS gameplay. Hawken is a multiplayer first person shooter that places you inside a mechanized war…

45 12 December 2012

What Hawken is

Hawken is a shooter game developed by Adhesive Games and released in 2012. It was published by 505 Games. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.

The premise, in the publisher's words

War is a Machine Pilot hulking death machines and use massive weaponry to destroy your foes in fast-paced FPS gameplay. Hawken is a multiplayer first person shooter that places you inside a mechanized war machine on the battlefield of a dystopian world. With tactical, fast-paced gameplay in customizable and upgradable mechs across multiple competitive modes, Hawken is explosively fun.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It supports multiplayer for up to 12 players online. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Hawken holds a critic score of 45 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 25 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Hawken launched on 12 December 2012, within three weeks of Far Cry 3, Game Dev Tycoon, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragonborn and Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Far Cry 3, Game Dev Tycoon, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragonborn, Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition.

Official trailer