<![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @jun581: @Black-Dog-Howls: I don't think it was that hard to figure out especially since they gave plenty of clues to this here and there. Even if a game does not provide such an indepth level of planning as Warhawk does you could always load up a pic of a map of whatever game and discuss it in your Home.

Volomon

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Amazing. Just amazing. 2008 is the year of the PS3

Huxle

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @GoonieGooGoo: dude, you are like, totally wrong.

Striderhayasa - Phillyyakk on PSN and Live.

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Haha, my friend already stays up way too late playing online on the PS3. Something like this is going to give him no sleep.

Puchi

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @qBIRD:

"Why are people that aren't into Warhawk commenting?

We don't care you don't like the game..this is news for people that DO like the game..and it's awesome to us...so back the f*ck off with the haterade and go play Halo or whatever other crappy FPS you clones play.

I'll be in the War Room."

Probably the same reason you felt the need to comment on Halo even though you obviously don't like it. If you "don't care", why so angry?

Methinks the fanboy doth protest too much.

busboy33

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @krisb:

No, I'm in Virginia.

PapaBear434

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Coming in Spring, 2011.

Amazing-Steve

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @PapaBear434:
Hey Papabear, I think I played on a warhawk team with you a few weeks back, are you from Philly? Think I remember the server saying something like that...

krisb

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> As cool as all of these sound I've sort of lost interest in Home. I hope it is revived but honestly, when you hear about something for over a year and still have only tentative launch information it sort of loses its luster. Now that the PS3 has a solid presence in the market they should probably rethink their marketing strategy when it comes to early product information. Hype of something cool only lasts so long. You can bring it back but some of your earlier excited consumers will be lost.

Hagame

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @GoonieGooGoo:

Why are people that aren't into Warhawk commenting?

We don't care you don't like the game..this is news for people that DO like the game..and it's awesome to us...so back the f*ck off with the haterade and go play Halo or whatever other crappy FPS you clones play.

I'll be in the War Room.

qBIRD

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Sloopydrew: And its just february!

Can M$ maitain the xbox hype with just Gears 2? We will see!

FelicioLostHorizonPT

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> XBL? SOOOO 2007!!!

FelicioLostHorizonPT

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> OK....I'm sorry to say...there are a variety of problems inherent here.

The 1st is liking WARHAWK. I was severely disappointed by this title in that it does not really resemble the original and for all intensive purposes was BATTLEFIELD LITE.

However WARHAWK unlike BATTLEFIELD...is not too heavy on the strategy....as I've noticed no one really works as a team and everyone tends to do their own thing and run all willy nilly all over the place.

Also Unlike BF:2142, BF2 or its PC Brethren or even BF: Modern Combat....I've found the voice chat to be spotty in performance. Not to mention you don't really have SQUAD COMMANDERS who can really shape the battle like in BF: 2142.

Suffice to say...this Home Functionality while it looks pretty.....its effectiveness on actualy gameplay would seem limited because if you know the maps already (there aren't that many of them)....you already know your strategies.

For what I expect to be a real update in real-time combat plan interaction.....I am really looking forward to TOM CLANCY'S : ENDWAR.

GoonieGooGoo

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Could Sony be having a better month?

Sloopydrew

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> I'll wait and see how it's integrated before I get excited.

Sure, the IDEA sounds amazing, but loading up Home, inviting friends into Home, getting friends to download the Warhawk Home Lobby, restarting, then re-inviting friends into the Home Warhawk Lobby, arranging battle plans, starting up Warhawk, waiting for Warhawk to load, finding that one of my friends needs a game update before he can join in, and having to quit out and invite friends back into the lobby all over again DOESN'T sound cool.

It's all down to how it's implemented, but I don't really see how loading up Home, hot jumping to a Warhawk lobby (which might have to load), then waiting for Warhawk to load from that lobby, could be anything but time wasting and annoying.

Why not just build features like this into the game? Chromehounds had a great lobby system like that, where you had a few minutes before the battle to plan out your mission, trade parts, and build Hounds, but with the added bonus of not having to fart around with the dashboard to do it.

Juganawt

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Itchy:
Of all the PS3 exclusives, Warhawk and Drake are the only two that I would jump to play. Everything I've seen and heard about the game is A+. I certainly hope that nothing I said was misconstrued as a slam on Warhawk. I love team games (as opposed to FFA deathmatches), so Warhawk is right in the center of my wheelhouse. Hopefully Frontlines can give me a little of that fun with vehicles, but I recognize that Warhawk is tuned far better than Frontlines is (FAR too much spawncamping for my tastes).

I do recognize that each Home lobby will be customized for the particular game. Again, I do think it's a neat feature (not Home, the lobbies . . . still not sold on Home itself). What I was wondering was about the comments in each of these "X will make Home Really, Really Cool" posts. Each thread is filled with comments describing each lobby as essentially the Second Coming of the Christ, and I'm not seing the benefit of the lobbies equaling the level of euphoria in the threads.

The maps are bigger . . . fair enough. That certainly does allow for more planning in some aspects, although a small map set (like CoD4) certainly isn't bereft of a need to organize and plan. And certainly the map feature in the lobbyroom offers a planning opportunity different/better than the traditional alternative, which for my team is jumping in a private match and walking the map organizing a gameplan).

Let me re-phrase the concern . . . what planning does the lobby allow that can't be done with voice chat? Sure, I can position the models to visually signify I want Bob to swoop into the village from the north side, but I assumed the Warhawk players are already saying "Bob, you swoop in from the north side . . . keep low until you pass the 2nd hill to avoid detection, then come roaring in between the two towers" or something to that effect.
Now, if you've got someobdy that doesn't know the map at all, then the visual assistance would help . . . but then again, if they're not familiar with the maps, then you run the risk of them losing their bearings, and then all the planning is useless, so I would assume you do the same thing with new players in Warhawk that you do with new players in any team game -- "new guy, stick with Fred, cover his ass until you're comfortable with the map."

Either you come into the lobby with a team/clan, in which case you all probably have a plan worked out, or you're dealing with 8 random people . . . in which case planning is dependent on everybody working as a team, and you run into the same issues with strangers whether you're planning via voice-chat or a map with icons.
Can you think of an example of planning that you could do in this lobby that's un-doable via voice-chat? I'm not asking as a challenge . . . as I said before, I've never played Warhawk, so perhaps there is something that I'm just not conceptualizing in the game. I imagined it as a very fast, seat-of-your pants style team combat game . . . the videos I've seen certainly give that impression. I just don't see the strategic benefit of the map planning under those circumstances . . . extremely neat and a nice benefit visually, but not much of a planning enhancement.




busboy33

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Gentlemen the war council is in session, to the war room.

k3nji

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Amazing Sony....And to think Nintendo cant even add text speak! People say that Sony are Innovative but god look at this people!

Soyerz

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> I'm pretty sure that you guys are missing the point when you say that it won't be useful. Sure for general play it's just a random distraction that isn't necessary (and you can easily treat it as such), but it's more useful to people in serious groups. In those cases people actually do have set plans as to how they are going to try to accomplish their objectives. Of course things change on the fly, but having a prior strategy allows everyone to get back to task once things calm down a bit.

Anemone

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> I think you guys are downplaying the Warhawk War Room...imagine making the highest ranked person with the most hours played the person in charge of your team..making sure everybody has a headset and gives orders to the rest of the team..I think it's brilliant..people act like there aren't clans out there that wouldn't love and use this feature all the time..I imagine the average Joe-blow or Sally-Rottencrotch won't be too into these features..but the people that are STILL playing Warhawk will be for sure.

qBIRD

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> .

@Cruithne: true! I think microsoft need to do some sereous thinking! The quality of service they charge for is slowly being overtaken by a free service! I've cancelled my Xbox live membership now in favor of PSN, and that was before all this news. Like rats from a sinking ship springs to mind!

GOD

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> In a perfect world (read: fantasy world) the "sand table" they're referring would look like the one used in the first X-Men film.

cheeses

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> home is too much of a hassle for me to get into games. i want something simpler, i dont wanna go in a little virtual room to get into games, i would like a matchmaking system in warhawk instead of this.

Qbisst

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> we need COD intergration

patsfan07

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> I think the upcoming game Endwar would be be great if they implement a feature like that in Home.

KYLE_ELYK

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @DelSource: first ive seen it man, where'd you find it?

TheIrishNinja

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @busboy33: You might want to take into consideration that Warhawk maps are incredibly huge. It's nothing like the claustrophobic COD4. Tactics do play a part of this game, the bigger the map, the more ways to win and lose.

Also, you might want to take into consideration that these Home rooms for each game are different, the developers actually choose something that they think will add to their game. At least that's the most logical way of seeing it.

I suggest you try out Warhawk. It's really fun.

Itchy (PSN: Kaizoku-ou)

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> OK, Home is growing on me. Little by little, but it'd growing on me.

dgonchild

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Plans work great in the beginning but unless you are in a clan, that first plan goes to hell after the first 1 minute.

ReyDEEEEZY

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> I'm sure I'll get tagged as a Sony hatah for this, but I'm not sure why the sploogegasms are popping off in here.

Is this a neat feature? Absolutely. A pre-match lobby that goes beyond the "list of names and countdown to launch" interface, and as someone who likes graphics that's neat.

But the language in here makes it sound like y'all are going to be planning the Battle of Waterloo, and that I just don't see.

If you've played a capture-the-point map more than a few times, I assume everybody you're playing with on a team knows where the points are.

::match start::
"Me and Dave are heading to two"
"I'm going to 3"
"Ed . . . you and Bob grab 4, Frank covers 1".

All of about 4 seconds with voice chat. Will gathering around a virtual map enhance the planning more than simply speaking? Again, it's "go-to-point-fight-and-capture-if-possible" with under 20 players per side. I'm not on the PS3 (yes I'm a 360-er) but isn't this how y'all plan battles in CoD4?

"3 going into building 2"
"sniper on the hill"
"I'm on the sniper"
"'bout 30 feet behind you"
"Somebody get those bastards out of 2"
"I'm on it"; "Me too -- going in the back"
"sniper's down"
. . . and so forth.

And I do have to agree with the nay-sayers that whatever pre-game plan you come up with is going to make a nice start, but is going to go right back to strategize-by-voice-chat-on-the-fly about 30 seconds into the match. If the strategic benefit is knowing where you are going initially, that's helpful but not the-next-step-in-gaming (again, don't you do this already?)

btw, does the match wait for all teams to be done strategizing, or does the game find the next available match with your pre-planned map? It could potentially suck if one team decides to "hang out" in the War Room, and the other team is stuck waiting for them.

Is it cool? yes. Is it pretty? Looks like. Will this change how you play? I guess we'll see, but I don't see how in a fast paced game like this.

This is going to sound like more Sony bashing, but for the people above saying they want "squads" with a team leader to direct a sub-team in the big battle . . . Frontlines does that. 4-person squads (voice chat is only among squad members to keep the chatter down) with respawns and such co-ordinated to the team leader.

Despite my criticisms, I'm not anti-Sony or anti-PS3. I'm just mystified at the religious experiences described above. Chainsaw duels in Gears2 will be a great addition, but "OMG GREATEST EVER TOTALLY AWESOME MS WILL RULE!!!" would be too much.











busboy33

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Mahale: Warhawk isn't any fps...it's a TPS...third person shooter....

sainraja

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> How will this work with co-op & split screen? Can 4 people sharing a PS3 & screen still use this, or will it just be player 1 in control of the sandbox?

StevenRafael

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Wow! The features described here on Kotaku are... totally great! And not something you are seeing on any other platform! I was really not that excited about Home but I had no idea the "hooks" Sony was providing was gonna let them build pretty much whatever they wanted. I assumed it was just gonna be t-shirts and trophies and junk.

Anyway... I love it. There's no doubt that they will be used, at the very least, by first parties. Imagine what you will get with "2nd gen" HOME integration in Resistance 2, ICO 3, God of War 3, LittleBigPlanet, etc.

Good to see the haters are out in force, it wouldn't be a PS3 thread anywhere on the internet without them!

chantastic

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> so fucking cool.

joelface

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Mahale: It's not an FPS. Though it sorta kinda plays a little bit like one, but not really hardly at all. And it's good. Very good.

baked ham

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> It's cool, but it strikes me as a lot of flash without a ton of purpose. How often are you playing these kinds of matches? It worries me that this another example of both Sony and Microsoft furthering hardcore-type features and not expanding to the casual gamers that are going to make the systems take off.

I posted in the other Home thread that I just feel like Home is so much stuff that just seems like cool window dressing. If they don't make some things easier what's the point? Like how easy it is to play with friends on Live and in some PS3 games it's such a pain to set up rooms and find/play with friends. Is it going to be easy for us all to get into all these features and then into games? Because it still comes down to easily playing the good games you want with the people you want, no matter how cool the features are.

I am definitely interested in fooling around with Home but I just have this fear that it's gonna be cool for a bit and then be kind of a time-sucking pain in the butt. Time will tell. Just release it already!

lionkitten

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @DelSource: the next home update maybe?

DrunkRaba

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Honestly, I'll have to use it before I buy into it. In the recent past, Sony has done an excellent job at promoting features that aren't nearly as good as claimed. I'll definitely keep my eyes on this, but I'm not going to be won over by a press release ;)

jayntampa

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> so you can launch the game normally...OORR YOU COULD START A GAME THROUGH HOME!!!! i dont understand why thats such a huge deal, i mean its like sony is beating around the bush trying to innovate what needs not inovating...i dont care if i can or cannot play a game without quitting home, i just want to play a good game!

last_dread

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @DelSource:

Um... Wow, no, I haven't. Would carry more weight if I know who the hell is running the site.

PapaBear434

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Talking 'bout Home, anyone else seen this?

[www.colorize.net]

DelSource

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Tale: It's not the same. Achievements are persistent throughout the entire system. All this stuff, except for the Uncharted minigame are particularly for a game. If you hve to put the disc in what's the point of having a different environment instead of just doing it all as part of the game interface. There could certainly be some cool things done with this, but this stuff was obviously kept out of the game just to push home.

t0yrobo

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Wow, wasn't super impressed with the Uncharted stuff and I really dig the sound of the radio transmissions for Resistance, but THIS here takes the cake. If you keep doing stuff like this, Sony, stuff that MS should have been doing with Live, and then PS3 will truly be the next gen system....

Raidei

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> I have not been this happy since the Patriots lost the superbowl! I simply cannot wait for Home now. It can't drop soon enough.

Straw_Dog

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> I bet there will be a ton of people in the first month or so just playing around with strategies in the war room then actually playing the game. I'm probably gonna be one of those people.

HoxtonHero

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @BlackANUS: One things is how and how gamers who don't have a certain games might still be able to peek into these game-specific lobbies. The other things is a matter of ease of development and standardization between lobbies. I guess the question is the degree Sony provides a common set of development tools for home. They need to hit a sweet spot between allowing individual expression for developers versus complete chaos and lack of support.

gozirah

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @gamadaya: Man, do you just constantly spout ignorance? Please tell me where you got that Bioshcok is being developed for the PS3? If I am wrong, I apologize, but unless you have some inside source, it hasn't been stated anywhere that it is.
----------------------------------------
On another note, congrats Sony. Home is looking nice.



I_Hate_This_Place

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> "Buh buh buh teh Homez is teh Sims!!"
xD In your face suckers.

phosphor112

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> My two cents? Whatever.

Unless you're actually in a party of people who can follow your 'orders' or you have some way of referencing your 'strategy' to see how on-or-off your strategy you are, I'm not so sure how effective this will be.

It really just doesn't make me think anything is incredibly innovative as many people seem to suggest.

If this was something that had an effect on your in-game experience it would be a much more interesting proposition.

I guess I'm just not impressed at all with all this hooplah over things that,far as I can tell, really don't add anything. WOAH, I CAN WALK AROUND LEVELS? SWEET. I mean, in reality, the 2D game in Uncharted is the only thing that I think is really "cool" about any of these.

MIKEAWESOME

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @cruithne

No it will be named

Home: Go suck a fat one Microsoft.

Father-Time

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Maybe a simple question...but what does this really have to do with Home?

What is Home adding to the equation that simply cannot be built right into the game lobby made by the game makers.

As an example...Dead or Alive 4 on the 360 has a lobby system with a TV that you can watch the current match, in addition to allowing you to customize with 3D characters, etc.

Does it add a room permanently in your house and not require you to have the disk in/download down?

Talvish

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @eggfou: Goddamn it Leeroy.

jetsmanfoley

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Striderhayasa - Phillyyakk on PSN and Live.: I understand folks dropping out when the stats were glitchy. Hope they'll come back. It's the only game I keep up with and can be social on.

krokus

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @DexterNoodlesGreg:
Oh yeah, and I'm in college. I'm not exactly made of money. I would love to get a PS3 now, but I just don't have the cash, and I'm still not sure I should sell my 360. I guess when my brother builds his PC this summer, I might be able to sell my 360, but definatly not until then.


gamadaya

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @TheIrishNinja: In that interview with the new xbl guy on kotaku I remember him saying there is going to be a new games blade. I know its more to do with xna stuff but I think the current games blade is a mess. Its cool to see what my friends are playing and if i can join but that needs to be on top not inside other menus. Im sure they are taking baby steps so it all comes together because MS has known home is coming for a year now so lets hope they keep one upping each other!

I've always liked the idea of home. Just like how I enjoy using my Mii in Wii games because I feel more involved. But I also love live haha. Gaming rules!

Gunloc

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @DexterNoodlesGreg:
But Bioshock is in developement for the PS3, I was never crazy about gears, and now Mass Effect is going to the PC. I didn't waste my money, but I think it would have been better to either get a PS3 or a good PC. All of the 360 games I currently have are, or will, be much better on the PC.


gamadaya

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> So, you can carefully plan out your battles. Then, once you get in the game people will just run off and do what they want, ignoring the plan.

eggfou

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Accordion: uh...what? do you mean in their first/second party development? Nintendo is not my favorite company right now but I still believe they are better software developers than SCE overall. Nintendo seems to constantly do things with their hardware that other less talented developers say is impossible. I can't make quite the same claim for SCE.

@krokus: add me. I would add you now but I'm still wasting away at work. Don't feel too bad though. I have quite a few friends that are registered in Warhawk but they never play. It's sad because some of these people still have the glitched profiles. The ones where they only have 1500 rank points and 10 hours of play but they're Command Marshals. Shows you they haven't played since the server update in October/November 07.

Striderhayasa - Phillyyakk on PSN and Live.

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> So every game has a room variant for Home? Interesting...

PsycheDiver

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Wow, actually, VERY cool. I was a bit concerned about the previous two "really, really cool" contributions, but this actually sounds functional and fun. Props!

Pilote.de.Ciel

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Torgen thinks AAA means "Costs $60":

While true, i have bought a PS2 for the first/second party games and i bought the PS3 for the same reason.

What SCE has that surpasses Nintendo is diversity… and innovation within the market…

Accordion

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> i want a war room in my home!
the real one i mean...

symphony_of_the_night

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @glitched: That's a good point. But why make installs mandatory to play the game when some people may never use the Home features. They could just as easily install the necessary assets the first time you enter the corresponding game room in Home, i.e. "insert your game disc to install Home room for ____"

BTW - Sony hasn't made installs mandatory. That decision is made independently by each developer. Capcom is to blame for mandatory installs on DMC4 and Lost Planet not Sony.

rawg

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Not like anybody will read this comment way on the second page of comments, but maybe this is why sony was moving towards mandatory installs of its games? that way you dont have to have the disk in the system to enter in a room or level from every game you own, because theres already content on your system from the game? Imagin GT5 doing a mandatory install and uncharted 2 having a mandatory install, you can seamlessly walk into your garage that is attached to your apartment pick a car and either start a race or drive to your vacation home on an island in the uncharted world! whoa.

glitched

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> its a good week to be a PS3 owner

Captain Fury

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Wouldn't it make more sense to have all of these 'extras' be a part of the extras of the game rather than a part of the home experience?

BlackANUS

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @gamadaya: Why not just get a PS3 now, its not too late, Most good games havent even come out yet, and you didnt waste your money on a 360, you got to play Gears, Bioshock, and Mass Effect and we didnt.

DexterNoodlesGreg

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @pikachumariachi:
You summed up my fealings almost exactly (except the mac part). I fucking hate Sony for doing this. They consistantly fuck up for a year, make it look like they have no chance of making the PS3 as fun as the 360, and then, after I gave up on them, they come out with stuff like this. I'm starting to wish I had waited before I got a 360. But MS started so strong, and now it seems like they've just stopped caring. Refusing to make HDD's mandatory, refusing to host dedicated servers on their paid online network, constant hardware problems... just irritating as hell. I have never picked the more popular system in any generation, and I really hope I didn't waste my money again.


gamadaya

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Aex: Too bad its not a FPS lol

DexterNoodlesGreg

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Home is shaping up to be really really interesting, Ive been telling people that Sony has high hopes and now its showing, hopefull 3rd parties will do this as well. I cant imagine a MGS4 room......aaaaaaaaaa ya

DexterNoodlesGreg

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> I have to admit, this is an awesome idea.

creid

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Today is a good day for Sony. They just sold Home. It is obviously going to be a platform for developers to expand their titles and offer creative extras to consumers. I was getting worried about the aforementioned Second Life but more boring aspect.

BornToFlail

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Microsoft, what the fuck? Why does PSN have all these awesome features, is free, and has games with dedicated servers, while I'm paying $5 a month for an inferior product?

gamadaya

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Anybody on Kotaku play this with any regularity??? Please add me. I'm orange-taiko (lame...I know, but i downloaded Warhawk and can't switch to one of my hilarious pun account names). I have one or three of you on my buddy list, but you're never playing Warhawk.

krokus

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> If Home gets any more awesome, they're going to have to rename it Sony: Chuck Norris

Cruithne

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @GUNLOC_MORIYM: a clan blade would be pretty cool to see. off topic, but didnt they say clan support was coming soon?
yeah, i hope this all sparks innovation and more shit for us.

TheIrishNinja

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Couldnt publishers just add these kinds of features into the games themselves? its a cool idea, but you dont need "Home" to implement it, theyre just cool ideas for pregame lobbys...which you could have for any game.... in any console.

hyped89

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @NegativeGhostrider: Yes bring on the competition! MS are you going to take this? I mean its not like we havent been asking for a clans blade and group chat outside of games since live came out :p This is cool props Sony!

Gunloc

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Why not wait till we see how the interface for this works before getting too excited.

Milkham

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @DanimalJenkins: you get shot down a lot don't you? You're the first to get shot aren't you?

Striderhayasa - Phillyyakk on PSN and Live.

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @zPhreak: I meant if you compare the first year of the 360 with the first year of the PS3.

FP_slomo788

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @zPhreak:

I'm pretty sure Sony outsold MS during the Holidays too (could be wrong though). Still not much but its a helluva start

Sparx

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Dude, I wish the Xbox 360 had something like this. I hope Microsoft takes note alongside with their horrid hardware problems. Seriously, the next XBL update NEEDS something like this.

NegativeGhostrider

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Never played Warhawk...is it complex enough of a game to gain something from the mini strategy map thing? If so this will be a cool addition to those who play it.

GPman

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @DanimalJenkins: oh hay, you know they made a warhawk for PS3, yeah?

TheIrishNinja

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @slomo788: PS3 outsold 360 worldwide for one month, not the year.

zPhreak

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> I'm going to have to agree with everyone who said this will help out. There are a lot of people who will just wander around not knowing what to do.

GRAB THE FLAG IT"S RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU!

GET SOME WARHAWKS IN THE AIR!

CAPTURE A BASE MORONS!

This should really help out with all of that.

Aflack: Likes slushies

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> I wonder if this is the loophole R* was talking about when they said it'd be possible to give Sony the 360 "exlusive" DLC while not violating the contract. Man that'd really be a kick in the ass

Sparx

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Striderhayasa - Phillyyakk on PSN and Live.: I second that. Sony PR has knocked it out of the park this week. Just in time to influence the decisions of millions of PS2 owners who are in the market for an HD console to play GTAIV.

@slomo788: well said!

rawg

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Madeira: so cool, it's hot!

@pikachumariachi: hah, fair enough, tho i think a lot of the feedback over the next year's gonna be from upset gamers who were convinced wii60 was where everything cool was gonna stay.

@Torgen thinks AAA means "Costs $60": so, only madden makes this model relevant? you're getting further from the point, i fear.
and the GTA content, we've yet to see if its even worth it for them yet, though for MS sake, i hope it is.

if you're a 3rd party dev with another chance to hype/ad your game, or try to push sales along after the first week or two's over with new, flashy content, im completely lost where youre making this a negative thing for them.

@Torgen thinks AAA means "Costs $60": ok, i sorta see your direction there but you speak as if 3rd party devs dont want to see sales on a system even if its got less install base at the moment.
with tons of $ going into in-game advertising, how can you figure this looks to stay a first/2nd party show?

@reptile168: i think you're missing the concept of getting a game out the gate, and adding things later.

@Black-Dog-Howls: any news like that from camp kojima'd make my day, man.

@slomo788: well said.

TheIrishNinja

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Home is becoming better then I thought it would be but you have to thank Incognito for implementing this into Warhawk. They have showed great support for that game and I hope it doesn't stop soon.

WolfGod

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Ok Now hoe gta4 makes home really, really cool. And you can walk around liberty city! Hey, I can dream right?

KnaveX

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Wow, so now if they release some sort of update for Warhawk that makes it fun, we'll be set.

DanimalJenkins

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> look at the haters... still hatin... "oh it won't get used" lol what a joke

Thomaticus

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @V1L3: LOL - but you can only gain entry if you unlock the "big pimpin" accomplishment in game.

rawg

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @V1L3: You're in a car and you ram over prostitutes for points. Oh, and there are leaderboards.

FP_slomo788

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> a bit random, but they neeeed to do something like this with socom!

TriFF51

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Ah, shades of World War II. I love it.

It's still gonna be free though, right? Not counting the cost of buying the game, that is.

Frank

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> This sounds way better then how Sony originally described home. The only issue is how many developers will go the extra mile and take advantage of the feature.

parad0x360

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Belias: I can answer that one. Both. When you bought the blu-ray version it actually makes you install warhawk (the whole game) onto the PS3. You just need the disk to play it.

Rabidsquirrel

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Torgen thinks AAA means "Costs $60": Dude, everybody is betting on Sony this year. The MGS4 bundle, all the sick games, Home... Even EA thinks that PS3 will beat 360 this year. Sony just showed the PhyrEngine to devs during GDC, everyone is either developing for both consoles separately or starting PS3 (LucasArts, Criterion, etc). PS3 sold better than 360 month for month despite the competition. If Home means more sales, not only will devs try to implement it but they will use their heads to make it on par with the first-party level of excellence (like these) 3 games, ultimately making it better than Achievements. And anyways, the fact that Madden does not use Home does not make it less amazing when games like Resistance and Warhawk do.

FP_slomo788

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Akmed: dude, I'm still trying to absorb all of the great PS3 news this week. I'm in a daze. Sony just became a juggernaut again literally overnight. It's like Sony got it together and beat the shit out of toshiba and then turned around and looked at Wii and 360 and said "you're next muthabitches!"

Striderhayasa - Phillyyakk on PSN and Live.

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> All that planning only to fall apart within seconds as soon as the match starts and no one does what they are supposed to do.

Woo!

ArmyofJuan

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Any thoughts on what kind of bonus "Home room" GTA4 would have?

My guess... strip club.

V1L3

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Ok, I didn't know what to think of Home before this, but if they pull off what you just described I am so SOLD. (Though I already have a PS3)

theflux

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Black-Dog-Howls:

free girlie mags upon entry =)

Sparx

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Moonshadow101:

SO? At least we get to make naughty shapes with the troop and vehicle markers :D

Assume the "Phallus Formation"!

Bando

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @ittekimasu: In my mind I thought of Psychonauts and the Waterloo World level where you were looking at the miniature of the two armies.

Cool would be T-shirts that displayed all your ribbons and medals.In that tuxedo T-shirt style.

jackal888

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Finally something that looks interesting for Home, but then again, games should have those functions integrated from the beginning.

reptile168

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Torgen thinks AAA means "Costs $60": Let me add that this would be less of an issue if PS3 was leading, because being competitive in the larger market could justify the extra expense of the Home integration. (Like Achievements on X360, although those are way cheaper to implement than Home features.) If/when PS3 passes X360, it would not surprise me if third party Home integration increased.

Torgen got his apology faceplate but not his fixed GH3 disc

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Its pretty awesome and all, but I have a question about this, the game lauches directly from Home, but is it for the download version or retail version of the game? or both?

So that means that I should have the game disc (retail version) in the PS3 when using Home and it will start without any disc booting or something, just diving directly into the match??

FP Belias

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Piraat: LOOOL. Joke of the week.

FP_slomo788

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @TheIrishNinja: dude, Warhawk is one of the most addictive online experiences I've had the pleasure of playing. the only negative I have is playing with total idiots that don't understand the concept of "Zone". Kids that want to fly...attempt to fly as you constantly see the remains of their warhawk shower the area in a field of flaming debris... and don't understand you have to be on the ground to take a zone.

anyways...this is the best so far. I hardly play my other consoles now but the way things are progressing, I may not touch anything else other than my PS3,PSP and DS.

Good job Sony...Strong move

Striderhayasa - Phillyyakk on PSN and Live.

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Next up, "How Kojima Productions makes Home Really, Really Cool."

To feature PMC board rooms for MGO. Human Scale Metal Gear Replicas to battle like giant action figures featuring Rex, Ray, the Shagohad, Raxa, and Gekkos. Dance Dance Vamp Revolution arcade games, MG and MG2 also included as arcade games.

Crotch grabbing is allowed in Metal Gear territory. Obligatory "!" to be provided for use with in the space.

Black-Dog-Howls

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> It makes me happy that Home will be out by the time I get a PS3 so I don't have to wait. :D

Samos42

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> I have... FURY! It's fury mainly because things were all nice and good when there were only two really good looking systems (Wii60) and, while it took some hardships, I could afford them. Now they're filling the PS3 with bunches of awesome features and there's the MGS4 bundle and I'd love to buy it but I've barely got money for Smash Bros Brawl right now and I have to fix my iMac, which is going to be A LOT of money. I HATE U SONY (for suddenly being so cool)!

pikachumariachi

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Sony finally has my attention, now just come out with some decent games so I can use it for more than Rockband. KThx.

Piraat

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Black-Dog-Howls: Dude - that was a good idea. You should get PAID!

rawg

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> I'll admit I'm impressed by Sony right now. 2008 is looking better every day for this company, and if it can keep up the momentum with innovations like this, people will forget they were ever 3rd this generation.

Luv2Hate

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Can you make a sand castle with said sand table?

balls187

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Moonshadow101: Wrong. You can change plan on the fly using the voice chat. But it's nice to know you can plan ahead where to put your people in the map and who's going to do what to the enemy.

Evo

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> wooo i hope they allow avatar's to wear little war hats while in here. Can't wait for this to come out.

ittekimasu

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> So after months of bungling along and PR boasting, riding a wave of arrogance on the back of the success of PS1 & 2, Sony are FINALLY starting to get their act together with the PS3 and show some vision beyond "MORE POWA!!!". This is a good thing, but they should have sorted their shit out from the start.

I hope they've learned their lesson.

ErskinPig

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Very nice. I'll give my warning orders when Home is launched

Hylian

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @TheIrishNinja: If we see a "How Madden '09 makes Home Really, Really Cool" post I'll admit I was wrong, but MS already got bit this generation by paying out the ass for console-specific content and having Rockstar give both targets console-specific content instead of just X360. Sony will either have to suck it up and let that happen in exchange for multi-plat games supporting Home, or they'll keep the Home subsidies close to the chest and put the third parties at a disadvantage.

Torgen got his apology faceplate but not his fixed GH3 disc

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> I posted an idea like that the moment they announced home last year at GDC. <.<

PAY ME MA MONIES SONY!

Black-Dog-Howls

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Akmed:

has anyone even SEEN it? yet alone heard of it? i'm suprised nobody replied to me yet...

Akmed

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Pretty soon kids are going to be hanging out with their friends in the city streets of Midgar, via Home and a FFVII remake (that we all know will one day come) instead of in real life, and instead of actually playing a game.
Damn, I love the future. I wish I had toys like that as a kid. Hanging out in some of my favorite videogame locals with my buddies instead of being trapped inside of the games narrative sounds like something out of the holodeck.
Wow, it's been a long time since any gaming news has made me nerd out like this. JRPG AND Star Trek references?

kuzuboshii

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @GregoriusH: You sir need to invest in a thesaurus... :P

rawg

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @PapaBear434:

hopefull soon PapaBear434, like sometime before the end of march. I'm anxious to get back in to Warhawk and do something clan related

Sparx

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @scottyboy218: I'd love to see this put into a shooter. Where you could have a "captain" who could ping spots on a map before the game.

I think that's the point of the sand table replica. I do agree with you that it's difficult to get any kind of coordinated effort from a pick up group. However, for premades and clan vs. clan this will be awesome.

Like Mike Tyson once said, "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face."

rawg

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Home is so hot- it's cool!

Madeira

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Moonshadow101: you might be right about implementing plans on the fly, with the nature/speed of the game, but its still a cool option, not sure how it comes off as "desperate", whereas a flyer with a "Home" logo would, for instance.

TheIrishNinja

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Ok, so... When do you guys release it? You have me sold already, how about you put the shit out now?

PapaBear434

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Torgen thinks AAA means "Costs $60": Anytime an innovative idea is shown, there are ten people to point out a possible flaw. What have you added to the idea, nothing.

I agree that Sony products have an advantage on HOME but Sony has to lead the way. Showing others what will work on HOME.This idea is great and can show a benefit HOME can have on a game.
EA is not hurting for a budget or talent.I am sure there will be an EA Sports room with fooseball tables, and advertisements all over.

jackal888

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> I think this would also be fun to relive the fun moments with your friends, show them good hiding places, general tactics etc rather than just meeting before a match (I've not played Warhawk but play all the battlefield series / COD4 etc). Bring on the warroom - all team based shooters need one!!

MysteryMachine

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> This sounds very cool!

Flurp

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> That is beyond awesome. So far beyond awesome that it's.... it's awesome. But more than awesome, somehow greater than awesome.

GregoriusH

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Thats fucking AWESOME!

rawg

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Very cool idea, but I could see it turning into a big argument every game, or half the people ignoring it. People try and bark orders in shooters all the time, and someone always F's it up. Even basic stuff like "every rush bomb site A" (cod4) you've got people off doing there own thing, and it's pointless. But like I said, it's a very cool idea.

I'd love to see this put into a shooter. Where you could have a "captain" who could ping spots on a map before the game.

scottyboy218

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> With stuff like this it makes HOME seem more than just a gimick, in fact I'm getting real excited about it.

Morberis

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @DCPlayaPride: youd think, but you'd be wrong. it just stays less justified is all. trust me, even the MGS4 rumors continue. i swear, God of War 3, FF XIII etc came out tomorrow and were the best of the series so far, you'd still have baseless bashing cause it was so cool in early '07.

@Torgen thinks AAA means "Costs $60": wow, you're all kinds of bitter about all this, arent you? digging deep for the N64 analogy too, you're really coming off as a fine example of what i was just telling DCPlayerPride there.

TheIrishNinja

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> i dont want to be pain in the ass but why only 8? the game is for maximum 16 persons per team °-°". what if a big clan fights for virtual glory?

ibunkun

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @t0yrobo: The same could be said of XBox Live's Achievement system. But it's integrated into the service as a kind of trick to get people to be excited for the service and use the service so that they populate the service.

Tale

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Sony is OWNING this week!

wef

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Moonshadow101: Wow, so wrong on so many points. Chat is supported for changing things on the fly though.

silentbob343

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> War room map idea is the one GREAT idea out of all this, I would like that kind of feature in every team based game. Everything else, meh.

SAKY

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @DCPlayaPride:

not bloodly likely. Its nice to dream though =(

Sparx

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> The Sony bashing is going to stop really...really soon.

DCPlayaPride

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Mahale: As others have said, all the on foot combat is in third person. Personally, I think the foot combat is ok, but I absolutely adore running the missile turrets/flak cannons and flying. I've spent way too much time in the dogfight only maps. Easily worth $40.

smitty1123

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> This stuff is really cool and all. But they could have just done it in game instead of with home.

t0yrobo

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> starting to look like a PS3 crossover

kinda like smash bros ehh?
...


(俗・ ) Grey Gecko

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> WOW!!!

jutaro

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> It's great to see key developers taking advantage of HOME, but I wonder, once the thing finally rolls out, how many more of them are actually gonna make the extra effort that Naughty Dog/Incognito/Insomniac have shown so far? Like, *for example* would Konami do something special for MGS4?

Not every game will need extra features like this obviously, but especially for the multi-platform/exclusive games, HOME extras could tip the scale in Sony's favor.

DragonSphere

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Moonshadow101: That's the dumbest interpretation of this if I've seen one. Is Microsoft desperate with Achievements or they wanted to try something new to attract gamers? Warhawk's maps seem large enough to emulate a real battlefield, and any soldier would take you for a donkey for saying that planning in stupid. All in all, it's a much better way to focus players on the game instead of yelling "faggot!" and "retard!" left and right.

FP_slomo788

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Moonshadow101:

no one said you had to stick to the plan the entire match. I see this more as a basic outline. I see this working extremely well in Zones matches where everyone knows where they should go instead of having 4 people fly to the same zone to capture it and 1-2 others are left to capture the other 3 or 4 areas. Plus you can designate who could defend and area and label primary zones to go after should one be taken by the opposing team. You could also use this to split your team into defense and capture squads on Capture the Flag games

Sparx

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Samuraidino: Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

ForwardInReverse

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Prediction: Sony first and second party teams have the cost of developing Home features subsidized by Sony as an investment against system sales, but third parties have to foot the bill themselves. If they don't bother (why should EA care if you buy a PS3 instead of an X360 if Madden is on both?) their offerings don't compare favourably to the first and second party offerings, leading to a similar situation as Nintendo had on N64 with their "dream team".

Torgen got his apology faceplate but not his fixed GH3 disc

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @dsmx: Damn it, you beat me to it...

bobtheduck

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Ahh Jimmy, heres 3 soldiers and a cannon versus 4 calvary and 2 soldiers.

We're playing Risk here Jimmy, head in the game.

Shocky

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Mahale: You're in luck it isn't a FPS.

silentbob343

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> If only I had friends...

ibelli

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> This is a pretty great idea. I can't wait to do this when I grab a ps3 eventually.

Dauragon C. Mikado

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Cool, but will go completely un-used.

Winterbringer

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Oh my damn that is awesome! Might actually get me to start playing again. I stopped cause i thought the expansion was a ripoff.

snakepliskin

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Wow. That's pretty awesome. Whenever you're ready sony, we've been waiting for it for a while ^_^

Dorphat the Insomniac

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Not really moonshadow. If you can have one "commander" in home giving orders to his entire team of 10-20 people on what to do and the enemies probable positions during the game it's plenty useful. Warhawk is a team game that's one of the reasons it comes with a you know. Mic.

NessD12

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @Nexus6:

A pattern of AWESOME?

Pai Pai Master

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> @icepick314: I think I'd rather them taking as much time as it takes to make it perfect, instead of rushing it out. I've been enjoying my PS3 and two of these great games without Home, I'm sure I can survive a few weeks without the extra goodness.

FP_slomo788

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Remember no fighting in the war room.

dsmx

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Im sorry for Kotaku when the Sony Ninja's get you in your sleep

Violater

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> This is nearly too much on the good news department. Home has been delayed for so long, and I guess they are now showing reasons why. I can only imagine later games features and actually has me excited as what they'll come up with as little fun benefits.

超外人

]]> <![CDATA[How Warhawk Makes Home Really, Really Cool]]> Virtual war planning?? Yes I am there.
If we start using terms like Opfor and force multipliers,then my pregnant gf is gonna see me outside the delivery room with my PS3 and the hospital tv hooked up laying out brilliant war