Many games take years to develop and master and then in some cases cost you an arm and a leg just to enjoy the game. Then whenever they are free to play games they usually aren’t worth the time as it will usually have micro transactions hidden around every corner.
However there is one free to play game that looks incredible and even uses a new PhysX feature that is really beautiful when you see it in action. Hawken is an action-packed, fast-paced, free-to-play, mech-based, multiplayer first-person shooter, set in a visually-rich future setting destroyed by corporate greed.
The gane has been developed using Unreal Engine 3, which is really what all the great games these days are using ( like Gears of War 3 etc). This makes Hawken look fantastic, putting players in the cockpits of lethal mechs, each with their own weapons, loadouts, and perks.
Through kills and match victories, players will rank up and unlock new items for their mechs to make them unique on the battlefield, opening up new tactical opportunities and new play styles. Being a free-to-play title, players also have the option of speeding progress along through the use of real money transactions, though these do not grant additional power or a competitive edge over players who progress through exclusively through the use of experience.
On the tech side of things, Hawken is a tour de force, sporting the aforementioned, advanced Unreal Engine 3 graphics, but also GPU-accelerated NVIDIA only PhysX effects that add destruction particles, extra, and realistic weapon effects.
This video also demonstrates a soon-to-come PhysX feature in Hawken: APEX Turbulence. APEX Turbulence is a PhysX feature which uses velocity fields to simulate particle motion. You will see this in action inside of Hawken with energy collectors, mech death embers, deployed shields, and mech health orb embers.
