Starhawk, what to say about this online beta? That is the question here. Starhawk is the sequel to the “ye-old” Warhawk game that came out around when the Playstation 3 launched, course having never played that I have no reference to go to here. The beta is strictly an online mode only, and a capture the flag only! Meh. If you try to select any other option like Team Death Match it automatically sends you into the CTF mode of the bat. Boring modes to showcase. Anyways, firing this bitch up was a pain the first night, with constant errors that servers were down, it didn’t even run. Once I got into the game the next day I got to see what she was all about. It basically plays like Red Fraction Guerilla in the third person sense and has some little Section 8 mixed with some RTS/Tower defence flares added in. I only played one map I believe, fair size with different “rocky” space like terrain. To deploy your character pick a spot on the map marked in a section (green zone) and you come flying down in a tube to the ground. Hence the Section 8 reference. Once out, you have the option to build up your base with whatever fucking weird currency the game uses? I couldn’t figure that out for the life of me. You can build turrets, walls, barracks, vehicle stations, and jet pack stations. Once built your team can utilize all the tools cast from each. It’s a really ambitus attempt at something here, but I can’t put my finger on it, confusion is what I got once I first started playing. The shooting mechanics in the game, the main thing, are not good at all. Sloppy guns with no real sense of the weapons used in this universe. The dumbest thing is you get a rifle off the bat, if you want more weapons to roll with you have to walk around this shitty base your team made and look for it the “barracks”. There are NO directions/tags to anything so they all look like generic Red Faction looking buildings. Gameplay is just poor, even with the constant updates and patches day by day , I seen no true improvements. The jets are probably the coolest thing in the game, they fly around streaking neon trails, and can transform into mech on the ground. It’s basically a Warkhawk jet that transforms into a transformer. I was really bored with the game after one round and never really wanted to play it again, I only played more each day because I wanted to see what was improved. My character level was always reset to 1, so no progress was ever made in the game, awful! I have no idea who this game is designed for, but there must be an audience somewhere, right?