What’s up PS Blog and fellow Warheads? I’ve been working on Warhawk since 2007 and I represent the other half of the Santa Monica Studio/LightBox Interactive partnership. I’m sure you all know about the Santa Monica team from the God of War series. What you might not know is that we’ve been working with LightBox since the studio opened its doors, helping the team get started on this exciting new project. We’ve been contributing to the Starhawk development process creatively and on the biz side of things. It’s been a true collaboration — we’re thrilled to be working with the talented group at LightBox.
Lots of you are wondering how Build & Battle fits in with the Warhawk recipe of “frenetic epic firefights,” so today we wanted to give you a taste of what we will have playable at E3 next week! This is a video of an actual multiplayer tournament we had recently at the LightBox studio.
As you know Starhawk also has a cool single-player campaign that will immerse you in the story of our main character, Emmett Graves, but as you can see we have not forgotten about our multiplayer roots! We’ve designed Starhawk’s multiplayer to be just as much fun as Warhawk’s, but now with our new Build & Battle toy box, you shooter fans will have something you haven’t truly experienced before – the ability to change the battlefield on the fly. We’ll have more details on Starhawk’s multiplayer soon, but for now we invite you to come visit us at E3!
Thanks a ton for the amazing reactions to Starhawk thus far. I can honestly say that we’ve only scratched the surface so look out for more info in the months ahead.
And if you want more Starhawk info, there are lots of ways to reach us. Register on StarhawkTheGame.com, hop on the Starhawk official forums, and join in on the conversations. The PlayStation.Blog is also a great spot, of course. As you’ve seen, Dylan has spent a lot of time trying to answer your questions and he’ll continue to do so. He also has a Twitter account that you can follow, @dylanjobe, where you can find out about Starhawk and ask him questions…or just see what he had for dinner. We can’t answer all of your questions just yet but we pay close attention to what you, the fans, are talking about and what’s most important to you.
Please comment away and, again, thanks for your continued support.
1. Crashing and flaming hawks….. Excellent!!!
2. Hawks transforming mid-air ….. Excellent!!!
3. Bubble shield deployment ….. Excellent !!!
Mid – term report……. Could do better …….. kidding !!!
Loved how fast paced the action was in that vid. Really have high hopes for the game.
One question is can structured be “recalled” by the person placing them or be “build over” if required? (ie – replace a sniper tower with a wall for example?
Good Question!
Yes, you will ultimately be able to however there are a couple of different ways we can support it and we haven’t decided on which way is best.
Currently we’re thinking that it would be an option from the Control Panel on the Build & Battle structure. Demo’ing the structure might then return you some fraction of the Rift Energy you spent to construct it.
But there are a number of other options and we haven’t picked the final solution yet.