A unique third-person shooter combining on-foot combat with real-time base building. Innovative concept but online servers are now closed, significantly limiting the multiplayer experience that was at its core.
TPS by Lightbox Interactive transposing Hawks into a Build & Battle space frontier. Published by Sony Computer Entertainment, released in May 2012 in Asia, Europe, Scandinavia, Japan, the UK and North America. Emmett Graves space cowboy contaminated by Rift Energy defending human frontier colonies against mutant Outcasts, over five campaign missions in cel-shading cinematics, TPS gameplay with Build & Battle system to build defensive structures mid-combat, signature online multiplayer mode for up to thirty-two players in Settlers versus Outcasts teams, Hawk transformation mechanic for jet mecha on foot and in air, over eight massive maps reproducing the space frontier, English voice-over with Crispin Freeman as Emmett.
A Sony action shooter mixing ground combat, piloting and building of structures deployed mid-battle, heir to Warhawk in a more ambitious formula. The title relied heavily on an online multiplayer now extinct, which adds a dimension of witness to its physical existence. Its Asian edition stays less common than the Western versions, and its interest owes to this regional scarcity as much as to a singular hybrid concept.
