Hawken Critic Reviews

Old-school shooter is sharp and with its perfect visuals is also additive and deadly.

They've nailed the sensation of stomping around in a giant machine, but the F2P model needs an oil change.

Quotation forthcoming.

If you're a fan of battling bots, Hawken is definitely worth checking out, and you should certainly have some free, fleeting fun with it right off the bat. But as the game lumbers towards an official release, I really hope they dial down the mechanized money magnets.

Very ambitious, but we’d urge them to concentrate on the game; with poor matchmaking, few maps, overly simple game modes and a limited free game, players might not stick around. And that would be a shame.

Hawken shows that piloting a mech doesn't have to be a complex task, and it gets players straight into the action.

It's a fun diversion, to be sure, but with its less-than-extensive customization options, absurd reliance on grinding to incentivize microtransactions, and limited variation in actual gameplay, it probably isn't worth a monetary investment.