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This is the first 'Battlemap'. It recreates a fleet action without the bother of going through all the building and resource collecting associated with all other maps. It offers an extremely tense situation, and as a FFA provides serious action right from the the word go!
Like the epic battles of Midway and the Pacific where fighter planes brought the fight to each other from their carriers and support, this map is all about fighter action. Hellhawk has created a fantastic battle here, rather than a map. It's an engagement where forces of equal strength go at it "hammers-and-tongs" and only those who utilise their fighter wing and "support" the best will win (If you would call the main fleet of 4 superheavy capital ships and 2 carriers the "support"). It's all about tactics, strategy and the ruthless crushing of enemy fighters in some truly awesome engagements!
The only downer I have on this game would be the lag, on a slow computer it would be a nightmare. The hosts of a couple online games I've played in have upped the resource injections from the basic of 35 up to thousands of RU's every few minutes, irreparably destroying the strategy options created by Hellhawk and turning it into a "he who has the fastest comp/connection wins" as thousands of fighters engage in some truly epic 1 frame per minute battles... So do yourself a favour, get this map and play it as Hellhawk intended.
A true epic that nestles on my CPU along with the other greats like Genesis and Jovian Rings. It deserves to be on everyone's computer for what it is.
Overall Rating: 85%
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