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Starhawk (2012 Video Game)
''Starhawk'' is a 2012 third-person shooter video game developed by LightBox Interactive and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. It is the spiritual successor to 2007's ''Warhawk (2007 video game), Warhawk''. Gameplay The most notable change from ''Warhawk'' is the addition of a single-player story mode, which was intended to be included in ''Warhawk'' but was eventually removed. The gameplay is similar to ''Warhawk''. A new system called "Build and Battle" allows players to build structures such as bunkers, defenses, and armories in the midst of battle, giving the game a real-time strategy (RTS) element while remaining a third-person shooter. The game includes flying Mecha, mechs called Hawks. A player respawns into a landing craft which they can steer with in a limited range to reach the battle field. Like ''Warhawk'', there are 32-player online battles (16 vs 16). ''Starhawk'' also has a co-operative mode similar in concept to the Horde Mode in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Monica Studio
Santa Monica Studio is an American video game developer of Sony Interactive Entertainment based in Los Angeles. It is best known for developing the ''God of War'' series. The studio was founded in 1999 by Allan Becker and was located in Santa Monica, California, until relocating to Playa Vista in 2014. History Santa Monica Studio was founded in 1999 by Allan Becker, a long-time Sony employee who wanted "to break out of the corporate Foster City group" of Sony Computer Entertainment. The studio was established in an office next to the developer Naughty Dog before moving into a brick building in the suburbs of Santa Monica, California. The building at Penn Station would be occupied for fifteen years. For its first game, the racing title '' Kinetica'', Santa Monica Studio decided to skip the PlayStation console and built the game for the console's then-upcoming successor, the PlayStation 2, instead. A game engine was developed "to give the layStation 2some legs" for ''Kinetic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
