Oh my! I was wondering if they had voice recognition on End War, why they didn't implement it on H.A.W.X. Always nice to see when devs and me are on the same plane of tought.

My hype for H.A.W.X., rising...

Shiryu

I hope it works better than in R6:V2, because...that was crap.

Candlejack

PHOTOSHOP LENS FLARE IN THAT IMAGE. 105mm Lens flare.

Legba33

I always read that as Tom Clancy's Tony Hawk.
I then get an image of some rapscallion avoiding police by grinding the wings of a Harrier Jet.

LocalHJay

didnt they have voice recognition in the first SOCOM game?,...and it was pants

metallicorphan

Oooh, groovy. I hope the wingman will be more capable than Garuda 2 was, or less whiny. I'll take that as well. But I can't wait to try out telling my wingman to form up. :)

Salen

@Candlejack: If you think that was bad play R6: Lockdown. If you told your squad to hold they would advance. If you told them to move or go somewhere they would hold. Of course that game had zero good qualities about it but that certainly didnt help it out any.

parad0x360

"he hopes he can capture the camaraderie and exhilaration exhibited in renowned Hollywood tale, Top Gun."

Shirtless Beach Volleyball mini-game confirmed?

Astrofox

@parad0x360: Heh, didn't even know that game featured it. For the better I guess :)

Candlejack

@Legba33: Um... So? Lens flares can be done LIVE too... On the PS1, in fact... See Final Fantasy 7, 8, and 9.

bobtheduck

Will someone ever create voice recognition that works well?

juliopalio

@juliopalio: I hope so. I still dream of the day when that happens.

ShaggE

@bobtheduck:

He's referring to the fact that a lens flare made in a photo editing suite is easily discerned from an in-game one if you work with image editing a lot.

SnakeCL

@bobtheduck:lol touche my friend.

zanzibarlegend

@gozirah:
Yeah, in flight Karaoke would certainly suit the "casual" audience that Ubisoft is gunning for lately. :)

JoseJX

They should include anger and fear in the voice recognition. And in flight karaoke.

gozirah

@gozirah: This comment seriously made me laugh out loud.

Gutzman

@bobtheduck: Lens flares aren't new, but I highly doubt they went and perfectly recreated a stock Adobe Photoshop lens flare in their game.

I posted this as a tip but kotaku is too busy sucking Ubi's dick for inviting them to their special press event to actually do some real games journalism that isn't whoring themselves out as free advertising. Can't fault them for being like everyone else but it's the sad truth that games journalism exists entirely to advertise upcoming games.

Here's a screenshot for proof- the red LF is Ubi's bullshot, and I've added two more in photoshop.

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Legba33

@Astrofox:

Playing with the boys?

That'd be great.

BLiTzMkIV

@Legba33:

Either way, its pretty evident the pic is either a bullshot or off a PC gaming rig from the distant future, LOL.

SnakeCL

@Owen: As long as there's not a Boomer-like pilot in your squad, all should be well.

@metallicorphan: Yeah, I thought it was good. Very ahead of its time imo.

kcorbo

I'm with some of the others on this. Ubisoft have failed at attempting functional voice commands more often than other developers have ATTEMPTED it. It's never worked adequately, and as they usually put intuitive manual selectors for the same commands into the game ANYWAY, I'll just stick to those. Yay!

wild homes

would it be hard create a program that can recognize your voice commands? we should be given the option to record our voices for each command so that it can be recognized easier by the game. just record small phrases like names of allies, attack and defend commands. nothing too complicated.

islandknight

Oh what fun I had shouting "For the love of God do not ATTAAAAAACK!" in SOCOM, looking at those helpless team mates of mine running into certain death.

McKack

What we need now is cross game multiplayer. Imagine having Endwar, this flying game, and GRAW3 all really work together as one environment.

Andy D.

Ace Combat >>>>> HAWX

And yes, i can see the future. :O

neojam

now Ace Combat 6 needs to add voices from idolM@ster to counter voice command from H.A.W.X....

icepick314

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD. I've been wanting to do this since the wing commander 1 days. Finally its freaking possible. Its a must buy now

Kounji

If voice recognition in H.A.W.X. doesnt work, then it is assured that END WAR is gonna suck big time!

Why use voice recognition when you have a keyboard anyway? Consoles made the whole gaming experience rectricted to 10 buttons and two analog sticks :(

KroKan

@juliopalio: The voice recognition in Odama is great. I've read reviews that complain about its accuracy but it works nearly perfectly for me.

NighTrekr

Not saying Ubi never does bullshots *coughHAZEcough* but Ace Combat 6 has proven that flight sims are pretty freaking easy to make look good... The buildings are just boxes with flat textures because that's all you'd see from the sky, and the ground is just a terrain with a flat texture as well...

Plus, if you buy photoshop, don't you have the rights to use their effects however you like? Couldn't it be the lens flares you're seeing are simply pictures of lens flares used as... I forgot the term, but basically it's making lensflares in real time using pictures... I've done it in Unreal Editor quite a lot... They may have used a pic of the default lens flare and applied it to the brightest points on the screen.

Flight games where you stay high in the air are going to look realistic (in still images) from here on... PS3, 360... Hell, it's probably even possible on the Wii, if you put enough effort into it...

bobtheduck

bob I don't care about the rest of the shot, but they're overlaying PS lensflares and that's retarded. The best part is the actual flare is out of frame, which just goes to further prove that it's A BULLSHOT.

For fucks sake, Occam's Razor, man. If the best explanation is "they edited it in PS" and the only explanation you can come up with is "maybe they copied Photoshop Exactly"...christ.

You freakin' Ubi Bullshot Apologist - people like you are the reason companies can get away with this shit.

Legba33