Tom Clancy's HAWX demo available today on Live and PSN

Well after completing the available missions on the demo, I can clearly say that I'm pretty disappointed and will most likely cancel my pre-order.

The deal breaker has to be that retarded Auto Assist crap that you have to switch off to pull off high speed maneuvers. I have no idea why the game opted to chose that camera while having auto assist off. It not only makes controlling the aircraft far harder than what it has to be when in the mode but most importantly, you fly ******* blind for most of the time, in that it's hard to find your locked enemy on screen! You don't even use the radar or the rotatable camera for assistance which is something I use to perfection on Ace Combat. To make matters worst, you really struggle to take out enemies or evade missiles without going in this mode. It really destroys the gameplay in my books It would be great if the camera remained the same unless you manually change it when on auto assist off. I really don't see why it's necessary to switch camera when you can clearly use the brake drift or High G turns while on the normal camera, that way you still have the rader and the right joystick to move the camera to see your enemies.

Other than that a lot of things have been implemented pretty well. I really do love the inclusion of flares which would come in very handy against ground enemies firing heaps of SAM's. The other thing that I thought was alright was E.R.S. But I felt that it added too much assistance in the game. There should only be minimal or no reliance on that sort of assistance as it should be up to you to find what the best way to avoid missiles, lock on to enemies and destroy ground targets surrounded by buildings. Still a nifty feature though. Graphically the game looks awesome especially Rio itself.

It's a good Arial combat game but that **** camera in the no assist mode really does kill it for me. I'll stick to Ace Combat for my top gun fix until something better comes out.