Any Warhawk players out there? I have been one since it launched for the PS3. Really a great on-line only game. It features a wide variety of weapons, vehicles and objectives. In the large rooms, players can enjoy some heart-pounding 16 on 16 action. It is visually a fine game, but the head to head action really makes it fantastic. If you buy it in Club, it comes with a nice bluetooth headset. You can also opt to download it sans headset and save a few bucks via the PSN store. Either way, it is the same game and provides hours of enjoyment.

Yesterday, the good folks at Incognito graced us with the expansion pack, Omega Dawn. It seems like the sales of this must have gone up faster than the thermometer on the Ron Paul Moneybombs on November 5th or December 16th. Once it downloaded, it seemed that everyone had it and was sending messages about it. So last night, I was up far too late (guess it is actually early after midnight) checking out the new stuff and wanted to share my thoughts with you.

Here is what you get in the $7.99 pack: A night mission, 5 new maps and a new vehicle. The night mission is a nice visual change to the game. The maps are very well thought out and provide the usual perfect symmetry and balance with which we have grown accustomed. In some maps, instead of flags, your rally point for capture looks like a reactor of some sorts. What you want to hear about is the vehicle. The new vehicle is pretty tough, but slow. It is called the Combat Dropship and it is a beast. It can carry a group of soldiers and a tank or a 4x4. In addition, it can take hits from the enemy, LOTS of them. I must have shot at it with the shoulder launched missiles forever and do not think it put a dent in it. Oh, by the way, it has some guns and missiles of its own. Swarming missiles and machineguns help it to own the sky and land. It is truely the boss of the map. Unlike a computer powered boss though, this baby is run by thinking, or in some cases not so thinking, people. You cannot predict its movements or actions. I had to take a turn at flying it and it rocks. Kinda like driving a Hummer H1 on the freeway, everyone knows you are there and wants out of the way. Sure, there were faster Warhawks on my team blowing by me and enemy Warhawks buzzing around like flies, but the Dropship kept on moving. There seemed like there was no stopping it. Like Gulliver and the Lilliputians, the cumulative effect eventually took its toll. Our dropship was no more, but only after we made it to the flag.

So, what do you think of expansion packs like these? Are they worth it? Are you willing to get more content for a fee or would it be better to provide the complete game at launch if it meant a few bucks more? I think that the only negative to this is that some folks that do not purchase it will be left behind the rest of the players. While it is a fun game without the expansion pack, you do not know what you are missing until you try it.