It struggled to find an audience, and was later rebranded to The Cycle: Frontier before dying a sudden and unceremonious death a short time later. The last time a game went in for the Fortnite aesthetic mixed with extraction gameplay, we got The Cycle. It’s a mysterious island filled with ancient treasures, deadly traps and fierce lizard men, and has attracted the attention of GRAIL, an organisation of mercenary treasure-hunters determined to liberate said artefacts for the sake of historical preservation. Hawked takes place on X-Isle, a fairly unimaginatively-named playspace, but one with scope to shift and change with future content drops and updates. Despite – or maybe because of – the obvious influences, I came away feeling pretty pleased with what I saw and anxious to play more. I recently spent some time playing Hawked during an online presentation to show off the new game and let us get to grips with how it feels. But in a world with surprisingly few developers willing to risk going head to head with Fortnite, Hawked does so with confidence and a lot of interesting – if not wholly original – ideas.
From the aesthetics to the tone, from the sound design to the environments – even how weapons are dropped from crates and chests and quietly spin on the ground until someone picks them up. Epic’s battle royale phenomenon is a clear inspiration for UPWAKE.ME’s PvPvE Extraction game. On the surface of it, you might be forgiven for mixing Hawked with Fortnite.
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