Ubisoft Ships Tom Clancy’s HAWX for PS3 and Xbox 360

Today Ubisoft announced that Tom Clancy’s HAWX for the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 has released and will be hitting retail shelves this week. “Tom Clancy’s HAWX marks a new era for the flight combat genre and a new playground in the Tom Clancy universe,” said Tony Key, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Ubisoft.

The setting for Tom Clancy’s HAWX is 2012. As the era of the nation-state draws quickly to a close, the rules of warfare evolve even more rapidly. More and more nations become increasingly dependent on Private Military Firms (PMFs) – elite mercenaries with a lax view of the law. The Reykjavik Accords further legitimize their existence by authorizing their right to serve in every aspect of military operations. There goes the neighborhood…