Emerald City Comic Con includes life-sized Hawken mech, playable game

Emerald City Comic Con attendees will have the chance to play Hawken and take photos with a life-sized mech, Adhesive Games announced.

Hawken is a free-to-play, online multiplayer first-person shooter where players customize and battle mechs on a dystopian planet. Convention attendees can purchase the game-based graphic novel, Hawken: Genesis, early; Genesis reveals the game's backstory. Participants over the age of 21 can also attend the Hawken Art Attack Show at Vermillion.

Hawken went into open beta on Dec. 12, 2012 for Windows PC. Comic Con participants can play it in booth 3005 or on the game's website.

Emerald City Comic Con ends today. The convention takes place at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle.