Abstract: This offshoot from Microsofts enormously popular shoot-em-up trilogy often feels conservative and familiar, but its a reflection of the skill of its developers in making a strategy game that seems perfectly at home on a console. This is an elegantl...
Superb selection of UNSC and Covenant forces, Easy to play once you grasp the controls, Engaging storyline and cutscenes, Good mission variety through campaign mode
Covenant not playable in campaign mode, Flood not playable at all, Small unit counts and map limit the scale of battles, Very few multiplayer options
Halo Wars is a fun strategy outing for fans of the universe, but it feels simplistic and short alongside other games in the genre. ...
Abstract: James Wright8.1Microsoft’s Halo series is easily one of the world’s most popular first person shooters that originally began on the XBox and finally concluded on the XBox 360 with not only a spectacular gaming experience but a storyline to match. Stra...
Abstract: Halo Wars is the latest game in the Halo universe. But, unlike its predecessors, it is not a first-person shooter. Instead, Microsoft and Ensemble went in a completely different direction and decided to bring a real-time strategy game to the Xbox 360. Whe...
Abstract: Halo Wars has to be one of the most hyped games of 2009, and many gamers already made up their minds that this was a must-buy following the demo on Xbox LIVE. We take a look now at the Halo RTS in its entirety to reevaluate and nitpick at all its stre...
Halo Wars as a whole offers a few trade-offs while bringing the RTS genre successfully to consoles. It’s streamlined and simplified, but it brings that in the right places and the end result is a great experience. It does feel like developers ran out o...
Abstract: While real-time strategy (RTS) games are traditionally made for PCs, what with their nuanced controls requiring multiple key strokes, mouse drags and point & clicks and all, to find one on a console is rare - and a good RTS console game is rarer still....
Abstract: This is yet another great addition to the Halo trilogy. Halo Wars takes the player 20 years before the original Halo: Combat Evolved, but in an entirely new game style. Halo Wars is not a first person shooter (FPS) like the previous installments. Inste...
Abstract: The Halo experience is projected from a new point of view. Most gamers will be delightfully refreshed as they go from first-person shooting to virtual commanding. All of the necessary and functional elements that make the Halo games of past stand out h...
