Abstract: A solid RTS on the Xbox 360, Halo Wars may not break the mold, but it does provide an impressive entry to the series and one that finally makes the genre feel at home on a console.
Abstract: If you told me 10 years ago that the guys who made the awesome Age of Empires II would be making a console-only real-time-strategy game based on a sci-fi shooter, I probably would have at least bitten, if not consumed, my hat at the time. Yet, not only...
Abstract: Halo, for all intents and purposes is Microsoft’s Star Wars: a sprawling sci-fi yarn with a deeply convoluted history spanning hundreds of years. Now that history is being expanded even further in Halo Wars, the franchise’s brave entry into the con...
Abstract: Its twenty years before the events of Halo: Combat Evolved, and human forces have just won a fierce battle with the Covenant on the surface of the planet Harvest, an out-of-the-way world in the Epsilon Indi system. The Covenant have their beady little...
Halo Wars isn't Halo. With Halo, Bungie looked at other console FPS games and came up with something completely fresh and, in hindsight, utterly brilliant. Halo Wars is fundamentally no different to any other console RTS, but unlike its peers it works in ...
Its quite a change from the Halo we all know and love but Ensemble (RIP) has done a great job. The RTS action is fun, the controls are surprisingly tight and the presentation is great. It wont thrill every Halo fan but Halo Wars definitely lives up ...
Abstract: The video-games industry is so vast and varied that the satisfaction you get from a real-time strategy (RTS) game and the fix you get from a blood-and-gore shoot em up are obviously very different things.In most games I play, I look for some vestige o...
Abstract: Halo Wars is released today and the question is: does it represent an easy transformation of a legendary shooter game into a real-time strategy game for the console?The video-games industry is so vast and varied that the satisfaction you get from a rea...
