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...
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...
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...
