Halo Wars.

I want it I want it!

Isn't it by the development team of Age of Empires? Ought to be pretty darn good. I'm looking forward to it. I enjoy good strategy games.

Here is a Game Play Video of Halo Warsdespa1r_fact0r

It looks alright. I haven't played much of Halo, but it sorta loses it's "epic" feel.

Here is a Game Play Video of Halo Warsdespa1r_fact0r

It's not so bad... all the hype seems to be fainting alittle because of the end of Halo 3

I like the flood a lot, but not the ones that stick to the walls. Those were really annoying...

I hope there's a demo coming for Halo Wars.

maybe its gone a little quiet because of the announced closure of ensemble. that must be a real downer, having to finish a game knowing your job will be gone afterwards!

interested to see how this turns out, i have been a fan of ensemble games e.g. AOE3. i wish this was coming to PC though.

maybe its gone a little quiet because of the announced closure of ensemble. that must be a real downer, having to finish a game knowing your job will be gone afterwards!

interested to see how this turns out, i have been a fan of ensemble games e.g. AOE3. i wish this was coming to PC though.

matt120282

I personality think the name 'Halo' has created a brand in itself. Once Halo wars gets mentioned and reviewed.. the whole of gamespot would be hyped. It the same as saying Nike top in Trainers and footwear as to Halo top in gaming world.

Achievements have been unveiled.

Wanna know what my favorite is? This:

OMG BFF FTW

40

Complete entire Campaign in Co-op Mode

I burst out in laughter from the achievement title...

i still think the 'acheivements' thing is total bs.  In old systems they would actually give you some ingame reward or secret levels or something for completing ingame content.  Nowadays they just flash something on the screen that just acknowledges your actions and thats considered to be somehow better with less content.  I really do have to hand it to microsoft games, they really put in less work and everyone gets really happy about it.

I think ill be skipping this title, as i loathe the halo series in general and think its the worst video game series to ever have done as well as it has.  There is still NOTHING in ANY halo game that has not been done somewhere else better first, and the graphics have never impressed me.

 Personally i find the quality of halo players to be inferior to the normal fps genre players anyways (just in general, not to say anything about our lovely people here), so i dont think these players will have much lure to bring me to thier rts.

You guys should let me know how you like it tho.

Maybe, I do think the game is overhyped but I also like the multiplayer and story. I do think it does get a good mixture, maybe it is not original but the wide environments, open levels where you can progress at your pace, vehicle combat, characters, music levels, etc are all well combined.

Achievments are a bit bleh for me, I like to get them but I dont get loads. However, they do make games last longer for completionists and if done well can offer good value for money which is a good thing. I do like Call of Duty rank system where you unlock new wepons and perks as you play and makes me want to keep playing to unlock the top wepons and make myself a better player by giving it more time.

Achievements have been unveiled.

Wanna know what my favorite is? This:

OMG BFF FTW

40

Complete entire Campaign in Co-op Mode

 

I burst out in laughter from the achievement title...

Benny_is_here

Oh my God, Best Friends Forever, For the Win

It just needs OMG BFF 1337 FTW PWND! UberskillzGarfield360UK

Makes me wonder who creates these

I really like 'Ready for the Sequel' award.

[QUOTE="Garfield360UK"]It just needs OMG BFF 1337 FTW PWND! Uberskillzrikhan_z

Makes me wonder who creates these

I really like 'Ready for the Sequel' award.

Haha, I missed that one. Self-referential humor is fun.

i still think the 'acheivements' thing is total bs.

Crush_Project

I'm probably the biggest achievement fan here. You're totally right that it's just something that flashes on the screen and doesn't have much of a reward (besides the occasional gamerpicture), but for me it's a great push to do things I wouldn't  otherwise do. It just gives such a great sense of accomplishment for me, and the time I spend on a game usually ends when the achievements do.

I like Halo, but I do not adore it. I think it can be a lot of fun, and I am looking forward to Halo: Recon. The points you bring up are true, but I do not think they are that significant. If I recquired innovation in every game I wouldn't be playing a lot of games. I think you're just frustrated at the amount of press and sales this game has gotten without being something truly special and unique. I'm still baffled that this is the most played online game on a weekly basis, but with so many people playing it there must be something it's doing right.

I quite like it, there are some issues like clostraphobic maps and the base locations being next to each other but more land to  exlpore leaves it a bit of an odd mix. The controls felt nice though and seemed to work but I think it still suffers from the needs a mouse issue that most console RTS titles seem to suffer from. Graphics wise it looks good and the building seems simple enough.

I dont know if I will be getting this title.

i played the halo wars demo yesterday. sadly, it suffers from the same old issues all console RTS's do;

1. bad graphics - i know they have to do this because of memory constraints etc but having grown up with PC RTS, its hard to take. i recently got red alert 3 and the graphics on that really nice; vibrant and detailed.

2. controls - i will never accept that a mouse and keyboard isnt the way forward. after 5 minutes i was cursing the sensitivity of the reticule in halo wars. endwar's voice command was ok, but makes proceedings a bit simplified compared to say CoH

3.bad framerate - i really thought they would have sorted this, especially because of the poor graphics. but no, when you try and scroll accross the map, even with no mass of units, you get slowdown. i didnt get to the stage where there is a lot of units but i dread to think.

4. simple gameplay - you can tell this has been designed for people who dont play RTS. e.g the basic economy (for goodness sake all you have to do is build a supply point and you get free unlimited money without any further effort or planning)  and the tooltips which tell you, ronseal style (it does what it says on the tin) what each unit and building does to the letter.

all in all, i wont be buying this. i loved ensemble's previous games, but this is just not worth my time or money compared to titles on the pc i could be playing. 

hopefully this will convince people like creative assembly and stardock that strategy belongs on PC! dont get me wrong, i like my 360 - certain genres (sport, fighting, racing) just belong on a console.

Matt brings up valid points. It's a simpler RTS than most, and the framerate did hiccup some times. I think the problem is just that there's not enough buttons on a controller compared to a keyboard. I don't think it's the mouse that is the issue - at the most you just need some time getting used to it. On a PC you have all these hotkeys that lets you do advanced stuff in a matter of seconds, which isn't the case on the 360.

I won't be buying this, but that's simply for the fact that it's an RTS game. I am not interested in RTS games at all.

i played the halo wars demo yesterday. sadly, it suffers from the same old issues all console RTS's do;

1. bad graphics - i know they have to do this because of memory constraints etc but having grown up with PC RTS, its hard to take. i recently got red alert 3 and the graphics on that really nice; vibrant and detailed.

2. controls - i will never accept that a mouse and keyboard isnt the way forward. after 5 minutes i was cursing the sensitivity of the reticule in halo wars. endwar's voice command was ok, but makes proceedings a bit simplified compared to say CoH

3.bad framerate - i really thought they would have sorted this, especially because of the poor graphics. but no, when you try and scroll accross the map, even with no mass of units, you get slowdown. i didnt get to the stage where there is a lot of units but i dread to think.

4. simple gameplay - you can tell this has been designed for people who dont play RTS. e.g the basic economy (for goodness sake all you have to do is build a supply point and you get free unlimited money without any further effort or planning)  and the tooltips which tell you, ronseal style (it does what it says on the tin) what each unit and building does to the letter.

all in all, i wont be buying this. i loved ensemble's previous games, but this is just not worth my time or money compared to titles on the pc i could be playing. 

hopefully this will convince people like creative assembly and stardock that strategy belongs on PC! dont get me wrong, i like my 360 - certain genres (sport, fighting, racing) just belong on a console.

matt120282

I think that this is a great example of why RTS should not move to consoles. Ever. 

With all the hype, I thought Halo Wars would break new RTS grounds in console. When I first heard about console RTS games, I thought "damn, that's impossible". But then I saw some games getting good reviews, and thought maybe some people could actually like playing RTS games with a gamepad. But to me, it's an impossible idea and I will always prefer PC versions.

Now allow me to head off to read the review!

I think there was valid criticism in the review like how there is only one sides campaign playable and in multiplayer/skirmish there is 2 sides and they have very few units each. There are design issues like on the demo my base was literally next to the enemies and that made it a bit hard to get going when you are literally building next to the enemy at the start.

It looks nice and the story sounds interesting but I would not say this is the best RTS ever either.

the funny thing is, gameinformer game halo wars a 9, so really who know's?nealsdaman

Does it deserve 9? That is the question. 

Its down to opinon at the end of the day really, some will love it, some will find it average, some wont like it. This is how the reviews are, I dont think its an odd review score as say the IGN issue when Football Manager got 1.4 or something like that and compared it to Pro Evo and Fifa which are not even the same game type. However, that was sorted out, it depends how Gamespot and the reviewer wanted to approach the game and also all reviews are checked by other members of the site so it seems that maybe more than one person agrees on how this has been done.

Anyway, will anybody actually be getting Halo Wars tommorow?

Not me. The game's length does not justify its cost, especially when you consider the flaws of the multiplayer in addition.pai-may

Thats what a lot of people are saying.