[QUOTE="fastdownload117"] "Halo Wars" is the next big real-time strategy game from Ensemble Studios, creators of Age of Empires. Designed exclusively for the Xbox 360, "Halo Wars" allows you to take charge of the human UNSC armies and see the Halo universe from a totally new perspective. "Halo Wars" takes place before Halo 1 during the UNSC's first deadly encounters with the Covenant. Players will lead the crew of the UNSC's "Spirit of Fire" from initial skirmishes to an all out war against the evil Covenant. Warthogs are cool. Scorpions are cool. Controlling lots of Warthogs and Scorpions and sending them into battle is really, really cool.
We've been big fans of Halo for years at Ensemble Studios, and when we sat down to discuss our next project we thought Halo would be absolutely perfect as an RTS on the Xbox 360. Halo Wars is for the Xbox 360 exclusively.XBSHX
Can you believe this? Sometimes, I can't believe Mircrosoft. First Halo 2 on the Xbox, years later on the PC, and then only on Vista (understandable, even).
But an RTS on a console?
It looks like they are going to great lengths to make sure they can milk the franchise for all it is worth- even eliminate some of the parts of a RTS that make it just that: a RTS.
"Halo Wars" was created for the Xbox 360 from the ground up, which meant we didn't have to make compromises or shoe-horn in artifacts from a Windows PC game. We were able to take all the best aspects of RTS games, make them work perfectly on the Xbox 360, and exclude the rest.
Does anyone seriosuly think that it could possibly work out well at all?
who really cares, microsoft trying to milk halo by putting a decent dev team on a crappy game/idea... Ensemble should stick with the AOE games, maybe get the gameplay right this time and worry less about graphics.
Ensamble lost it when they made AoE3. They took all that was fun in AoE2 and stamped on it. I like Halo, it would make a good RTS, it is a pity that all this bullsh*tting and system wars gets in the way from making a good game. 
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