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...
Abstract: Halo Wars marks not only the last Real Time Strategy title for venerable RTS vets Ensemble Studios, but their last title ever, and while it might not be the game fans were wishing they had went out on, it's still really solid, and probably the best att...
Abstract: Name: Halo WarsGenre: Real-Time StrategyPlatform: Xbox 360Back in 2001, Microsoft released Halo, the seminal first-person shooter that proved that the genre, previously dominated by the PC set, could play just as well on consoles. Obviously the plan w...
Abstract: The UNSC and Covenant forces are fairly different from each other, with the leaders only amplifying this fact; the UNSC leaders, for example, differ through economy perks (Cutter adds a level to your bases, while Anders halves research times and c...
