Note: I'm going to assume that the name of the game's going to be changed prior to its release. For now, we're going to stick with calling the game by its developmental (and announced) name. Halo Wars is a brand-new real-time strategy video game from Ensemble Studios. Working in conjunction with Bungie Studios, the creators of the Halo video game series, Ensemble is bringing, exclusively to the Xbox 360, a new perspective to the Halo video game series. Ensemble Studios, the creators of the Age of Empires video game series, are allowing players to take control of the human-controlled UNSC armies. Players will lead the crew of the UNSC's "Spirit of Fire" from initial skirmishes to an all-out war against the Covenant. The entire storyline will take place before the events of Halo: Combat Evolved—before the Master Chief was even thought of. OFFICIAL BUNGIE PRESS RELEASE: Right-click and "Save target as..." to download the trailer. (Yes, the trailer is pre-rendered. I'm not sure why they did this.) Official Web site: www.halowars.com Release date: Pending Platform: Exclusively on Xbox 360 Producers: Ensemble Studios, Bungie Studios Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios Rating: Pending I can't fucking wait! As if Halo 3 wasn't enough for me to buy an Xbox 360, now I've got this game to play! It's going to be incredible and I absolutely can't wait. I'm surprised I didn't hear about this sooner. (I'm more surprised it hasn't been posted here yet.) I can't wait. I'm floored. Bungie's so tricky. They debunked the rumor about a Halo RTS only to announce a Halo RTS later down the road. It's going to be so great. On top of this, there's yet another game being developed (by Peter Jackon's new gaming studio). But we'll wait to make that thread until we've actually got a working title. Discuss.
It's not a tentative name from what I understand -- it's final. Microsoft has had that domain name secured for a while now (and not just because it has Halo in the title). They may add a subtitle, though. Anyways, I'm looking forward to it. Ensemble makes some amazing RTS games. I'm not a fan of Halo (I'm not going to go into it so as not to start a flame war -- just didn't like it), but I do like the idea.
Not sure how this is going to work with a game like Halo but I'm cautiously optimistic, I bet it will be very cool.
Can't say I'm very interested in RTSs, but I'll check it out. The trailer looks sweet. The good thing is that this in no way delays production of Halo 3, which is easily my most highly-anticipated game of all-time. I'm not even talking about it from a campaign standpoint, I'm interested to see how they've improved the already mighty online multiplayer gameplay. *drool*
yeah i watch the trailer last night and was awed all the way through, i think this will be an awesome game IF it is realesed for the PC, because the idea of an RTS on the console suckzorz cause you need the mouse, although i do have AoE for the PS2, but still i hope this will be for the pc cause i would deffinatly buy it.
They're building it from the ground up, so all the controls are going to be easy to understand, as opposed to just being ported from the PC to the Xbox 360, where the controls would be fucked. They're actually going to make it so it's easy to play and you won't be clamoring for a mouse.
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I'm not sure. I know they're building it for Vista, but they're probably going to make it backward-compatible with XP. It'd be really stupid if they didn't.
w00t! and yeah if they didn't make it compatable for XP then they would loose out on a bunndle load of cash.