This game is amazing i have spent so much time playing it. It was a great way for Ensemble studios to say goodbye. Its beautiful and raises the bar for console RTS games.
It makes perfect sense. I was implying that you're an ignorant Xbox fanboy. See, it could be released for both consoles.. and PC. Not just an exclusive.
Love the game but hate the multiplayer now, they mostly use the same tactic just rush with heroes,or banshees what's the fun with that? At least it can be played with ai's
I just like the decent amount of balance and counters to each units, a lot of rts usually have that one superunit that cant be trumped but even in this game the strongest unit (scarab) can be taken down by strafing air units
I been waiting since November to be backwards compatible for the xbox one if only I knew it will take them 6 months I would had purchased another 360 to play it.
victormania2008 sadly I don't see how there can really be a sequel just because everything about the halo universe the UNSC, the covenant, the flood and the units they have are already in this game so there really isn't much room left for expansion unless they just remaster it for the current gen
I've had this game for years, never played it though. I will, but I guess I bought it on sight out of excitement and wasn't expecting strategy. My bad, but I will play it some day.
Love the game still play it just as much in 2015 as I did in 2010 and I'm even a playstation fan this game was one of the reasons my second console purchase was an xbox 360 although I feel like this game would have been even better if they added a campaign for the covenant a good idea would have been the same as the UNSC campaign but from their perspective and obviously with a different ending
In all possible ways I would say yes even if you're not an RTS fan and just a halo fan you will still love it as I said I'm a playstation fan but I still played almost every halo game and still adore this game but I would recommend buying the limited edition it's about the same price at least in my state and it comes with a bunch of extra stuff a graphic novel leader cards and a UNSC spirit of fire patch
This game was good, but it could have been so much better in my opinion. I believe they should of taken note of how Command and Conquer Red Alert 2 plays and built off of that. I love the base building mechanics in that game compared to the way it functions in Halo wars where you are forced to build on pre set locations. Another small thing that annoys me in Halo wars is that you are unable to select your color during multiplayer, a minor problem but it still bugs me. Overall a decent RTS game.
This was the first RTS game I've played, and yes I've bought it because it was a halo game. But overall it's a really fun and satisfying game. I love it
I remember playing Age of Empires II when I was seven years old. When I turned 10 Halo CE PC was what got me into FPS games. When Halo Wars came out I WAS IN HEAVEN! RTS games and FPS games are both great, I don't understand why a lot of people hated on this game :/
"....But the characters are sorta your standard card-board cutouts". Really? This game had better character development than "Halo: Reach" did. In fact story-wise, this game was a better prequel than "Reach" was.
I personally like this game because its so easy to get into and figure out and just play for hours. Trying to beat somebody online can be simple or incredibly challenging depending on who you vs. I have more fun with this game than the games its based off of.
@rickdarko Brutes are part of the Covenant, they don't have enough individual units to make up a faction. Though if you play as the Cheiftan, you get brute squads, brute choppers and brutes in your Grunt Squads instead of Elites. As for the Flood, they were cut along with the Covenant campaign when Ensemble realised they didn't have enough time to finish all of the game and would have to scrap some parts. I agree it's a shame.
I've nvr played an RTS b4 Halo Wars and fell in love with them! IT just is so much fun getting to control ur units and unleashing massive fire power on ur enemies!!!
@XxstoopidmonkayxX you can set it up so the colors are made to represent enemies and allies, instead of ori colors, for instance, in multiplayer each player has a color of their own, but when you switch the option, all enemies are red and allies blue
The halo story was in it's peak when halo combat evolved came out. After that, it went down, but still, these games are very good. I love halo, and, assuming you didnt read the books, it has a really good storyline.
Yes, Reach is before the events of Halo Wars. With what we have seen in the trailer for Halo Reach, i will guess thats its the start of the Coventant war.
@crystalhand70 Exactly, the reason people don't enjoy halo wars like the other halos is because it doesnt have first person. Halo was originally a rts, but one day someone in the office for the heck of it made it an fps, and the rest of the office seemed to like that more than the rts.
I agreed completley agree, the game needed more customization. They had some important events that would have been better shown in fps (like the discovery of the flood). I thought you should be able to place buildings where ever you want on the map, you should have been able to make walls. The combat is fun and intense, the graphics are top-notch and the new vehicles and units are fun to control. Despite the poor dialouge and the week story, this game was worth the money!
This is a fun CONSOLE RTS, not on par with a PC RTS what so ever, but it's a fun game to pick up and play for a console, versus the C&C series which is much more in detail but Halo Wars is a great little game and now it goes for like $20 brand new with the DLC at most retail stores so it's worth it for sure! I picked this up when it first came out and just re-picked it up today and still enjoy it! Esp. the online parts!
"Halo Wars" was a little too simplified and streamlined, but it was still a fun RTS game that has its moments. The missions are very kinetic and the cut-scenes flow well with the pacing of the game. This is a worthy swan song for Ensemble Studios, if you ask me.
In my opinion, great game. Limited by the resources available on a console and trying to reduce online play time, but a great RPS for both the Xbox 360 and Bungie. Although Age of Empires was much more in depth, (could place bases wherever, could place walls and turrets wherever, 4 different types of resources, no population limit) those games would continue for hours on end and would never survive online. With that in mind, Halo Wars is the best RTS game available for the Xbox 360.
flood would be very fun, but maybe they think it makes it too similar to Starcraft or something: Teron/UNSC, Protos/Covenant, Zerg/Flood. But it would be very fun to focus on possessing enemy units to defeat them
I got the greatest hits version of this game factory-sealed with a download voucher for all its DLC included for only 15 bucks, and it was well worth it. I would recommend this game to all 360 owners.
@bobx9000 The Spirit of Fire didn't make it back to human-controlled space before CE, or if it did, ONI hushed it up. Thereby the UNSC didn't know about the Flood until they discovered them on Installation 04.
This game was actually pretty fun but I wish they'd made it more like the Age series. As a big Ensemble fan since 1998, I was a little disappointed with the game play and I don't understand why they made a halo game for their fans rather than a historical game- Most Halo fans weren't the ones that needed thanking for their loyalty to the studio over the years.
This wwas the only RTS that i never got bored of, but theres not that much strategy usually the bigger army wins the battle so ur main goal is just to make the biggest bad-ass of each faction to destroy the enemy.
The only problem in this game is that the leaders are pretty strong. It also pisses me off when they have like 20 engineers in the back somewhere healing the leaders as they run away into the dark areas.
I love this game I play all the time its nice graphics and fun play with friends online. I also love those cut scenes they make me feel like I am in the game
I have this game, it has AWESOEM cinematics, a great campaign story, and a good multiplayer,I really like to play games like C&C on PC and this one was even better!
yes it is i think bungie came to a good idea about incressing the assault rifle but i think its a little over powered i really think they should have incressed the pistol power to slightly less than the halo combat evolved one
This has gotta be the first ever halo game that wasnt really anticipated. I like the game, it wouldve been the best RTS game if it came out like 2 years after halo 1 a.k.a in 2003.
This game is very good, not amazing but still very good, if you like halo and you are partial to a RTS then i recommend you get this game, the gameplay is sleek and smooth with very little confusion, the major fault i can put on it is that some of the levels are short and some of the textures seem a bit rushed but other than that i like this game
@TheTenorSaxlord I know right! Like 8/10 Halo Wars player's stratagy is to rush. Me and my one friend 2v2ed these guys online and we call it the "Battle of the Century" because no one rushed and it turned into this huge battle halfway that lasted more than 1 hour! And we were in 5th grade during this so dont judge the fact that we named it :P
I liked it. My only complaint was structure placement. Putting buildings in my enemies ways were very useful in any other RTS cough* cough* Starcraft. =P
i still play this game but there so many improvements they could do to this game they just need to listen to some of the fans and i think that blizzard should have the title to this game and get it
ensemble studios was what brought me into gaming, now when i try to play an rts game, im shot down by the hardware requirements, in my opinion, PC gaming is for middle class and above now.
This game was alright, but i found in Skirmish mode you could win on any difficulty by just spamming Vultures and getting your MAC to fire four rounds. This just needed more balance to be a decent RTS
im surprised that many people still playing it, most people dont like RTS games and halo wars was kinda of a hard rts game, imma buy it again tomorrow because im playing all the other halo games to get ready for halo 4 lol
@Jmuny89boi no its not, they tried something different and i think it works. it all depends on ur preferance of gameplay. and plus, this wasnt even made by bungie so of course its different
@Dionkeyundead In some areas the controls were much quicker (building units and structures.) but when it came to controlling groups (1, 2, 3.) it sucks. Maybe Kinect will fill the void for future Console Rts (call out group 1 for example.)
love this game.most people hating on this game is probably those who cant play or dont like strategy games. Its realy enjoying,i can eat and relax at the same time when playing this game
This game is amazing i have spent so much time playing it. It was a great way for Ensemble studios to say goodbye. Its beautiful and raises the bar for console RTS games.
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I love Halo Wars
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Would it be cool if there was a Covenant campaign?
Probably my only real complaint about this this game.
Or flood
Theres both on 2 well u play as the covenant against the flood
Or even a covenant dlc
@@totalinglist7502 flood dlc would be cool
I really hope a sequel is released for the Xbox One
Or it could just be for PS4..
That makes no sense at all
It makes perfect sense. I was implying that you're an ignorant Xbox fanboy. See, it could be released for both consoles.. and PC. Not just an exclusive.
I don't know if you've noticed. Halo is owned by Microsoft, they won't make a multi-platform game out of one of their most successful franchises.
Well you never know.. People can leave and make a new game.. I mean, look at Destiny. It will be 10 times better than Halo ever was.
Wasn't the first halo originally going to be an RTS?
Yes it was
Yes
Halo wars + star wars galactic battlegrounds
Wow, I just got the limited edition of halo wars at a retailer which came with everything for just $16!
what retailer?
Love the game but hate the multiplayer now, they mostly use the same tactic just rush with heroes,or banshees what's the fun with that? At least it can be played with ai's
thats the best way to play :D
That really is annoying and I always say that it ruins the whole experience of building up and the patience and strategy
It removes all strategy and boils down to see who can build up the fastest.
#zergrush
Very easy to counter rushers.
The graphics in the cutscenes in this game are AMAZING!
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Wow i cant wait to pre order this new halo game!
XD
wow ign was so much good in 2009 I am impressed now
its shit money maker
+Guess who Urright hopefully your English was better back then
I just like the decent amount of balance and counters to each units, a lot of rts usually have that one superunit that cant be trumped but even in this game the strongest unit (scarab) can be taken down by strafing air units
I been waiting since November to be backwards compatible for the xbox one if only I knew it will take them 6 months I would had purchased another 360 to play it.
The Seahawks should have ran the ball.
MrLaeddis1 Entirely wrong place bud
Facts
i'm still playing this game! i'm looking forward for halo wars 2 :D
Sadly, the creators of Halo Wars, Ensemble, Has disbanded. There may not be a sequel.
Barış The Turk 343 said its a possiblitie they may carry it on themselves :)
victormania2008 sadly I don't see how there can really be a sequel just because everything about the halo universe the UNSC, the covenant, the flood and the units they have are already in this game so there really isn't much room left for expansion unless they just remaster it for the current gen
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@@SirHalo6100oh how naive you have become now my halo friend
I've had this game for years, never played it though. I will, but I guess I bought it on sight out of excitement and wasn't expecting strategy. My bad, but I will play it some day.
Love the game still play it just as much in 2015 as I did in 2010 and I'm even a playstation fan this game was one of the reasons my second console purchase was an xbox 360 although I feel like this game would have been even better if they added a campaign for the covenant a good idea would have been the same as the UNSC campaign but from their perspective and obviously with a different ending
The only halo I haven't played is this one, it's $20. Is it worth it?
In all possible ways I would say yes even if you're not an RTS fan and just a halo fan you will still love it as I said I'm a playstation fan but I still played almost every halo game and still adore this game but I would recommend buying the limited edition it's about the same price at least in my state and it comes with a bunch of extra stuff a graphic novel leader cards and a UNSC spirit of fire patch
Yeah I bought it and finished the campaign, pretty solid, just wish there was more maps for skirmish
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This game was good, but it could have been so much better in my opinion. I believe they should of taken note of how Command and Conquer Red Alert 2 plays and built off of that. I love the base building mechanics in that game compared to the way it functions in Halo wars where you are forced to build on pre set locations. Another small thing that annoys me in Halo wars is that you are unable to select your color during multiplayer, a minor problem but it still bugs me. Overall a decent RTS game.
halo wars 2 was the best beta I ever played
There was a beta?
KOgames yeah it was sooo fun
I just recently got an Xbox 360 and I’m sold
I’m gonna buy this game
this is my favorite game of all time!!! its so damn fun
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This was the first RTS game I've played, and yes I've bought it because it was a halo game. But overall it's a really fun and satisfying game. I love it
Nice AoE reference. AoE is the best RTS without a doubt!
No, it's not. go play supreme commander.
No it's not. Go play Starcraft bw/ Starcraft 2 HotS
How about you accept the fact that people can have different opinions?
I endorse that statement
Play company of heroes
Only game soundtrack that makes me feel nostalgic
WHY HAVE THEY NOT MADE A HALO WARS 2 :'(
They just announced it. Coming Holiday 2016.
Yeah I know found out yesterday!!!!!! Switched to PC gaming now so I can play it
+Reece Goodman -_- why would it be on the pic it's not a iPhone app
+mike limes what? They have announced it would be on PC for windows 10 only.
+Reece Goodman Uh, no. Wars 2 will be for Xbox One and Windows 10.
I remember playing Age of Empires II when I was seven years old. When I turned 10 Halo CE PC was what got me into FPS games. When Halo Wars came out I WAS IN HEAVEN! RTS games and FPS games are both great, I don't understand why a lot of people hated on this game :/
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Ensemble, You created an amazing Halo game, and an amazing farewell. R.I.P.
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"....But the characters are sorta your standard card-board cutouts".
Really? This game had better character development than "Halo: Reach" did. In fact story-wise, this game was a better prequel than "Reach" was.
I personally like this game because its so easy to get into and figure out and just play for hours. Trying to beat somebody online can be simple or incredibly challenging depending on who you vs. I have more fun with this game than the games its based off of.
@rickdarko
Brutes are part of the Covenant, they don't have enough individual units to make up a faction. Though if you play as the Cheiftan, you get brute squads, brute choppers and brutes in your Grunt Squads instead of Elites.
As for the Flood, they were cut along with the Covenant campaign when Ensemble realised they didn't have enough time to finish all of the game and would have to scrap some parts. I agree it's a shame.
the campain was a little short, but the cut sceans were nothing short of unbeleavible
they were amazing!
I love this game and being a big RTS fan as well as a halo fan i think this is brilliantly well done and easy to use for rookie RTS players.
I've nvr played an RTS b4 Halo Wars and fell in love with them! IT just is so much fun getting to control ur units and unleashing massive fire power on ur enemies!!!
Can't wait for Halo Wars 2!
Sad I haven't played this yet, and sad I can't play as flood.
However, I am happy I will play it.
@XxstoopidmonkayxX you can set it up so the colors are made to represent enemies and allies, instead of ori colors, for instance, in multiplayer each player has a color of their own, but when you switch the option, all enemies are red and allies blue
The halo story was in it's peak when halo combat evolved came out. After that, it went down, but still, these games are very good. I love halo, and, assuming you didnt read the books, it has a really good storyline.
Yes, Reach is before the events of Halo Wars.
With what we have seen in the trailer for Halo Reach, i will guess thats its the start of the Coventant war.
@crystalhand70 Exactly, the reason people don't enjoy halo wars like the other halos is because it doesnt have first person. Halo was originally a rts, but one day someone in the office for the heck of it made it an fps, and the rest of the office seemed to like that more than the rts.
I bought mine for Halo 3, and found a ton of other good games for it too. Totally worth it.
Best console RTS. I still play it till this day.
I agreed completley agree, the game needed more customization. They had some important events that would have been better shown in fps (like the discovery of the flood). I thought you should be able to place buildings where ever you want on the map, you should have been able to make walls. The combat is fun and intense, the graphics are top-notch and the new vehicles and units are fun to control. Despite the poor dialouge and the week story, this game was worth the money!
This is a fun CONSOLE RTS, not on par with a PC RTS what so ever, but it's a fun game to pick up and play for a console, versus the C&C series which is much more in detail but Halo Wars is a great little game and now it goes for like $20 brand new with the DLC at most retail stores so it's worth it for sure!
I picked this up when it first came out and just re-picked it up today and still enjoy it!
Esp. the online parts!
I only find a few thousand people on Xbox now, it's a bit sad since there used to be 10,000+ people in the past.
theres a patch being worked on that will be downloadable on the marketplace that will allow you to conrol the flood.
"Halo Wars" was a little too simplified and streamlined, but it was still a fun RTS game that has its moments. The missions are very kinetic and the cut-scenes flow well with the pacing of the game. This is a worthy swan song for Ensemble Studios, if you ask me.
In my opinion, great game. Limited by the resources available on a console and trying to reduce online play time, but a great RPS for both the Xbox 360 and Bungie. Although Age of Empires was much more in depth, (could place bases wherever, could place walls and turrets wherever, 4 different types of resources, no population limit) those games would continue for hours on end and would never survive online. With that in mind, Halo Wars is the best RTS game available for the Xbox 360.
flood would be very fun, but maybe they think it makes it too similar to Starcraft or something: Teron/UNSC, Protos/Covenant, Zerg/Flood. But it would be very fun to focus on possessing enemy units to defeat them
I still play this today I love it
I got the greatest hits version of this game factory-sealed with a download voucher for all its DLC included for only 15 bucks, and it was well worth it. I would recommend this game to all 360 owners.
@bobx9000
The Spirit of Fire didn't make it back to human-controlled space before CE, or if it did, ONI hushed it up. Thereby the UNSC didn't know about the Flood until they discovered them on Installation 04.
I love Halo Wars at the end where *** ***** dies I almost cried especially when the captain closes his pod
no, well I don't know if Harvest was in Fall of Reach, but I read Contact Harvest and it takes place mostly on Harvest.
This game was actually pretty fun but I wish they'd made it more like the Age series. As a big Ensemble fan since 1998, I was a little disappointed with the game play and I don't understand why they made a halo game for their fans rather than a historical game- Most Halo fans weren't the ones that needed thanking for their loyalty to the studio over the years.
4:26 lmfao at the warthog at the bottom right of the screen
yea, in halo 1 all i ever used was the hand gun, it was fun getting head shots, and it was insta-kill on some enemys
@ludovert I get your point but i think the Protoss is more like the forerunner and the Xel naga is more like the Halo predecours.
This wwas the only RTS that i never got bored of, but theres not that much strategy usually the bigger army wins the battle so ur main goal is just to make the biggest bad-ass of each faction to destroy the enemy.
The only problem in this game is that the leaders are pretty strong. It also pisses me off when they have like 20 engineers in the back somewhere healing the leaders as they run away into the dark areas.
I love this game I play all the time its nice graphics and fun play with friends online. I also love those cut scenes they make me feel like I am in the game
LOL right after he says" you'll know its a halo game" a flying building comes and I think of a starcraft command center XD
I have this game, it has AWESOEM cinematics, a great campaign story, and a good multiplayer,I really like to play games like C&C on PC and this one was even better!
Ensemble sought out to make the best rts on console, I think they did
yes it is i think bungie came to a good idea about incressing the assault rifle but i think its a little over powered i really think they should have incressed the pistol power to slightly less than the halo combat evolved one
This game is fun. Especially when you're in a 3v3 match, then shit gets crazy!
This has gotta be the first ever halo game that wasnt really anticipated. I like the game, it wouldve been the best RTS game if it came out like 2 years after halo 1 a.k.a in 2003.
This game is very good, not amazing but still very good, if you like halo and you are partial to a RTS then i recommend you get this game, the gameplay is sleek and smooth with very little confusion, the major fault i can put on it is that some of the levels are short and some of the textures seem a bit rushed but other than that i like this game
@TheTenorSaxlord I know right! Like 8/10 Halo Wars player's stratagy is to rush. Me and my one friend 2v2ed these guys online and we call it the "Battle of the Century" because no one rushed and it turned into this huge battle halfway that lasted more than 1 hour! And we were in 5th grade during this so dont judge the fact that we named it :P
I liked it. My only complaint was structure placement. Putting buildings in my enemies ways were very useful in any other RTS cough* cough* Starcraft. =P
they have 2 be coming out with halo wars 2, they have an achievement called "Ready for the Sequel"
I still play this all the time, hope they make a sequel but I doubt it.
@MacarioVistro you made a good point. I guess it depends on what the user prefers.
halo wars 2 should be with the unsc fleet, like frigates, cruisers and destroyers as vehicles, and sabres and longswords as infantry
Halo wars forever I really hope that someone will decide to make a second one.
It seems like people hate this game simply because it's an RTS on a console which is apparently a sin.
i hadn even heard of Ensamble studios until Halo wars was anounced
Found the Classics edition with borg DLC packs for 17$ today. Well worth the price
Ehhh depends. It does at first but now it gets pretty simple.
i still play this game but there so many improvements they could do to this game they just need to listen to some of the fans and i think that blizzard should have the title to this game and get it
Who still has this and still plays it cos I do
ensemble studios was what brought me into gaming, now when i try to play an rts game, im shot down by the hardware requirements, in my opinion, PC gaming is for middle class and above now.
This is good for a console rts. If they would have made this on pc and were given more time this could have been amazing
As for the sequel, I heard some of the former Ensemble employees started a new company. So theres still hope for Halo Wars 2!
This game was alright, but i found in Skirmish mode you could win on any difficulty by just spamming Vultures and getting your MAC to fire four rounds. This just needed more balance to be a decent RTS
man the cutscenes are unbelievable
im surprised that many people still playing it, most people dont like RTS games and halo wars was kinda of a hard rts game, imma buy it again tomorrow because im playing all the other halo games to get ready for halo 4 lol
@Jmuny89boi no its not, they tried something different and i think it works. it all depends on ur preferance of gameplay. and plus, this wasnt even made by bungie so of course its different
For me is halo wars one of the best halo games
I still keep on coming back to this game.
Well technically, Infantry-Vehicle- Air Unit could be looked at as a sort of RPS thing.
honestly, they should have handed the rights to Ensemble studios instead of 343i. this game was awesome.
They need to make a second one not ensemble because they closed but 343 could because this was the #1 sold rts on consoles
Its like u have ur own army and its like nobody can stop u :D
Man, I love RTS games, but I just cannot play them on console. I would have LOVED to play this on PC.
@Dionkeyundead In some areas the controls were much quicker (building units and structures.) but when it came to controlling groups (1, 2, 3.) it sucks. Maybe Kinect will fill the void for future Console Rts (call out group 1 for example.)
@XxstoopidmonkayxX Its on Friend and Foe Colors, you can change that through the settings menu
love this game.most people hating on this game is probably those who cant play or dont like strategy games. Its realy enjoying,i can eat and relax at the same time when playing this game
Wait, WHAT? This is going to be the ONLY one? *sighs at his "Ready For The Sequel" achievement*
Please bring on PC, would pay full price for this game!
R.I.P. Ensemble Studios =(
Totally getting this game today! :)
Did you get the game?
@@yatoproductions163 yes I did.