Halo Wars - Platinum Hit (Xbox 360) 4.2 5 18 32
HALO WARS IS AWESOME IF U LOVE HALO 1,2, AND 3 YOU WILL LOVE HALO WARS AND HALO WARS LIMITED EDITION I NEVER LIKED HALO UNTIL MY BROTHER STARTED PLAYING IT NOW IT IS A BLAST I THINK HALO WARS IS AWESOME BECAUSE IT TAKES PLACE 20 YEARS BEFORE HALO 1 IT HAS AWESOME GRAPHICS AND COVENANT FORCE HALO WARS LIMITED EDITION IS HARDER BUT I PERSONALY THINK BETTER THIS IS AN AWESOME PRODUCT AND WHOEVER PLAYS HALO PLAYS FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE ROCK ON HALO FREAKS!!!!! ;P 06/11/2009
The Game you Love to Hate This is one of those games that you'll play and play and play. The campain verson of the game is good, even after you beat the game you can play against AI's in a you VS. the Game type mode. I enjoy the X-Box live version of the game the best. It's not your typical Halo first person shooter game, but if you like comand an concure you will love Halo Wars. GREAT VALUE. If you love the old board games like Risk, Axis and Allies, or even Stratigo and you have never given games like this a try, DO IT, you won't be sorry. I wasn't 08/10/2009
Unfinished mediocrity The biggest disappointment about this game is its length. 15 years ago Blizzard came up with Warcraft. There were 2 campaigns - Humans and Orcs. 10 years ago - Starcraft, 3 campaigns. 5 years ago - Warcraft 3 with 4 campaigns. This year 2009 Microsoft released Halo Wars with whooping 1 (one) campaign of about a dozen missions!What's up with that?! You create unfinished, unpolished, tiny game, throw it at the wall and expect people to shell out $60 for it because it is related to legendary franchise?!I paid $25 at a company store, and still feel like I overpaid.Now to gory detailsPros:+ It's about Halo+ Awesome cinematics.+ Great graphics for 2009 standards. It is 2009, you expect great graphics of an RTS.+ Good controls. Work pretty well for a console. I was kinda missing ability to select all units of a given type, but it's OK.+ You don't need to hunt for resources that quickly deplete.(do you see anything above that says $60?)Cons:- super-short. You beat it in 6 hours on Normal. For $60, I want to waste a couple of weeks of my time in front of my XBox!- Lack of thought-through design you see in Blizzard games. Forget the BS about paper, rock, scissors, most of the units there remain unused. You only build a couple of most efficient unit types unless you want to drag the game forever.- You are only able to build structures in the waffle, provided by the base. Seems like implementation-driven design, MS found it easier to do so. Forget about surrounding your base with custom ring of fortifications.- There is no dynamics of the unit types you can build. You can build them all from early levels up, but, I reiterate, you simply don't care. 03/10/2009
Not the best that they could have come out with but passable. The gameplay is smooth and the controls are simple. Overall a very good game but it doesn't really come close to the amazing draw of the Halo series. If you enjoy rts titles give it a try but wait for the price drop. 07/07/2009
