Halo Wars :
Overall Rating : 7.7
Campaign Rating : 6.0
Multiplayer Rating : 8.5
Halo Wars is Real-time strategy based upon the halo Universe.
Halo Wars offers another insight into the Halo universe and shows us a bit of the background story of Harvest , The flood and the forerunner's.
The events take place in 2531, 20 years before the event of Halo : Combat Evolved.
"The UNSC ship "Spirit of Fire" is sent to investigate and stop what the enemy is up to. What the crew finds could be that stands between humanity and certain annihilation by the Covenant." Quote from game case.
Halo Wars has a good campaign with a decent story which starts off with breaking a Covenant strike force attacking a base and leads up to fleeing an exploding sheild world. Theres a lot of epic stuff along the way too, however some of the skulls and missions could have been better :
E.g Cowbell : When put with boomstick units explode freuqenlty on the higher difficulties, (however you don't need any skulls on, its an extra)
Halo Wars after its release in February 26, 2009 still offers a good multiplayer experience, though it has low population now, and all of the DLC playlists usually have too few players to search for a game.
Though you still find in a game in the majority of the playlists quickly.
The game launches with Skirmish and Deathmatch modes, though DLC introduce a few new maps and 3 new gametypes :
Reinforcement.
Capture the flag.
Tug of war.
These also add new acheivements.
For people who like Real-time strategy games and Halo's story, Halo Wars is a must.
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