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Amongst the torrent of real-time strategy games that have surged through recently (Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, Tom Clancy's EndWar, World in Conflict: Soviet Assault), Halo Wars seems like the most straight-forward and traditional of the lot. In this case that's in no way a bad thing, considering that its developers - Ensemble Studios - have re-engineered a franchise to accommodate an entirely different genre. The transition from first person shooter to real-time strategy happens rather smoothly as Halo Wars captures the Halo universe and all the alien-on-marine action you've craved, while keeping things as true to the series as humanly (or even Forerunnerly) possible. The game takes place roughly 20 years before the events of the franchise's first game - Halo: Combat Evolved, in the year 2531. The game starts off with a conflict between the United Nations Space Command and the Covenant (for those of you who are slacking off - the Covenant's a military alliance of alien races with misled religious zeal) on a colonized human world - Harvest - that's seen almost six years of bitter conflict between both sides. It's your job in the game, to help the UNSC discover why the hell the aliens are interested in this unassuming world. The game starts off with an easy-to-understand and short tutorial that shows you the ropes where controls are concerned; which brings us to the most relevant question concerning console RTS games - do the controls suck? Simply put - no. The controls are simple and intuitively designed; the A button handles all your unit selection needs - hover over a unit using your fixed reticule and tap A to select it, or double tap to select all units of the same time on the screen. Alternately, you can press and hold the A button to drag-select units. To help select all units across the screen, you can tap the left bumper button. Alternately, the right shoulder button lets you select units across the map. A word of warning: pressing either one of these buttons plays an unenthused voice recording that says either "All units" or "Local units". Keep spamming the keys and you're sure to drive yourself and those around you insane! |
Tags: Halo , Halo Wars , Ensemble
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