I have been a huge Ensemble Studios fan back when Ensemble wasn’t owned by Microsoft and when they first put out Age of Empires, etc. I’ve been a large participant in the Age of Empires community and have moderated a few Age of Empires fansites on Gamespy as well as Planet (now under the same company of course) and luckily gotten to know quite a few of the Developers and Testers who work at Ensemble. They even are the ones that hooked me into WoW and got me playing with them in their guild, etc. Either way from what I’ve heard and seen (though not much has been even shown or told to me yet) Halo Wars looks pretty freaking sweet. It’ll be an extremely interesting twist to see what they do for a RTS on the console though, as it is quite a tough challenge to handle. When asked about controls though, a few of my friends have said that the controls are phenomenal. As I said though, due to their NDA they can’t disclose much info with me and instead turn to bragging about their Starcraft II alpha that they’re in T_T.
