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Juss wonderin if anyone besides me is thrilled that a halo rts is comin out for the 360. I’ve been waitin for a halo rts since Halo: Combat evolved came out. From what I hear it is a 360 exclusive and was not originally built for the PC. I’ve seen the trailers and the demo and the game looks amazing. The same ppl that made AOE are makin this game so yeah… but i also hear that there is no reasource gathering…
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.
yeah… I know there are 4 kinds of ground vehicles for the humans, I dunno bout ground troops and air… I know you can use warthogs to run over the covenant and I love the fact that I get to kill more elites… Something about playing Halo since it came out and just made me hate elites… maybe it is because of all the times they killed me… ne way… I know that there are scarabs in the game and the only way to take them out is with a Ship’s MAC round… Ya might have to read the books to understand that one lol. And if you know what I’m talkin about dont you think that’s a little over kill? Star Craft II is gonna be awesome I cant wait.
Hate to break it to you but the last console based RTS like this that I can remember flopped. Hard. Most console gamers just want to point and shoot, not worry with commanding an army.
Well, hopefully with the use of the Halo franchise and name and all, it will bring more console gamers to at least sample RTS. I’m just worried about control scheme and all that. But thanksfully it’s being made for console, instead of a PC ported to console.
Oh Malley said:
But thanksfully it’s being made for console, instead of a PC ported to console.That will help more than anything else. RTS games ported from PC to console ALWAYS flop. If they do a good job with the interface and mixing command/control/FPS aspects then I have no doubt the game will at least draw a moderate playerbase. The Halo theme will do more to attract players than anything else they could advertise on.
I imagine it would be more along the lines of N64 Battlezone. It was a great port but just didn’t flow like the PC version and certainly didn’t shape up to anything near a good N64 game.
Honestly if you check out the Demo here it looks pretty sweet. The controls look smooth and easy. Not to mention that the graphics look amazing and the fact that its very similar to the origional halo. Not the graphics but the vechicles and such.
Personally I really cant wait for the game to come out next year. Sometime in November I think is the projected launch date.tyr said:
Honestly if you check out the Demo here it looks pretty sweet. The controls look smooth and easy. Not to mention that the graphics look amazing and the fact that its very similar to the origional halo. Not the graphics but the vechicles and such. Personally I really cant wait for the game to come out next year. Sometime in November I think is the projected launch date.Graphics alone don’t make a good game.
I know I know. I’m just saying compared to AOE III it looks better. The controls dont really look hard at all. I think the release date is sometime next November but i could be wrong.
Even if it does flop, I’ll still own it. I think it looks awesome, and I LOVE RTS games. C&C3 seemed to work OK on the 360. I worry about objects in the game being too small, or the field of vision being too limited. That is what has has turned me off to RTS game play on consoles. That and controls being funky.
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