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Post by FrkUout on Mar 5, 2009 17:41:11 GMT -8
I have to admit, it's a pretty good game. I'm on mission 5 of the campaign, playing at the heroic difficulty. Probably not the best thing to do the first time out since you want to spend tiem to explore the maps and find all the hidden goodies. I've missed 2 black boxes so far but I did get the grunt b-day party skull in the second mission.
The civilian rescue mission (#4) is very frustrating. You have to learn to not venture too far to the east as the covenant will make you pay for it. I tried to rescue Adam too soon as well and I guess he died since I didn't get the achievement. All in all though the game is solid. As Monkey King said, it gives you the feel of Halo when the Spartans were in their prime. Watching a Spartan with a laser sniper the covenant never gets old.
Overall I'd say two thumbs up for now. I have yet to play multiplayer or co-op but I'm sure I will.
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Post by Roggie on Mar 5, 2009 19:37:24 GMT -8
Halo Wars is exclusively on xbox 360. Halo:Combat Evolved was exclusievly on the Xbox, and then it went to PC, we will probably see it sooner or later. I highly doubt Halo Wars will hit the PC. It's controls would be worthless on a PC. |
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Post by Metalix ShadowX on Mar 5, 2009 21:10:08 GMT -8
Halo:Combat Evolved was exclusievly on the Xbox, and then it went to PC, we will probably see it sooner or later. I highly doubt Halo Wars will hit the PC. It's controls would be worthless on a PC. wat. Halo CE had its controls changed, why can't halo wars? and you can plug in a controller for Halo CE. Why wouldn't a PC version of Halo Wars have a Controller option too? |
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Post by calico on Mar 5, 2009 21:20:48 GMT -8
we should all just get it and play it on the 360, so we can have a common game again
that or find the love in halo 3
or both
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Post by Metalix ShadowX on Mar 5, 2009 21:26:14 GMT -8
I vote the both.
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Post by TequilaDo on Mar 5, 2009 23:37:53 GMT -8
I highly doubt Halo Wars will hit the PC. It's controls would be worthless on a PC. wat. Halo CE had its controls changed, why can't halo wars? and you can plug in a controller for Halo CE. Why wouldn't a PC version of Halo Wars have a Controller option too? hahah exactly what I was thinking. It's not like they'd keep the game identical. of course they'd customize it to work on a PC |
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Post by FrkUout on Mar 6, 2009 9:20:30 GMT -8
I'll give two reasons it probably will never see a PC. First, Ensemble Studios is gone. Even though Robot Entertainment has picked up the title for updates and possible additions, I highly doubt they'll take on rewriting the code to run on a PC. Second, when Halo Wars was announced way back when it was stated that it's an XBox 360 exclusive. Meaning that Ensemble was paid very well to create and code the game only for the XBox 360.
I'm not against a PC version but I just don't think it'll ever happen guys.
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Post by Roggie on Mar 6, 2009 11:51:13 GMT -8
The game was DESIGNED for 360. Every other 360 RTS was a PC port. Halo Wars as an RTS would be absolute shit on PC and nobody would play it. PC RTS's are for microing. There's no microing at all in this game.
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Post by monkeyking79 on Mar 6, 2009 12:53:01 GMT -8
I agree with Roggie. I was looking around on you tube the other day to find HW related stuff and all I found was a bunch on PC snobs flaming the game. As for me, I like not having to micro every little thing. HW still has enough to do to keep you happy though. As for FrK I was going to see if you might want to do a little 1 v 1 v1 with Joe and I over the weekend. Maybe if we felt froggy enough we might try 3 v 3 on live.
P.S. zangief, Steel avalanche and monkey King79 are both up for some Game Battles scrimmies.
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Post by Roggie on Mar 6, 2009 12:59:16 GMT -8
I do kind of enjoy the no microing, but I wish there was some to it. Not the extremes there are in another one, but I do miss seeing peons or wisps running back and forth to a gold mine.
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Post by Zangief on Mar 6, 2009 14:24:45 GMT -8
Lets shoot for starting up in game battles in a couple weeks. I will make and announcement to everyone when the time comes.
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Post by FrkUout on Mar 6, 2009 15:54:05 GMT -8
I do dislike the population cap though. I'll be right in the thick of things a try to build another unit and I get population limit reached. I understand why they did it and yes I know you can increase it through research but it's still annoying.
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Post by TequilaDo on Mar 6, 2009 17:48:05 GMT -8
I do dislike the population cap though. I'll be right in the thick of things a try to build another unit and I get population limit reached. I understand why they did it and yes I know you can increase it through research but it's still annoying. Don't most, if not all RTSs have a population cap? |
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Post by FrkUout on Mar 6, 2009 21:03:05 GMT -8
yes but much higher than 40 and that's not 40 total units as some units cost several population points.
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Post by TequilaDo on Mar 7, 2009 1:17:08 GMT -8
yes but much higher than 40 and that's not 40 total units as some units cost several population points. 40 is the cap??  |
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