Thursday, January 3, 2008

Halo Wars

Halo Wars Video GameHalo Wars will take place prior to the events of Halo: Combat Evolved. The game is set in 2531, in the UNSC's first battles with the Covenant around the planet Harvest, allowing the player to manipulate the crew and vehicles of a UNSC ship, CFV-88 Spirit of Fire, and partake instructions and commands from its AI Serena. An update posted on January 30, 2007 stated that the game would be using Motion capture. Screens on the website show this being used. However, after questioning, one of the moderators claimed that whether or not it will be used and how are still unknown.

A small demo of Halo Wars was revealed to gaming media at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) on July 10, 2007 and a demo walkthrough video narrated by Halo Wars' Lead Designer was released on Xbox Live Marketplace on August 27, 2007.

When asked whether it would be possible to play as The Covenant, the game maker's answer was an ambiguous "stay tuned". However, sections of the game's official website suggest that it will be possible to play as the Covenant.

Halo Wars is an upcoming real-time strategy video game that will take place in the fictional Halo universe. The game is being designed by Ensemble Studios and set for release exclusively for the Xbox 360. Announced during Microsoft's X06 media briefing on September 27, 2006, details of the game first appeared on 1UP.com.A pre-rendered trailer for the game was shown at X06.


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Genre: Real - Time Strategy

Release Date: To be arrange

Publisher: Bungie Studios, Ensemble Studios

Developer: Microsoft Game Studios

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

All I thought that this game is somewhat like a combined game of Halo. So this one is a strategy game which is like Empire Earth. Looking forward to see some updates regarding this game...

Anonymous said...

a real war between soldiers and aliens must have been a good concept to use as a theme for this game...

Anonymous said...

this game seems good but is it first person or birds eye veiw?