Comments on: Halo Goes to War

By: Guy

Guy — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:22:47 +0000

Ben,

Good review! I love RTS’s. I love Halo. From my extensive time with the demo I have to say… this is about the weakest RTS I’ve ever played. It’s missing so many basic options and depth.

That said, it has a great Halo feel to it. Ensemble did a wonderful job of preserving the franchise and I too look forward to the finished product next month.

-Guywiired

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By: Micah

Micah — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:24:55 +0000

There is a click and drag feature in the game. It is the A button, when moving the cursor around anywhere on the screen you can hold A down and just like the left click button on a mouse it will highlight an area which you can then drag wherever you would like on the map just like you can with a mouse.

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By: Dust and Echoes

Dust and Echoes — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:22:46 +0000

I, like you, have scarcely played RTSs, usually only borrowing them to mess around in skirmish. I find this very interesting, and agree with a lot of your points. As already pointed out, holding A does a click and drag function. I do not have much advice to offer, so I suppose this concludes my insightful comment

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By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:28:39 +0000

Just wanted to point out that you can set up global rally points in the Halo Wars demo, which allows your “newly constructed units [to] join the fray automatically, rather than loitering outside of the barracks.”

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By: JadedTarget

JadedTarget — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:59:28 +0000

The camera is controlled with the Right Analog Stick. You can rotate and zoom in or out. Clicking it will reset the camera to the default view and direction that you selected in the options.

With units selected, you can use the right trigger to select your Warthogs, have them attack infantry, and then press B button once so that you go back to your whole selection. It took a lot of getting used to but the streamlined controls (and lack of groups but addition of D-Pad movement) is actually very well done.

Waypoints are an integral part of games, even if simplistic. Holding the X button instead of simply pressing it will give a command after the current one is completed.

Hope that helps, I like RTS games too so I’m familiar with Starcraft and other games of the like. I believe that Halo Wars is the only RTS that will be easily playable on a console because of the control scheme and simplicity between the base construction, resource management, and unit control. Ensemble did a very good job here and as a Halo fanboy, along with FPS as my preferred genre, Halo Wars is simply awesome.

Very good review, though. RTS gamers might not appreciate it as much as a Halo fan but it does have good elements and is easy to pick up for the average shooter player.

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