THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: VALIS on July 17, 2008, 01:55:03 AM

Title: Halo Wars :O
Post by: VALIS on July 17, 2008, 01:55:03 AM

I was always leery about this game, not sure how it would come out. After seeing these two vids, my gaming boner is raging full on. Oh my. Serves me right for not having blind faith in one of the best devs of the last 10 years.

Large foot soldier skirmish, crazy air strikes, and at the 1:00 mark, ZOMG!, watch a mobile base get flown in and constructed:
http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/19938

Special units taking over enemy vehicles, more wicked air strikes:
http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/19939

:bow :bow :bow Ensemble Studios :bow :bow :bow

Title: Re: Halo Wars :O
Post by: cool breeze on July 17, 2008, 02:00:43 AM

I will probably pick this up, but as someone who has access to a good PC and a plethora of good RTS games, I really don't know if one on the console using the Halo setting is that anything for me to get excited about.

Title: Re: Halo Wars :O
Post by: VALIS on July 17, 2008, 02:03:11 AM

RTS on the PC is my favorite genre... but good games are good games no matter where they are. Hard to be an RTS player and look at those videos and think this won't be a blast.

Title: Re: Halo Wars :O
Post by: Fragamemnon on July 17, 2008, 03:54:49 AM

There's an interesting set of design decisions that Ensemble has made with this game that really just *might* make the controls somewhat tolerable from what I was hearing from a somewhat I trust nearly implicitly on such matters.

Stuff like limited number of units and using on-screen and global unit selection as primary selection methods instead of usual box-painting is a definite step in the right direction.

Still far from sold on the game, but I'm certianly a bit more optmistic about it than I was a few months ago.

Title: Re: Halo Wars :O
Post by: Tieno on July 17, 2008, 06:25:00 AM

*downloading the vids*
Some screens
(http://www.halowars.com/images/screenshots/screenshots_1280_013.jpg)
(http://www.halowars.com/images/screenshots/screenshots_1280_014.jpg)
(http://www.halowars.com/images/screenshots/screenshots_1280_015.jpg)
(http://www.halowars.com/images/screenshots/screenshots_1280_016.jpg)
(http://www.halowars.com/images/screenshots/screenshots_1280_017.jpg)
(http://www.halowars.com/images/screenshots/screenshots_1280_018.jpg)
(http://www.halowars.com/images/screenshots/screenshots_1280_019.jpg)
(http://www.halowars.com/images/screenshots/screenshots_1280_020.jpg)
(http://www.halowars.com/images/screenshots/screenshots_1280_021.jpg)
(http://www.halowars.com/images/screenshots/screenshots_1280_024.jpg)

Title: Re: Halo Wars :O
Post by: Kestastrophe on July 17, 2008, 07:52:08 AM

It looks good, but........

Quote from: swaggaz on July 17, 2008, 02:00:43 AM

as someone who has access to a good PC and a plethora of good RTS games, I really don't know if one on the console using the Halo setting is that anything for me to get excited about.

Title: Re: Halo Wars :O
Post by: Tieno on July 17, 2008, 08:01:48 AM

Quote from: swaggaz on July 17, 2008, 02:00:43 AM

I will probably pick this up, but as someone who has access to a good PC and a plethora of good RTS games, I really don't know if one on the console using the Halo setting is that anything for me to get excited about.

Halo Wars isn't really targeted at the PC RTS crowd, they're trying to make an RTS for Halo fans and console gamers.