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GF Rating
7.0

18165 ratings

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GF Rating
9

Excellent

Epic New War Saga Has Begun!

posted by marshall84 (ASHEVILLE, NC) Mar 9, 2009

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Member since Apr 2008

22 out of 33 gamers (67%) found this review helpful



This is Halo & a new war has begun. Hence none other than the great Halo Wars has come! I will begin.

Controls- Easy to grasp, I definitely recommend going to the Settings in the Main Menu to learn how to control your moves every step of the way. Listen to the tutorials, they are there to help you & gain all the benefits to demolishing and obliterating every fiend & foe that comes your way! Be patience within the game, some & I stress some of the handling of vehicles can be tedious. Keep your palms cool & collective, the payoff is on a large scale.

Concept- simple RTS that has added to the amazingly successful Halo category & genre of RTS. The story is solid. Short, simple & sweet.

Graphics- on a 1 to 10 scale, I give it a 9.5 in my book. The characters are easy to see, the Warthog is fairly large on my 37 inch LCD HDTV 1080p, but it’s full resolution too. I wouldn’t recommend playing this on a small screen. Nothing smaller than a 17 inch. Why I say this? One of my dear friends has a smaller TV & he came over to play his saved games over here, because he had to squint at his TV. Just a courtesy note for you all.

Length- on a 10 scale, I give it 8.5 out of 10. It’s not ridiculously long campaign wise, BUT the multiplayer is out of this world, may I say, next to FLAWLESS. I have YET to lag in any battle, 2 on 2 match or larger if you prefer.

Replayability: I give it 9.5 out of 10. There are some very simple drawbacks, this does come awfully close! I hope my review was helpful to you. Feel free to leave feedback on my LIVE Gamertag SUPERMARSH1984. HALO WARS ROCKS GAMERS!!! Thank You.

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GF Rating
10

Perfect

Had a blast

posted by SeifertC (MORRISTOWN, NJ) Jan 26, 2010

Member since Jan 2010

5 out of 7 gamers (71%) found this review helpful

As a huge fan of the Halo series, and a long-time RTS player, Halo Wars was a great experience for me. Decent RTS controls on the console, interesting story, and really, really cool building animations. Definitely a must play for fans of the Halo universe!

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GF Rating
10

Perfect

Halo Wars

posted by Naraxis (MEDFORD, WI) Dec 29, 2009

Member since Sep 2007

5 out of 7 gamers (71%) found this review helpful

im sick to the teeth of hearing people say this game sucks because "it isnt an FPS and therefore it sucks" this game isnt an FPS true but thats the way bungie made it, it was meant to be a RTS game and it delivers, most RTS console games fail horribly and arent easy to controll or use at all, not halo wars. one person who rated it a 1 said he "expected an FPS and got some lame WARCRAFT rip off" first if u would have read any reviews at all before the game came out you would know it wasnt an FPS, second, its nothing like warcraft. all in all this game is the bomb dont listen to people who dont like RTS games, as their reviews would be biased, instead listen to the people who actually like RTS games they will tell you the truth.

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