Halo Wars
The Covenant has declared war on humanity, and Harvest is the first battleground. Set 21 years before the events of Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo Wars is an exciting real-time strategy game set in the legendary…
Halo Wars is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Ensemble Studios, released 26 February 2009 on Xbox 360.
What Halo Wars is
Halo Wars is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Ensemble Studios and released in 2009. It was published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is available on Xbox 360 only. It runs on Havok Physics.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Halo Wars is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 video game console. It was released in Australia on February 26, 2009; in Europe on February 27; and in North America on March 3. The game is set in the science fiction universe of the Halo series in the year 2531, 21 years before the events of Halo: Combat Evolved. The player leads human soldiers aboard the warship Spirit of Fire in an effort to stop an ancient fleet of ships from falling into the hands of the genocidal alien Covenant.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Halo series
Halo Wars is the 15th of 55 entries we hold in the Halo series. It arrived a year after Halo 3: Heroic Map Pack. The next entry was Halo Wars: Limited Edition in 2009. Its critic score of 70 is 11 points below the series average of 81. The highest-rated entry is Halo 3 at 91.
How it was received
Halo Wars holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 3 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 72, across 149 votes.
What it launched against
Halo Wars launched on 26 February 2009, within three weeks of Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Resident Evil 5 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Resident Evil 5, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Halo Wars yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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