halowars gameplay footage

sneakyn8 · Post by **sneakyn8** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:02 am

holy crap this looks fun

phoenix · Post by **phoenix** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:06 am

Very nice , and if it is released for PC it would be AWESOME!

fishface617 · Post by **fishface617** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:20 am

I'd prefer to play it on PC but it still looks pretty awesome
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V0Lt4Ge · Post by **V0Lt4Ge** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:01 am

Oh, my goodness, that MAC gun bombardment was f-ing awesome. =O

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:24 am

It looks fun and all, but I think making it 360 only was a bad business move. I mean, it's cool that they're trying to show that RTS games can work on a console...but it would be so much better on the PC.

Hawaiian Modder · Post by **Hawaiian Modder** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:43 pm

I think it looks amazing. Everything looks real and more importantly, Halo.
I think that it might be the first and only RTS I'm gonna play.

I just want to know how they got those scorpians over that gap.

Sgt.Peppers · Post by **Sgt.Peppers** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:54 pm

GametagAeonFlux wrote:It looks fun and all, but I think making it 360 only was a bad business move. I mean, it's cool that they're trying to show that RTS games can work on a console...but it would be so much better on the PC.

I totally agree, I wouldn't want to play an RTS on a console, although I'm sure they've made it really easy to use, I'd much, much rather play it on PC.

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:11 pm

Yeah, i've never been a fan of FPS's on a console, but i'd much rather play an FPS on a console than an RTS. PC is simply the best platform to play RTS's on, sort of without any uncertainty.

Pyroman · Post by **Pyroman** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:12 pm

They tried RTS on the console with C&C3 and that game, in my opinion, was horrible. I really hope they can make this happen, and if not, just release it on the PC...please.

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:23 pm

I watched it now, and there are many instances where the controller just doesn't work as well as a mouse could. The entire selection process has to be made fairly annoying since you seem to have to move the entire screen to where the unit is instead of just being able to flick your mouse over to a corner and click and tell him to fly somewhere else, also fairly quickly. There also doesn't seem to be a selection box, only that little paint brush which does the job fairly weakly.

The only benefit is that they can tune the game to the console instead of trying to make it balanced for a variety of systems... but that's not worth it (and also true for any game, so it's sort of irrelevant)

turk645 · Post by **turk645** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 4:10 pm

best quote from the vid "the scarab gun has an anti everything gun"

bibbit · Post by **bibbit** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 4:15 pm

Pyroman wrote:They tried RTS on the console with C&C3 and that game, in my opinion, was horrible. I really hope they can make this happen, and if not, just release it on the PC...please.

*cough* Starcraft 64

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 4:23 pm

bibbit wrote:
Pyroman wrote:They tried RTS on the console with C&C3 and that game, in my opinion, was horrible. I really hope they can make this happen, and if not, just release it on the PC...please.
*cough* Starcraft 64

Not to mention Command and Conquer for PSX. ;p

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:45 pm

Command and conquer 64, red alert psx, red alert expansions etc etc. There have been quite a few RTS's on consoles.

The way they've done Halo wars does look pretty kool for a console. Notice the for a console.

I'm a big fan of RTS games, it'd be the best on the pc (which I believe will go to later anyway, even if its 2 years later id probably still buy it). But yeah I'm looking forward to this, especailly since the whole thing was designed for console, unlike cnc3.

Anyone else notice the build times for a warthog? O_O *click* 1 second later, WARTHOG READY

The way the designer's voice speaks is as if he had been drinking the night before.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:49 pm

ScottyGEE wrote:Anyone else notice the build times for a warthog? O_O *click* 1 second later, WARTHOG READY

Would you really want to watch him sitting there for 10 seconds or however long the real build time is?

Pyroman · Post by **Pyroman** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:24 pm

I meant the 360 people...geez. Never played any of those games on past consoles...

I'll probably just put this game on the rent list for now...

StalkingGrunt911 · Post by **StalkingGrunt911** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:26 pm

I don't really like the look of it, RTS aren't my thing anyways. If it was on PC I'd play it. It would be the first actual game I would have played on my computer. =x

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:52 pm

I'm disappointed... :\

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:56 pm

JK-47 wrote:I'm disappointed... :\

With/Because...?

sneakyn8 · Post by **sneakyn8** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:31 pm

i dont know if anyone noticed but bungie announced there are going to be 16 vehicles in halo 3 and there are 14 announced and two vehicles that havent been talked about for halo 3 in that vid an 14 + 2 = omg 16