Halo Wars E3 2007 Demonstration Video

I am disappointed that it will be a 360 exclusive. I prefer to play my RTS games on the PC. I will definitely play it and enjoy it, but I know I am still going to wish I had that mouse control. We will see.

Other than that, it looks pretty cool. I like the way the warthogs fishtail just like they do in HALO1/2/3 and the animations look pretty good. I hope the AI is improved and the units run for cover and stuff. Stop,squat, and fire kind of feels out of place in this universe once you have played the previous games and saw how well the enemy reacted.

I do like the sense of scale they have in the game. It looks as though the proportions for men/vehicles/buildings is pretty close to what it would really be. Most strategy games have these ridiculous proportions, mostly with buildings, where it's way out of scale with the individual unit size.

Overall I am still looking forward to it.

I wasn't expecting such a turd of a demo!

Like everybody else said, the AI and troop movement looked so dumb...the units just move into position and then immediately stand still and start shooting. I'm not a huge Halo fan, but they didn't capture the Halo combat here at all. Where's the chaos? Where's the crazy heroic stunts? The most "chaos" I'm seeing here is that stupid camera jerking around to continuously issue new "move" commands on each square foot of terrain.

Dare I say this is one of the first RTS games to really show how terrible RTS game conventions are? When I give an order for some Warthogs to go kill some enemy soldiers, I don't want to have to click on every single patch of ground that I want the vehicle to drive over...that's just ridiculous. The order should simply be "Attack these enemies" and the AI intelligently moves the vehicles, runs over the enemies that it can, and shoots the others. That would be a "strategy" game. I want an RTS game where you're the commander issuing orders to autonomous troops, not the puppetmaster controlling each individual unit as if it's a Diablo character.

That's somewhat forgivable in a cartoon-style RTS like Starcraft, but in a game like this where everything looks and behaves realistically, the old mechanics just don't make any sense.

It looks nice, but will this game come out for PC??

Very ........World of Conflict-y ?

I hate being Joe negative but this does nothing for my sphincter excita trigger

Stratgey games are not for consoles, xbox pad don't have easy hotkeys. Like A to attack to, H to hold, ect.
Starcraft 2 is gonna own this game.

I think that for a game that's meant to give you a heads-down view of the Halo games, it might make sense to have it so that units don't simply move to one location and stand there. Like, the Spartans that got creamed in the beginning might see that they're outnumbered and take cover in their immediate environment, which would give them a chance to recharge. The Warthogs should try to avoid damage and outflank their enemies by driving circles around them. The stuff might have a variable impact on gameplay, but it would feel more like a battle in Halo with AI that attempts to look and act like people really playing Halo.

Looks like he was struggling with the controls a little bit. Especially when he was trying to control the camera. They still got a lot of kinks to iron out.

The graphics look great, though.

Supreme Commander just called... They want there spider bot back.

No Keyboard & Mouse = Fail

I'm not an RTS guy, but I dug Myth:TFL and I was hoping for something awesome like that and not another RTS also-ran that can't possibly topple the best PC games like Star Craft.

The demo looked like a progression of using bigger sticks against smaller foes. Soldiers get beat by grunts which get beat by warthogs, etc. In the end, I couldn't help but wonder why they didn't just orbitally bombard everything in the first place.

I remember Graeme Devine from his id days..

He worked on Q3A right?

Not what I had hoped for :(

When they said they had designed it from the ground up for a console I had high hopes, yet it still looks like it would be better to play with a mouse.

I was hoping they were going to do something truly revolutionary with the control system and make it something considerably different to PC rts games.

The last part of that video is fucking awesome.

Is it just me or does this Universe edging into looking like Starship Troopers?

all the levels look the same

Front page shows alone in the dark video.

Looks cool. I'm worried the interface will be a bit clunky though, i'm not too keen on the console RTS fad that seems to be picking up steam.

Is it just me or is the sound very low? My system's volume is at the max.

Those are some spazzy warthog drivers...
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