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Halo Wars Demo Downloaded Over 2 Million Times, Sets New Record
by Chris Faylor, Feb 13, 2009 8:38am PSTMicrosoft has revealed that the downloadable demo for Ensemble Studios' Halo Wars was downloaded more than 2 million times in the week following its February 5 debut.
In addition, the Xbox 360 strategy game demo set a day-one record for demo downloads, and was said to be among Xbox Live's "top demo
downloads of all time." The full version of Halo Wars hits North American retailers on March 3.
For those keeping track, that means Halo Wars beat out the Resident Evil 5 demo, which was downloaded 1.8 million times in its first week of availability. Microsoft did not specify if Halo Wars was able to achieve a million downloads in three days, as RE5 did.
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With that said, I'd love to play this game if it ever gets a PC port.
oh yeah... don't buy it.
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Meanwhile, my wife is an avid console gamer and has never gotten into RTS games. Last night she played through this demo and loved it so much that she said that she is willing to dig into some C&C with me on the PC because she is starting to "get it" now when it comes to RTS gameplay.
I think I'm going to have to purchase this game, if for no other reason than to encourage her and some other friends to see how much fun RTS can be. I figure if these non-PC gamers start liking it on the console, it might win them over on the PC side.