Halo Wars: Definitive Edition

As a Halo and RTS fan, I love this game dearly. Halo Wars 2 is an improvement in nearly every way and I hope to see it ported to steam soon.

A fairly simple RTS even for its day, but it's charming in its simplicity and pretty addictive to boot, it doesn't feel shallow or unfinished at all. Artistically it's extremely faithful to the feel of the original Halo games (back then they were the only Halo games lol) in visuals, sounds, and overall tone/mood. The PC port is also a little better than the original version I remember playing so many years ago, they added some new hotkeys (including control groups) and slightly improved the graphics. I especially love the skulls and alternative gamemodes, not a lot of RTS games go beyond the basic KOTH/annihilation gamemodes and not a lot of games in general have quirky difficulty modifiers. My favourite game type is Reinforcement where your resources are consumed automatically every minute (on average, there's some random variation) in exchange for a random assortment of units. Even as an RTS veteran, I find Halo Wars to be a nice break from other games because its simplicity makes it so easy to pick up. It makes a good depression game in that respect, doesn't take much energy to get started here. Also, being able to see where your allies are looking on the minimap is a nice quality of life feature that I wish was in other strategy games.

Halo Wars fue una grata sorpresa. La historia te va atrapando poco a poco y hace un muy buen trabajo introduciéndote al universo de Halo sin sentirse pesada. La jugabilidad es sencilla de aprender, pero en dificultades altas cambia por completo. Si quieres completar todos los objetivos y conseguir las calaveras, vas a tener que estar pendiente del mapa todo el tiempo. Hay momentos bastante estresantes, pero de esos que hacen que quieras reintentar la misión hasta lograrlo. ¿Lo malo? Es un RTS más simplificado que otros del género y a veces la IA parece tener ventaja solo porque sí, lo que puede frustrar un poco. Aun con eso, me divertí muchísimo. Si te gusta Halo o quieres entrar al género de estrategia sin complicarte demasiado, vale totalmente la pena.

Played on Xbox definitive edition and just recently got into the steam version, I come back to it all the time, this game its seriously great and need more recognision then it gets today, has AMAZING graphics and runs EXTREMELY smoothly (11/10)

The Cobra saved me from depression.

Covenant is stinky and heroic mode is a weird difference from normal

Very clunky, and the UI could be better. However overall a good game, very graphically pleasing especially if you like Halo because this RTS leans into Halo realism.

Great game

My favorite installment in the Halo franchise

Halo wars in a nutshell: Play the covenant team Have a perfectly well constructed army of every element have your whole army and base get wiped out by master chief drunk driving a wraith 15 seconds later 10/10 would play again