I remember playing Halo Wars in a rock-paper-scissors strategy mentioned in the game's guidebook or from in-game tips, which is infantry beats aircraft, tanks beat infantry, aircraft beats tanks.

man i love this game,plus i particulary love the soundtrack for it.

I've never been a big fan of RTS games. I tried AOE2 and couldn't get into it, because I felt like there was way too much shit to remember. My First RTS was Populous: The Beginning. It's a pretty simple RTS as far as combat is concerned. Most of the strategy in the game comes down to deciding which spells to charge first and how you utilize them. Another reason I feel I couldn't get into RTSs, was because I was so used to Populous: The beginning and Dungeon Keeper 1 & 2 having a units panel that made it easy to keep track of all your units and micromanage them, without having to go to where they are. I personally don't think highly of Halo Wars. I think it's ok at best. A couple things you didn't mention for the selection controls is that you can cycle through the selection of units you have by type with the right trigger and you can cycle through different groups of units on the map by pressing down on the D-pad.

would love to hear your thoughts on the myth series one day

I've been waiting anxiously for a proper review of Halo Wars in years since its release date, and most game reviewers out there barely scored this game lower than a 6/10 (3/5), which is just sad, and in all honesty, it definitely deserves the 3/10 (1.5/5 in your case) score after all. Thanks for giving us a proper review and score of Halo Wars, DWT!

I just happen to have another question for your Q&A. What tools, equipment, and softwere do you use to make videos/edit videos?

At least it's not those awful Commandos Console ports which are borderline unplayable due to being stealth games requiring precision and quick movement. I am still baffled that Kalypso decided it was a "great" idea to try porting them to consoles again while still keeping the actual designed for consoles FPS spin-off Strike Force delisted. (Outside of Zoom platform, who worked out a deal with the previous publishers so they could keep selling it even after Kalypso got the series rights.)

I find it really funny that one of the earliest RTS games Herzog Zwei was a console exclusive.

lol. I heard about this in development years ago and just snorted at the idea of a console-only RTS. Also funny that this apparently manages to be far more simplistic even than the *original* 1994 Command & Conquer. Between Tiberian Wars, Ensemble folding, DOTA, it's no wonder the RTS genre died for good in the late 2000s. Thank god AoE2 got a remaster with many excellent expansions, if not for that, I don't think a single good RTS has been made since.. Dawn of War II?

What do you think about unlockable difficulty levels or if they should be already from the start?

For both Halo Wars and Halo Wars 2, why does the genre say Pseudo-RTS in the Reviews, MTOs, and Requests list?

It’s really interesting seeing a review of this game from the perspective of someone who actually knows what he’s talking about when it comes to rts games. When I played this I had fun with it, but after trying out more advanced rts games I now realize the game is filled with bad design choices and missed opportunities. It’s such a shame that Ensemble went out the way they did. If this game was made for pc I’m sure it could’ve been great (I have a similar story when it comes to Halo where I grew up with the series, but after playing more advanced fps games I now recognize the series has a lot of flaws and missed opportunities. For anyone reading this I’m not just talking about 343’s dumpster fires, but also the Bungie games. It would be interesting to see what a reimagining of the series with pcs in mind and better writing would be like). It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on the sequel. I like how brutal your videos are. Even if I love the games you cover I still find your videos to be super entertaining and fascinating.

Yep, agree with a lot of talking points here. Really hated UNSC being so turtle heavy, and controls suck, I still play it though with mods on.

Hi DW, is Baldur's Gate 3 on your list for reviews to come?

At 14:40 you mention your belief that .308 was an outdated cartridge even at the time that Halo CE was released. What cartridges do you feel were better than .308 at that time? Usually, the thing I hear brought up as the .308 killer is 6.5 Creedmoor, a cartridge that won't be invented for another 6 years after Halo CE's release, so I'm very curious to hear what you think is better

RTS is one of those types of games that works best with a keyboard and mouse.

The timing was funny Ive played this 3 days ago because of a friend Ended up thinking it was really boring and as a light rts, mich worse than something like tooth and tail (which wasnt that good to begin with) And then you review it and rip it appart xD

Wait, you don't recommend Halo 4 even through you gave a 3,5 to that one?

Have you reviewed Iron Harvest? Do you find it better than Halo Wars?

is there no way to rebind keys?

If Sony ever ports their “Halo Killers” like Resistance and Killzone to pc do you think you’d cover them? Since they’re putting a bunch of their games on Steam that might be a possibility (assuming they’re smart about it and make MCC style collections). It’s so funny how the hardcore Sony fans are losing their minds that more people will be able to play their games, and that they’ll be on a platform where they’ll actually be preserved. Plus, mods will be able to fix various small issues with the games.

Company of Heroes 3 and Ruse were RTS games on consoles.

The bases remind me of the ones from that s***ity Command and Conquer mobile game.

Love the game. It's a must for Halo and Light RTS Fans.

I’ve been reading the comments on your other Halo videos and WOW! Halo fans are some of these most spergy unbelievably cancerous people (I’ve already known that, but seeing the way they react whenever someone bashes their sacred cow is another thing). Someone once said the Halo community is the Sonic fandom of Halo and that is 100% accurate. There are SO MANY parallels between those two. I grew up with the Halo series and put who knows how many hours into the games, so it holds a very special place in my heart. That being said, I’m well aware it has various flaws and you can make a lot of numerous ways 343 and Bungie could’ve avoided certain mistakes and made the games better. There’s a lot of missed opportunities when it comes to story and gameplay (for me one of the biggest is the fact there’s no human enemies. We should’ve been fighting against humans and alongside Brutes as the Arbiter prior to the Great Schism. Human enemies should’ve been part of Infinite since the Banished will let anyone join regardless of species, but the game never once gives you that information. We also should’ve had a dlc campaign where you play as an Elite who’s sent in various loosely connected missions during Reach). If someone criticizes things I like I’ll disagree with them and try to refute them if they get things wrong, but I’m not going to attach my ego to a video game. Assuming you read this, what are some of the ways you would’ve improved Halo? It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on that.

Halo Wars servers down?

Looks like Command & Conquer to me. 😂

Neither the world nor the gameplay of the Halo titles ever looked interesting to me, so I used to assume that the story must be the good part of those games, that is until I saw the reviews of them on this channel. I found it baffling that even after CoD dethroned the franchise, pretty much everybody was "super excited" when the next Halo got announced, or showcased, "this is gonna be big, man". At least that seems to be finally over with Infinite... In 500 years I doubt any of caliber today's calibers will be around, we already came close to adopt caseless ammunition once, and although that fell through, 7.62x51 itself is facing serious competition now from both above (.338 Norma and LM), and below (6.8x51mm).

Too long, don't read: I grew up thinking Halo was overrated but recently replayed it and changed my mind. I actually started playing Halo 1 again recently. I haven't played it since a kid and while I beat it, I never understood the story and the games afterwards were spent playing multiplayer with friends and family. I've always thought the halo series was overrated and never wanted to replay the series for the single player campaign until recently. Let me start by saying this.... Halo 1 was completely ahead of it's time. I now see why my cousin and everybody else was obsessed with it so long ago. The music...god the music. The gameplay. For it's time it released in 2001, it was completely ahead of it's time. If you think about it, really took first person shooter gameplay and refined it. They had all these mechanics that complimented each other in combat like melee, grenades, your shields, switching and experimenting with the guns. The level design. I personally loved the level design. Having vehicles was awesome to traverse but having these huge maps really gave you the feeling that you were really walking on the surface of the ring, of Halo. It felt grand and epic. The story is amazing. I don't know why I didn't understand it as a kid and didn't care but it's pretty cool as a whole. The particle effects from the guns and explosions. Riding the scorpion tank across iced over lakes and seeing ice particles shoot out. Overall, when you add up everything, it really is an amazing game and a strong reminder as to why it had the popularity that it did. It always seemed like a simple first person shooter to me as a kid. Playing it now, you realize just how polished and refined everything was. You can really tell a ton if money went into development, I mean hell, it was supposed to be a real time strategy game at first with a birds eye view. So much has changed and it was for the better. I recommend you go back and play it. I'm 33 and have games in my life I always thought were overrated but going back, it's easy to see why they were so good.

This is the best RTS console ever made those that think this game is bad must really suck at the game

Lol just bought this on PC, $6 can't go wrong. 🍺👍

I’m not even at the end and it already sounds like a 1/5.

Bungie is the last company that is allowed to tell anyone who and who isn't "whoring" out a franchise!! This garbage studio produces only one game over and over just in different colors and that is their already mediocre and outdated "Marathon" Franchise! Halo is the 2001 version of Marathon and focking Destiny is a Marathon cardboard copy like unseen before! From the alien worlds and base interiors to the copy past Alien Models. And people still pretend it aint so! Not mention how ffing baren the levels in all the Halo games are. Especially the ever same metallic empty dungeons where you know exactly when enemies are gonna spawn out of thin air or the developers azz... Bungie is a POS company. And stealing/deleting/removing content people payed for is all the proof you need to know how morally and creatively bankrupt they truly are! Content Theft and copy past development.

Halo spanks actually 😂