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No, it's not that it's an RTS on console... I think it CAN be done... sorta...

If anything, I'm a halo fanboy. Halo wars is an absolute joke, and it contains more canon mistakes than "Contact Harvest."

There is no flood on reach. THERE IS NO FLOOD ON REACH. All along we've been telling Ensemble "put the flood in multiplayer... not in single player" and they go and make it an entire playable race.

Problems with halo wars are as follows:

-You cannot make a pelican/phantom

-You cannot make a Rocket or sniper marine



- The only marine special unit is a "starship trooper" look alike Flame throwing marine, a unit that never existed in halo.

- You cannot create Elites or brutes. They can only be created along with a bunch of grunts.

Just as well, halo wars remains to be full of canon blashpemy. The cover features a spartan holding a gun that wasn't even created for another 22-27 years

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As for "Flood on Reach", who said we were going to play against them on Reach? Halo Wars takes place on Harvest. And we don't even know if we wind up going to another planet during the campaign. The gurgley jerks might be hiding out on some other planet.

@OiScout:

I'm not quite sure what you're saying when you say "But then again, I've played FPS games before it." Before I played Halo, I played Medal of Honor on the Xbox and the PC, loved it to death, played Counterstrike, was underwhelmed by it, played Call of Duty on PC and Xbox, loved that, played both Star Wars: Battlefronts, still not tired of them, and played Goldeneye long ago at a friend's house. Hated that. Oh, and Timesplitters at school. Didn't quite grab me. Out of all of those games, not a single one of them had me enthralled by level design or story. Then I played Halo: Combat Evolved at my uncle's house, and was instantly hooked. I borrowed his copy and played the story to completion. The next day, I played it again to see if I missed any story details. Every now and then, I still boot up Halo: CE and explore the game world. I almost always wind up finding something new. Halo 2 was lent to me by my cousin, and I did the same thing again. Played the story twice, and got on to explore. Every once in a while the family would have gatherings, and I'd haul my Xbox along and me and my cousins would play some splitscreen. We all adored it, and had a hell of a lot of fun. Then my uncle convinced most of them that Halo was "unChristian" because of the Covenant. I didn't buy into that, so I still played. Got Xbox Live, and really got into that. Then Halo 3 was announced. I can't tell you how many times I've watched the announce trailer. I don't care how lame you think I am after I say this, but I was honestly in tears after the first time watching the thing. I joined the community at halo.bungie.org, and everyone was discussing story aspects and I loved it. After growing up with Nintendo, then Sony, I found the Xbox and that was the only system I needed. I bought a Wii, and it collected dust for three months before I decided to sell it. Mario, Sonic, and Crash Bandicoot have all been played out. None of their recent games captivate me like they did back then. Medal of Honor has also lost its luster in my eyes, and there's no new Battlefront in the near future. At least, not one that plays like the first two. Call of Duty is still one of my joys, and World at War consumed most of my time today, but I did get bored of it after a while. CoD4 bored me after a while, too. Halo, however, still holds my interest to this very day.

To sum this Great Wall of Text up, I grew up with other games, and played quite a few FPS games, but when I discovered Halo, none of them compared. It all boils down to personal opinion.

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*sigh* I meant harvest...



The spartan on the cover is holding an Ma5C

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Even 2?

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