Halo Wars 2 is not a bad game, but it just fails to do anything that really makes it excel and a must play. The Blitz multiplayer mode is an interesting innovation, but not enough to stop the campaign leaving a slight tinge of disappointment with the pac...
And remember, beyond those gameplay gripes, there's also a host of performance issues and control scheme issues, which (again) you can find in PCWorld's Halo Wars 2 review-in-progress from last week. Suffice it to say: The game doesn't quite nail ever...
Blitz helps nudge Halo Wars 2 from being a solid continuation of the eight-year-old design to being something I can actually see myself returning to again and again.The campaign gets off to an uninspiring start that continues on for a few hours as it duti...
For the first few minutes of Halo Wars 2, I felt uncomfortably overwhelmed - even as a veteran of the original game. After the first hour, however, I was hooked. 24 hours later, I find myself facing withdrawal symptoms, desperate to pick up the controller...
And remember, beyond those gameplay gripes, there's also a host of performance issues and control scheme issues, which (again) you can find in PCWorld's Halo Wars 2 review-in-progress from last week. Suffice it to say: The game doesn't quite nail everythi...
Published: 2017-02-23, Author: Ben , review by: nzgamer.com
Abstract: I don't know if I'd be so interested in Halo Wars 2 if I didn't care about the lore. Would I still care if they retained the same design but changed all the graphics to something else entirely? From a war room perspective, making a real-time strategy (RTS...
Published: 2017-02-22, Author: Chris , review by: eurogamer.net
Abstract: Halo Wars 2 has been designed, first and foremost, with a controller in mind. An improvement over even its predecessor here, it proves once again that real-time strategy isn't exclusive to PC players.Unit selection is perhaps the best example of this. Wit...
Abstract: 'War,' said Edwin Starr in 1970 Motown single War. 'Good god, now, what is it good for?' Starr wasn't talking about Halo Wars 2, Microsoft's latest game set in the Halo universe, but he could have been, because after 30 hours with Halo Wars 2, I don't rea...
Halo Wars 2 does a good job of bringing an RTS to a console, and should please fans of the franchise, but it's inevitably always going to feel like a bit of a compromise. The result is a strategy game that downplays the strategy in favour of fast-paced ac...
