halowars gameplay footage

V0Lt4Ge · Post by **V0Lt4Ge** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:44 pm

sneakyn8 wrote:i dont know if anyone noticed but bungie announced there are going to be 16 vehicles in halo 3 and there are 14 announced and two vehicles that havent been talked about for halo 3 in that vid an 14 + 2 = omg 16

Okay. What does this have to do with the Halo Wars demo?

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:50 pm

I think he's trying to say something about two vehicles in the Halo Wars video, but I can't understand fully.

V0Lt4Ge · Post by **V0Lt4Ge** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:52 pm

Ah, alright.

auerhantheman1 · Post by **auerhantheman1** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:55 pm

i think he means the wolverine and the other vehicle in the circle menu where he gets the warthogs in the video.

Danke · Post by **Danke** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:58 pm

Tural wrote:I think he's trying to say something about two vehicles in the Halo Wars video, but I can't understand fully.

Unless they've already been announced as H3 vehicles, I think he means the flying UNSC thing (Did he say Orc? I couldn't tell) and the Anti-aircraft thing (wolverine?)

It looks nice, but doesn't look like it would be much fun to play. I'm not a big RTS fan, and playing on a console would just ruin it for me. The whole time I'd want to press a button and switch to FPS, but couldn't.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 1:03 pm

I'm not sure what he said, but the flying vehicle looked nearly identical to the Hornet, which we've seen in Halo 3.

sneakyn8 · Post by **sneakyn8** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 1:24 pm

o.k. i was talking about the hawk which i had heard also referred to as the sparrow hawk and the rhino but there is also the wolverine but i don't think that will be in halo 3 because it can only be used against aerial things and the hawk is different from the hornet in design its longer and narrower and doesn't have seats

newbymodder · Post by **newbymodder** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 1:32 pm

the hawk seems to me pretty close to the wasp but way different from the hornet and ya i agree about the wolverines they won't be needed for halo 3 the architecture of halo wars puzzles me its supposed to be post halo yet those buildings seem very forerunner, the narrator said that it was a re captured planet so are those buildings supposed to be covenant? they don't seem too covenant at all more forerunner, the mac was awesome can't wait to get my hands on that but the scarab in halo wars seems to have unlimited fire, where as if you read the books and see in halo 2 the scarab only has a set limit so that it can use its main plasma gun oh well i notice the few differences but im for sure buying it, i was always under the general impression that halo wars was a pc based game but its for 360 0_o good thing i bought one. and iv been apart of halo wars forum for a long time and i think we all thought it was a pc based game lol

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 1:54 pm

This game's being made by Ensemble Studios...not Bungie. Just because something exists in their Halo-verse doesn't mean Bungie is going to use it in Halo 3.

Prey · Post by **Prey** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 2:07 pm

newbymodder wrote:i was always under the general impression that halo wars was a pc based game but its for 360 0_o good thing i bought one. and iv been apart of halo wars forum for a long time and i think we all thought it was a pc based game lol

No, I think that was just you...

I like the video, seeing everything in miniature version is just very cool

..but I do wish you could switch to first person, as that always makes these types of games about 10x funner

..oh well, I'll just stick with a copy of Halo3.

newbymodder · Post by **newbymodder** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 2:33 pm

-_- no where on the halo wars forum when it was first released that the game was going to be made didn't ever say for xbox 360 it only said Ensemble Studios so i thought oh a halo type age of empires and i haven't visited the site in 1 year

Ultramarines217 · Post by **Ultramarines217** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 2:53 pm

Lovelllyyyy great job Ensemble

Hawaiian Modder · Post by **Hawaiian Modder** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 6:39 pm

I thought it was a 360 game from beginning.
I think it's in there FAQ or something, I remember seeing it somewhere.

newbymodder · Post by **newbymodder** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 6:45 pm

well when i was on the site for halo wars it just said Ensemble Studios it didn't say 360 but im kinda glad it is now the graphics will be awesome

TomClancey · Post by **TomClancey** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 7:52 pm

newbymodder wrote:well when i was on the site for halo wars it just said Ensemble Studios it didn't say 360 but im kinda glad it is now the graphics will be awesome

On the first trailer it showed the Xbox 360 logo and it had 'teamxbox' on the bottom right hand corner through out the whole video.

I'm pretty sure that means it's for the 360.

newbymodder · Post by **newbymodder** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 8:37 pm

? guess im retarded. u mean the first trailer vid right? well i never noticed that just the ensemble studios emblem.

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 8:56 pm

yeah the build times were probably edited for demonstration purposes, it's usually like that, i think.

As for the actual game, it's great and all but I keep thinking that there could be more, like a more halo feel to it. To me, right now this looks like Command and Conquer 3 with the units modded to have their models and sounds changed to halo-like ones. I also think the camera is too far away, from that distance it takes away the whole "in your face" idea of the game, something that I think was really part of halo.

I want to see things that made Halo.. Halo. I want to see a grunt die in a couple hits, I want to see elites absurdly hard to kill, jumping brawling through marines, taking them out in a couple hits. Grunts shouldn't be able to take tons of fire like they did in that vid. Grunts are weak, it's their whole point. Marines are average, they're your average Marine (see Starcraft comparison).

I think their actual unit abilities should be fairly similar to the Zerg vs Terran area...

Grunt = Zergling
Marine = Marine
Elite = Zealot but more powerful (expensive, of course)

As for the warthogs, i'm happy with them up to the point of their guns. What happened to the driving around in circles, avoiding fire while the gunner blows the enemy to bits? In the game, this is fairly boring. The warthog drives up to the enemy and starts shooting, but staying in place. How is this new?

I don't know, i'll wait until I see more videos of it to (and more of it completed) make my final verdict. The video wasn't too great at showing off the real game.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 9:00 pm

Also, I understand the balance issue behind it sorta...but why the fuck can't the Warthog just aim upwards and shoot the Banshees/other aircraft? It's got a fucking LAAG. I mean, it should at least be able to do a small amount of damage to air units. Other RTS have had units that have been able to shoot at air and ground units with no problems balancing them (Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge's Gatling Tanks and base defenses are a prime example).

newbymodder · Post by **newbymodder** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 9:46 pm

i thought the narrator said the warthogs were shooting the banshee's a little but were focusing on the troops more so i assume that if there are just banshee's that your hog will shoot at it but if troops are there they will shoot at that as for the comparisons and how its kinda non halo i totally agree with everything said

sneakyn8 · Post by **sneakyn8** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 6:41 pm

i thnk it would be fun if we forgot it was halowars and just thought it was futuristicwars