Halo Wars
Game » consists of 14 releases. Released Feb 26, 2009
Halo Wars is a real-time strategy game for the Xbox 360. Join the Halo Wars crew on the UNSC ship CFV-88 Spirit of Fire and engage the Covenant head-on in an attempt to hold on to the recently taken human colony of Harvest. All Units!
Halo Wars Stat-Tracking, Official Website Gone Dec. 15
The few people who still want to talk Halo Wars, however, will be given an option to do so elsewhere in an "official" environment. On the cut-off date, Microsoft will be "transitioning" the Halo Wars forums to Halo Waypoint's forums, which are "a lot less chaotic" than the Halo Wars boards. No posts or previous threads will make it to the new home.
Sour fans and community members will earn a bauble for their sign-up troubles if they choose to follow the conversation to the Halo Waypoint boards, the post reads. A special HaloWars.com forum avatar for use on Halo Waypoint will be offered to those who PM their new user names to this guy.
Just to be perfectly clear, Halo Wars multiplayer will continue to stay online and playable. This title update only removes the game's stat-tracking. You'll be able to continue to play the game online for, you know, funsies before and after this all goes down in December.
Halo Wars debuted on February 26, 2009. It was the last game created by Ensemble Studios, the original creators of Age of Empires.
The few people who still want to talk Halo Wars, however, will be given an option to do so elsewhere in an "official" environment. On the cut-off date, Microsoft will be "transitioning" the Halo Wars forums to Halo Waypoint's forums, which are "a lot less chaotic" than the Halo Wars boards. No posts or previous threads will make it to the new home.
Sour fans and community members will earn a bauble for their sign-up troubles if they choose to follow the conversation to the Halo Waypoint boards, the post reads. A special HaloWars.com forum avatar for use on Halo Waypoint will be offered to those who PM their new user names to this guy.
Just to be perfectly clear, Halo Wars multiplayer will continue to stay online and playable. This title update only removes the game's stat-tracking. You'll be able to continue to play the game online for, you know, funsies before and after this all goes down in December.
Halo Wars debuted on February 26, 2009. It was the last game created by Ensemble Studios, the original creators of Age of Empires.
" (an RTS halo game was a bad idea!) "ironic that Halo CE was originally an RTS to begin with...
What's with all the hate? Halo Wars is a fully competent and quite fun RTS. It may not set the world on fire, but that doesn't mean it was bad in any way. It's a shame that the stats are going down considering the love that Bungie-developed Halo games get, but really, the game still runs, so it's sort of a non-issue.
" It pisses me off this is the last game made by Ensemble Studios. What a shame. "Don't worry - they live vicariously through... Age of Empires Online.
Halo Wars is a great game and it sucks that stat tracking is going to be removed but at least the game still has online multiplayer. Hopefully after Age of Empires Online get's running for a bit, Robot can focus on Halo Wars 2 for the 360 and PC.
" What's with all the hate? Halo Wars is a fully competent and quite fun RTS. It may not set the world on fire, but that doesn't mean it was bad in any way. It's a shame that the stats are going down considering the love that Bungie-developed Halo games get, but really, the game still runs, so it's sort of a non-issue. "Yeah. YEAH. The most sound post here (besides the ALL UNITS ones). Solid game, it's annoying that the stat-tracking is going down (not even 2 years after the games release) but they aren't shutting down the servers or anything (and considering that the developers closed down a long time ago, that's something) so whatever.
Uhhh... anyone want to give me their halo wars game? I'll pay for shipping... Hell, I'll trade for Assasins Creed 1....
Fuck it! This game is still on my back log. As long as they
don't screw me out of any achievements then I guess it's
not a big deal. I wonder why they bother putting in a leader
board if they won't maintain it. Makes me wonder about
the future of other leader boards & online activity for these
games.
"And nothing of value was lost. "
Perhaps I shouldn't bother responding to someone with a blue name, but that's quite an unfair statement.
Microsoft have handled the game badly since before it even launched and although it isn't the greatest RTS ever, it was still quite a lot of fun to play. I'd liken it to LoTR: Battle For Middle Earth. Not a particularly deep RTS, but if you're into the univerese, there's plenty to enjoy. Especially as Halo as a lot of iconic and recognisable vehicles that could be used as units.
The game was overly simplified and was never going to find a market on the 360. But it was by no means a bad game.
Thats a little unfortunate, but oh well, I only checked out the stats site a couple times. This news makes me want to go back for that S rank though. I only need the General achievement, any duders wanna play, my tag is PrivateProlapse
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