The stock for Halo Wars keeps going up, even though every RTS that is released on console has been a flop. Even EndWar, with its revolutionary voice control which actually makes an RTS work on console still didn't sell well. The stock is predicting 3 million copies now? I remember shorting this thing at 1.5 million copies back in the day.
The trading on the new Metacritic Future (though early) doesn't seem to predict great reviews for this title either. I think this stock should be at 100 DKP at best.
MS moved the date to coincide with the launch of a KZ2. Interesting. They tried doing the same with GTA4 DLC before when they said the launch date was FEb. 17, also the rumored launch date for KZ2.
Microsoft's Robbie Bach just announced during the company's CES keynote that a demo for Ensemble's swansong title, Halo Wars on the 360, will be made available for download on Xbox Live on February 5.
What's more, he announced that Halo Wars would be out on February 28, instead of the previously-announced March 3, bringing the US release into line with the rest of the world.
Late last week, the crew at Ensemble left us a present and we didn't even notice it. The company unlocked every unit and structure in both the UNSC and Covenant field manuals for Halo Wars. If you're hankerin' for some Halo Wars, you might want to browse through each field manual. After all, the game is only a few months away, so you might as well start planning your strategies now.
Microsoft confirmed today that Halo Wars, he action-based strategy game set in the iconic Halo Universe and created exclusively for Xbox 360, will be available in Europe on 27th February, whilst America will get it slightly later on 3rd March.
After my brief time with the Halo Wars campaign, I came away impressed with the controls – easy to use but deep enough to allow truly tactical thinking. And the larger-than-life Halo storytelling is here, too. From what I've seen so far, Halo fans will be quickly drawn into the prequel story, which includes strong characters, cool new vehicles and even a Cortana-like AI named Serina (fanboys, register your domain names now).
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There was a bug with the system and it has now been corrected.