Silicon Valley (ITavisen): It is time to bring the RTS genre back.
Redmond, Washington (ITavisen:) We were invited to 343 Industries' offices in Redmond, Washington, to allow the international press get a first look at Halo Wars 2s Blitz game mode.
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Halo Wars 2, the sequel to the RTS game (rts) the Xbox launched in 2009, is nearing final completion after around three years of development.
We tested so far eneren for many, many years ago, but not much, so we hardly had the knowledge to just this series. It also does not as much, for the new spillmoduset Blitz turns mostly on the head – also, we hoped always that it would come to Windows 10.
the Game is launched 21. February 2017, not very long, but the developers made it clear that there are a good number of the things that remain; the game is simply not “feature complete” yet, but the modes of play, design and how the game is played in broad terms, it is done with continuously improvements, of course, is also after the launch.
See us play
We recommend that you read the entire text before you see us play.
Blitz against the AI:
2 against 2 PVP (we win!):
2 against 2 PVP (we lost):
the Same orchestra that recorded the music of Star Wars: the Force Awakens
Microsoft has so much faith on the project that they have spent a lot of time on things like sound design to make the battlefield as deep and exciting as possible.
– It is important for the player to use the sound to get the overview over the battlefield and hear where the enemy comes from, explained lyddesigneren us. The music is composed by Gordy Haab from the Finishing Move.
You who follow us on Instagram may have seen some photos from the audiodesign already – among other things, that they took up the sounds from the real flame-throwers and tanks!
a Bit about setting
In Halo Wars 2 fight against a new type of Brutes, called The Banished, with a new enemy-the big guy who sjefstøffing: Atriox.
the Brutes were, for those who know Halo loren, used by the Crusaders as the blink and the first infantry on the battlefield like ground beef, but the Atriox had enough and has taken control of large parts of the Crusaders' weapons and technology, as well as a good portion of the crew, and screwed together armor and weapons in a terrifying way that is appropriate for the Brutes.
343 pointed out that the Atriox to have depth, and that you should be able to understand, if not have deep charity, but at least understand in a way why he does what he does. We hope they succeed in making Atriox emotionally multi-dimensional.
Halo Wars 2-the universe is connected towards the Halo 5 historiemessig, but only in the details, the game is added up for all those who are not familiar with the Halo can throw themselves into it without having to feel excluded.
A completely new AI, Isabel (a former logistics-AI, and is in other words not as snobbish), has been given the job of associate historieelementene together.
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Blitz
343 and Microsoft pushes not only a RTS-games out on the market and hope for the best. No, this time they hope to be able to tempt people who don’t have as much knowledge of the RTS genre with a lynkjapt, action-characterized and tactical lightning-aggressive game mode called Blitz, with matches on average lasts around 10 minutes.
Blitz gives players a quite small map (what we tested, it comes naturally more, we played 2 against 2 on the Xbox One) and a deck of cards with the devices. You can choose to use standarddekket, or create your own deck connected to the captain you choose: hero captain Cutter or Atroix was the elections, the press was offered in the test.
You must hold more points than the enemy to win, and pick up the money that makes it possible for you to press a card on the second to conjure tanks, aircraft or infantry. Place them tactically, and you can knock the air out of the opponent who was arrogant confident to win the section 1 of 3 before you.
You must not stay on the control point to take it for a long time, it keeps that you are there solely without other enemies – on the second you have control, but can lose it fairly quickly. The mode is called, not Blitz without reason.
We also tested against the PC each round gets tougher and tougher (PVP was not ready for Windows for this pressetreffet) – we managed to survive to round 20, which is not completely surprising, was not enough to be among the top five in pressekorpset, but we promise that ITavisens representative in each case did not the worst.
But is it fun?
It is difficult to say anything final about a game having tested it in a few hours, this is especially true for games that require some tactics that Halo Wars 2.
So the question as to whether you should buy this or not is too early to say, but we can reveal that we had it so fun that we were disappointed when we had to leave from the us the controllers and fly home.
Is it fuck and to play the RTS with the Xbox control? Yes and no. Yes, it doesn’t feel good after having come from the mouse and keyboard, but after half an hour we found out that the developers have done a good job with the layout.
We think it work well, so well that it is hardly a reason not to get the game if you want it on the Xbox, but we prefer the mouse and keyboard.
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No numbers
After the session, we asked the developers at the Creative Assembly as the construction of the game along with 343 why they have chosen not to reveal the numbers and stats behind the cards. Instead, reveal cards what they are best at, and what you definitely should not use a device to (the Nightingale as angrepsenhet for example, when this helicopter does not do anything other than to medicate your troops).
This is for the good players who spend a lot of time on the game should not be able to sit and make statistics over the best tires, and therefore make it boring for those who are not as experienced.
Several of the people that work with Halo Wars 2, has been working with the Total War series and Alien Isolation – strong seal of approval.
Halo Wars 2 launches for the Xbox One and Windows 10 21. February 2017.
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