It's end of days for Ensemble Studios. The developer most famous for its Age of Empires real-time strategy series on the PC is in its last few months of wrapping up Halo Wars. Normally, that's good news for both gamers and the people working on the game -- except the finish line here will probably see more tears than sighs of relief.
The studio is shutting down after Halo Wars ships this February for the Xbox 360. And while discussing that near future nearly makes their eyes well up and voices crack, they're also gung-ho about going out with a bang that can only be matched by a certain galaxy-annihilating alien artifact. See what Lead Writer Graeme Devine and Lead Designer Dave Pottinger have to say about their near-finished project, the team's last few months together, and Microsoft's decision to close their shop.
Did Bungie actually hate Halo Wars? Why wasn't Master Chief in the game? Lead designer Dave Pottinger reveals all.
Halo Wars is still widely considered one of the best and most accessible RTS games around, and that formula could work with other Microsoft IPs.
I think Crackdown would fit in a more turn-based tactics system via Xcom then a RTS type game play. Being able to customize multiple agents, deploying that group in an crime infested urban zone, going against other super powered enemy and fodder type thugs. The potential for that is huge if they won't do another successful, ground breaking, GOTY open world outing like Crackdown 3....
NoobFeed Editor Joshua Burt writes - There are many games in the famous Halo Franchise that are stellar titles and need to be revered. And some that do not. These games stand out from the crowd and deluge of colossal Halo titles. Games that made Halo great. We do need to iron out what qualifies the game for this list. They have to be in the Halo franchise… Obviously.
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Halo 3 at the top is correct the only thing id change is swap infinite and halo ce around.
Halo 4 has the hottest Cortana too which explains why the MC is the hardest in that campaign and why H4's multiplayer is the illest. Chief ain't afraid to take on teleporting enemies that can one hit melee kill.
