- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
This is one PC gamer who won't be getting a 360 ever, even if they release Halo Wars for FREE. RTS belongs on the PC, and quite frankly seeing Halo Wars being for the 360 is insulting, no RTS on a console has ever done as well, or been as good as, it's PC counterpart, or any PC RTS. This is not the same sinario as video game movies always being bad, thats due to idiots being given the rights to make them, this has to do with the vast limitations of a console for RTS gaming, so I see only one possibility that will see Halo Wars be a good RTS on a console: the removal of all the things that you must have a keyboard to do. That leaves perhaps the core of what an RTS is, but takes the genre back a decade in terms of additional features and controls that have been added over the years. I see vast menu options to make up for hotkeys, slower gameplay, and the death of the finer points of micromanagement that makes the latest RTS games shine.
My sentiments exactly. Not to mention that because it is also going to be exclusively for a console, there will likely be no map editor for it, which in my opinion is an integral element of all good RTS games. Even if it does somehow manage to include a map editor, it will have a great lack of sophistication compared to the PC because downloading custom sounds, files, and mods for your maps will prove to be much more difficult. On top of that, trying to create 3D levels with a controller would be painstakingly annoying. Without a decent level editor I will become very bored with this game fairly quickly.
[Edited on 9/27/2006]