It has no chance of getting excellent reviews if they treated it like the first one. You'd read something like it doesn't offer what other big PC RTS games offer. You can't offer as much as these games and make it simple enough to be controlled by controller. Halo Wars was just perfect in my opinion. A developer with such a history sure knows how to add more stuff but didn't for a reason.

I expect something around a million lifetime. The first one wouldn't reach that number without bundling and that one was at Halo peak.

I'd like to see a simple version of the achievements league. Just the total gamescore for each month. If you want to add something add TrueAchievements points and that's it. Don't add useless load no one cares about.

If it gets good reviews like 90+ i think it will sell well on word of mouth. If it gets low 80s and mid 80s then it will do probably sell 1m-1.5m LT. MS marketing is crap for it and its their biggest game this year. They are probably saving marketing money for Scorpio.

Think I'm going to get Deadlight DC from this week's sale. Already finished it on 360 and it was a pretty good game IMO.

Would love to see a revival of the Gamerscore League. (Voted yes)

I've done my part for halo wars 2. I preordered the deluxe edition after watching the launch trailer.Microsoft's first party games need the all the sales they can get.

I'd like to see a revival of the GS league.

Watched the halo wars stream. Not a lot learned besides I saw there are 12 missions in the game. Blitz firefight looks awesome.

This game is packed with content.
•. Singleplayer /coop campaign. 12 missions
• traditional mp that includes pvp and pve. We still don't know the maps. I saw at least 6 in the stream but there should be more.
• blitz and blitz firefight is like a separate mp kind of like war zone in halo 5
• I assume 1-2 hrs of the best cgi cinamatics in exsistence. I saw the first 2 missions and they had a combined 15 minutes. To put that into perspective halo wars 1 had 35 minutes of cgi.

The gameplay, graphics, and amount of content is fantastic so as long as the story, balance, and servers are all good it should review really well.

Just completed quantum break today, final score would be a solid : 8.6/10
I hope it's given another chance sometime, just like I hope sunset overdrive, and recore as well. Would like a ryse 2 as well

Hopefully the amount of 3v3 or larger maps is higher than the abysmal 3 that was included in Halo Wars 1. They did add a fourth via DLC... But by the time that released the population had imploded and I only got to play on that map like once in regular match making.

The single player component was rock solid in Halo Wars 1 though, still looks and plays great today all things considered, certainly Halo Wars 1 strongest  point... So I will be happy if that carry's on.

I just hope Blitz isn't ruined by unlocks/microtransactions. It worry's me to be honest... And hopefully Microsoft supports the game for longer than 6 months.

Ya I seen the first 2 missions, including cutscenes and it doesn't disappoint. I also hope for a lot of 3v3 maps as that's my most played mode. As far as blitz goes I'm not to worried as I'll most likely be playing a lot more of firefight than the standard. And I'm pretty sure that I'll play enough wars to have a decent deck.