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king_of_the_castle on 02 July 2008

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Let's hope MS doesn't saddle this game with dual analog controls. Ensemble and Halo deserve better than that. I would hate to see a great RTS (which Ensemble is surely putting together) be ruined by a shit control scheme.

What do you mean by "dual analog controls", Left moves screen, right moves cursor?

The only thing I've seen about the controls so far on this game is what they called the "paint" system, where you would hold down a button and the cursor would be highlighted, and then everything you touched would become "painted", and that's how you would select units. That was a while ago though, so I'm not sure if it's changed since then.

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Strategyking92 on 02 July 2008

Skeptical.... Age of Empires 3 wasn't very good...... Ensemble needs this to be their comeback for me. (and release a demo this september)

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ChartsViewer on 02 July 2008

Nice pictures!

For the ones talking about consoles controllers, please try Command & Conquer Kanes Wrath and then you can talk....

Kanes Wrath has the best control system ever, even better than PC mouse.... Honestly, try it!

Consoles are good for RTS too :)

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TheRealMafoo on 02 July 2008

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2nd Pic looks horrible compared to the 3rd Pic

Whats up with that? The parts that look good look awesome, but the parts that look bad look terrible. I'm gonna wait to see this one in motion before I make up my mind but it looks like certain aspects have been given a lot more detail than others.

It's still in development, so don't expect it to look perfect :).

This looks to be shaping up well. I hope they get all the things that make a great RTS great. The presentation at least looks top quality.

I will pick this up for the PC, I think. If it comes out around the time of SC2, I will just get that. If this come out ahead of SC2, I will get this one.

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rocketpig on 02 July 2008

king_of_the_castle said:

rocketpig said:
Let's hope MS doesn't saddle this game with dual analog controls. Ensemble and Halo deserve better than that. I would hate to see a great RTS (which Ensemble is surely putting together) be ruined by a shit control scheme.

What do you mean by "dual analog controls", Left moves screen, right moves cursor?

The only thing I've seen about the controls so far on this game is what they called the "paint" system, where you would hold down a button and the cursor would be highlighted, and then everything you touched would become "painted", and that's how you would select units. That was a while ago though, so I'm not sure if it's changed since then.

I mean the standard, dual analog 360 controller. Unless Ensemble somehow gets a square peg to fit into a round hole, the controls will probably be what holds this game back more than anything.

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Tigawoods on 02 July 2008

http://www.halowars.com/faq.aspxQ: Will I be able to play Halo Wars on Xbox 360 and PC? A: Halo Wars is for the Xbox 360 exclusively.

For now it will remain on the 360. The Halo name can sell 1 million copies so im sure it will do much better than that. It's not going to be a Starcraft kind of game but it will still probably be the best selling RTS on a console to date....which isn't saying much since someone on here said that it would have to sell over 1.5m.

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mrstickball on 02 July 2008

HW isn't the first-ever RTS to be built for consoles.

Herzog, and its succuessor, Herzog Zwei did it almost 20 years ago - fantastically, I might add.

It can be done, and done well. It's just a matter of the developer's will to build the gameplay around the control, not the control around the gameplay.

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