Halo Wars 2 is a real-time strategy game caught between console and PC
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Halo Wars 2 is a game that very visibly straddles the divide between console and PC. It’s a real-time strategy game, decease a genre that — along with the MOBA and the MMORPG — has traditionally confined itself to the home computer. It’s also a Halo game, patient representing a series that drove the original success of Microsoft’s Xbox consoles, healing and became responsible for rehoming first-person shooters on TVs after Doom, Quake, and Half-Life started the genre on the PC. But these two opposing aspects of the game never fully reconcile.
In superficial ways, Halo Wars 2 feels like an extension of the Halo shooters. There’s the same super-soldier space marines, the same vehicles, the same weapons. The game is interspersed with similarly lavish cutscenes,…
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