Check out the video and learn your Halo history, because it's much more fun than learning about real history.
Video: The expanded Halo universe of Halo Wars
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Check out the video and learn your Halo history, because it's much more fun than learning about real history.
Reader Comments (16)
Posted: Feb 27th 2009 3:19PM (Unverified) said
Wow cool
Posted: Feb 26th 2009 4:04PM (Unverified) said
picked this up yesterday as it came out on the 26th here in aus, its nice to be playing halo again but it just seems like a real 'dumbed' down RTS
Only 5 chapters in though so i'll see how it goes
ps nice to see aus get something first for a change!!!
Only 5 chapters in though so i'll see how it goes
ps nice to see aus get something first for a change!!!
Posted: Feb 26th 2009 4:56PM aristokrat said
How are they going back to Harvest after the Covenant glassed it?
Posted: Feb 26th 2009 5:08PM (Unverified) said
just like a tootsie pop, the world may never know.
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Posted: Feb 27th 2009 7:28AM Birth Canal said
The game takes place way back in the beginning of the human-covenant war. "Glassing" the planet does not mean they blow up the planet. It means the surface of the planet is destroyed. Imagine hundreds of nuclear bombs blowing up across the planet and you get the idea.
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Posted: Feb 27th 2009 12:38PM aristokrat said
As I recall, at the end of Contact Harvest the Covenant begin glassing the planet, which to my knowledge means that they are circling it with their capital ships burning the ground to such a high temperature that everything burns except sand/minerals, which melt into glass. This permanently ruins the surface of the planet so that nothing is left, yet in the trailer there is clearly stuff left on the planet surface. Thus I was wondering if my recollection was correct.
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Posted: Feb 27th 2009 1:18PM Birth Canal said
The stuff that remained is probably the Forerunners left behind. The Covenant are interested in the artifacts which is why the humans are going back to find out what.
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Posted: Feb 27th 2009 1:20PM Birth Canal said
Opps. I meant to say "...what the Forerunners left behind."
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Posted: Feb 26th 2009 5:23PM chuckiej said
Finally, the return of Frankie to the small screen! Woohoo!
Posted: Feb 26th 2009 6:05PM Clatu6 said
I'm confused... Chewbacca did the audio on Halo Wars?
Posted: Feb 26th 2009 6:38PM WedgeAntilles said
Frankie! He called the life boat a pelican......... I'm disappointed......
Posted: Feb 26th 2009 9:28PM (Unverified) said
its a bumblebee not a pelican
Posted: Feb 27th 2009 11:05AM Timerider said
I always got sucked into the story of most games. Especially Halo. I read all the books and played the games, and would try to make sense of it all. I wonder if there will ever be some closure to (Halo 3 SPOILER) what happened to Master Chief at the end of Halo 3. Technically it could continue on from there about MC trying to find a way back to Earth (or other colony planet).
Posted: Feb 27th 2009 11:25AM Redeye101 said
I just have to say for the record that I am really annoyed by those stupid pop-up advertizements that appear in Joystiq's video player. I don't care if you advertise, but could you keep it off the playback, please?
Posted: Mar 1st 2009 1:48AM (Unverified) said
One word... ownage!



