There's enough fanfare in this trailer to make Michael Bay proud. Actually, make that a pre-CGI Michael Bay. Probably a film school-era Michael Bay. It has all the bombast and fanfare of a Michael Bay movie, just without all of the extremely fast intercutting and multiple explosions. We talked about Risk: Halo Wars back in January, and it's slowly but surely becoming a reality.
According to the game's website, it's due out in August 2009 -- which is right now, last time we checked the calendar. One word to the creators: give us a trailer showing some actual gameplay, and not just rotating views of the gamepieces and some concept art. Maybe you can even hire an aging celebrity to be in a commercial for the game, just like Milton Bradley did with Dark Towerback in the day.
I have a great appreciation for both consoles. I love final fantasy, and I'll have XIII on day one, but that series is enough reason why sonyboys need to stop hatin.
I don't think making a special edition of a board game is milking. These things have been going on for decades. It's actually a cool little niche for collectors like myself.
I'm just wondering if it's fair to say something is being milked when fans demand more. When and if they drive halo into the ground with awful games, and put out shovelware on every available platform, then you can say it's gone too far. Until then, milk does a body good.
i havent bought a board game in 10 years, this might bring me back to the tabletops.
id love to see Halo Wars (RTS) dlc that made risk possible. draw some lines in the sand, add turn based controls and activate skulls instead of cards for multiplayer. seems simple enough to me. then again, i cant program a vcr properly.
Is it milking when a band puts out a new album? Or a movie makes a sequel? Or tv show comes out with another season? Those things don't always equate to good product, but they are most often wanted at the time. I see nothing wrong with a game that might get some non- halo playing dads and some non-risk playing kids to the table for some good old-school hybrid war gaming. The pieces look really cool btw.
I don't think it's Hasbro... at the end of the video it says Usaopoly (probably a licensee) and a link to http://www.thestrategicconquest.com. Might help those looking for more info. Looks pretty cool to me.
