Halo Wars

[Bren]

anyone got it yet?

i would have bought it but i have £20 :@:@

[Jam]

Mates got it but he's just been playing the Mythic Map pack instead.

[Bren]

lmao thats all i would be doing :P I may just wait for the map pack to come instead of buying the LE now.

[Jordy]

Mythic maps are okay, I'm personally not too keen, I like huge spacious maps like Avalanche, Valhalla and Sandtrap but sadly none of these are.

All three of them resemble mazes and confusing environments, you may think I'm saying that just cause they're new but they really are quite confusing, they're all so symmetrical and full of walls. None of them have anything in the way of fun or distinctive features, some fairly easy achievements to be had though.

Sandbox, it's okay, couple of vehicles and a few bits which remind you of a miniature Sandtrap but not really good for anything (Forge maybe?)

Orbital - Just mad, walls everywhere and long hallways, very little skill is required to play this map, it's mostly just luck and having to walk around a hell of a lot to find anyone to kill.

Assembly - Almost too spacious yet tiny at the same time, as soon as you can spawn you can kill people infront of you so this map yet again requires little skill and you just tend to run around, killing and dying.

Oh and Halo Wars? Yeah just like you'd expect if you've played the demo, it's all the same stuff just more of it and a Multiplayer. I like the Multiplayer it's pretty good it's just annoying that they can go on sometime (To be expected with RTS's) and that there's lots of AI around, namely The Guardians and Flood. You're doing a 2V2 match yet the Flood will just join in and attack you both, why?!

I haven't got into the Storyline much myself yet but my friend has spent about 3-4 hours on it and seems to be on mission 9 out of 14 with out too much trouble. Could possibly be something to do with the 'Easy' difficulty but they still don't seem the typical lengthy missions you got on the three previous Halo games.