Whose Side Are You On?

Metal bullets, frag grenades and missiles versus plasma bullets, plasma grenades (sticky bombs) and energy swords. Covenant versus Marines. Elites versus Spartan. Who will win? The BIG question ( okay maybe not that big because I know who'll win ). Anyway, this is just a foretaste of what's to come in the new Halo Wars game. Unlike the previous Halo games this is not a FPS (first person shooter) game. In Halo 1 and Halo 2, players would have to fight through a mass of enemies be it Covenant or Flood. Halo Wars however puts gamers in control over the troops themselves. Halo Wars is a RTS (real time strategy) game, putting players in a command mode instead of having to actually play as one of the troops themselves and getting killed by, for instance, an Elite armed with an Energy Sword.OUCH! Halo Wars would be something like C&C Generals or Starcraft. The build a big army and send them to fight another big army kinda game. The funny thing about this game is that it is supposed to be played on the Xbox 360! Yup, the 360. Too bad it is not on the PC ( sorry Ced )....or on the PS!!! ( muahahaha!! ) I had hoped that the produces got the game type wrong, not RTS but FPS. You all heard of hopeless hope right (paradoxical, I know)? Well this is just one of that hopeless hope I have about the game. The producers had initially got it right much to my disappointment. Besides that, I give a 9 out of 10 for this game.

Back to the not-so-big question. Basically, players would be playing or two factions. Covenant or Marines. The winner of this war I think would be the Marines. I mean look at the picture! 5 Spartans ( the ones with gold visors )! In Halo 1, it took just one Spartan to take out one Halo ring. Imagine 5 Spartans? The basic Marine arsenal would be the frag grenades, handguns, SMGs, battle rifles, 12 gauge shotguns, sniper rifles, and laser guided rocket launchers. Standard vehicles would be Warthogs armed with a 50 cal 3 barrel machine gun or a Gauss cannon, Scorpion tanks and Pelicans.

On the Covenants side, they've got Elites and Brutes. Elites are taller bigger and stronger than the standard marine. Brutes on the other are a bunch of overgrown mutant speaking gorillas that carry guns around. Then you have all the smaller troops such as the grunts, jackals and flying bugs. The Covenant weapons revolve around plasma laser stuff such as the Plasma pistol and the Plasma rifle. There's also Needlers (it shoots out exploding purple needles once they're stuck on you), Covenant carbine, Beam rifles and the heavier weapons Brute Shots and Carbon Rods. But of course there is the Energy Sword which I am eager to see in action. Vehicles used are Ghosts, Spectres, Wraiths and Banshees (the planes in the picture above).

Just a mental note, the stuff mentioned are all from Halo 1 and 2 which would most likely be used in Halo Wars. Who knows, maybe the guys at Ensemble Studios and Bungie decide to do something different. But anywho, the game would definitely be a 'blast'!!