Halo wars should have been so much more, the game I just bought/beat has to be one of the worst games I have ever played. Sure it controls fine and even kinda looks nice but there are so many issues that (for more than 60% of the game) I felt like I was playing some crappy budget title, the sound design sucks, the graphics are boring to look at and way to simple ( and im not just talking about the combat).

The one thing halo wars did was it had a good story, but Im not talking game story im talking the drama that happened with Ensemble, as I finshied the game it became clear that bad things were happening and that I was suppose to feel sad but instead of feeling sad or even careing about what was happening on my screen I began thinking of Ensemble and how this will be there last game...and since I absoutly loved there Age of Empires seris how much that sucked..and that there last game was this broken shitty mess. Also, the other thing that comes with the closer of Ensemble is that we will never see any patches, expantions, new maps or anything..you will load up Halo Wars in 10 years and it will be the exact same...which reallly sucks because not only is the campaign short, but there are a ton of bugs and Frame Rate issues making it even more of a chore to play.

Even if you look at the footage showen in 2007 of Halo wars  ( http://www.gametrailers.com/player/24125.html ) and compare it to the recent footage ... it almost looks like they tried to whipe the board clean midway in devlopment and try for a new look, but got about Half Way when they were told about being closed down etc. and just stoped careing...thats what Halo Wars feels like, lack of polish and like no one gave a shit.

Don't get me wrong Im not just saying all this crap to start a flame war or bash halo, I own a 360 and love the halo seris and am a big RTS fan, but Halo Wars is just Garbage...and dosnt deserve any of the high scores its been getting, its complete garbage. What makes all this even worse is the fact that this game got basically the same review scores as Dawn of War 2, which is by no means perfect but is deffinatly not as broken as this. 



So there you have it, my first blog and my first true disapointment that i have experianced in a long time.






TL;DR : Halo wars should have been alot more.