14 Facts About Halo Wars

Halo Wars is a real-time strategy video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 video game console.

Halo Wars is a real-time strategy video game developed exclusively for the Xbox 360 console, in which players command armies from a bird's-eye view of the battlefield.

Halo Wars takes place in the science fictional universe of the Halo series, during the 26th century.

Halo Wars determines that the facility is an interstellar map, and recognizes a set of coordinates that points to the human colony of Arcadia.

Computer game developer Bungie conceived Halo Wars: Combat Evolved as a real-time strategy game in which players would tactically control units and vehicles in a three-dimensional environment.

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Halo Wars was officially announced at Microsoft's X06 media briefing on September 27,2006, with a pre-rendered trailer created by Blur Studio.

Halo Wars was exhibited at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in 2007 and 2008.

Halo Wars music was composed by Stephen Rippy, the composer for all of the Age of Empires games.

Halo Wars felt that scoring for science fiction was a change of pace from his previous work, which was written for historical settings.

Four tracks from Halo Wars were included as a preview on a bonus DVD bundled with Halo Trilogy—The Complete Original Soundtracks, a December 2008 compilation of previous Halo music.

Pre-release playable demo for Halo Wars was first mentioned in the October 2007 issue of Official Xbox Magazine, and it became available for download on February 5,2009; redemption codes for early access were given starting January 29.

On release, Halo Wars reached second place on the United Kingdom weekly sales charts behind Killzone 2.

Halo Wars stated that Robot would work on balance issues, bug fixes, and other patches.

Critics were split on whether Halo Wars was a successful console translation of the RTS genre.