As Halo Wars prepares to launch, I can’t help but start to feel excited about a new Halo game. The Halo franchise has always stuck with me, if I had to choose one game to compete in, I would Choose Halo 2/3…I think of Halo as “my” game. I’ve never been as good at many games as I am good at Halo. (My mom tells me I’m good)

My worst fear for Halo Wars is that it falls flat on its face trying to be and feel like a Halo game. I think Ensemble have a major challenge on their hands in this sense.

My main concerns are;

1) I was a little bit sore for a while over the fact that a company other than Bungee would be dipping their fingers in the goodness of the Halo honey jar. Over time I’ve come to just accept that they want to make money out of an established franchise.
2) Also another of my main concerns are the units…I hope to god they don’t Pull a Star Wars prequel trilogy and have units that do not make sense or just don’t fit in the Halo universe. Or have units that seem more advance than what was around in the other Halo games.
3) Most importantly to me, is the fact that if it doesn’t feel like a Halo game then, in my eyes, Ensemble has effectively wasted 2-3years of development.

I still love the Halo franchise. Although I dont spend as much time playing Halo 3 latley as I would like to. Most of you probably don’t feel as closely tied to Halo as I’ve found myself over the last few years, I hope some of you are. Either way, I’m sure you don’t want to see the Halo name run into the ground by cash-ins and spin off’s. After having an awesome trilogy of games which pretty much innovated the way we find and play games online, and also ranking systems (Thank you, Halo 2)

I guess though even if Halo Wars sucks, us Halo fans can at least push it to the side and pretend it doesn’t exist, like a Muslim father disowning his recently deflowered daughter.



At the end of the day I want Halo 4...But not now…It’s too soon. So in a way I’m very glad that at least Halo games are still coming out. At least ODST is made by Bungee, so I feel I can rest easy knowing that the game is in capable hands, and I’m actually really looking forward to ODST, It’s not Halo 4, but at least it’s something that feel’s “official” until we get Halo 4.

Thoughts. Give them to me.