Video: Halo Wars demo (with the Flood!)

by Richard Mitchell { Oct 9th 2008 at 2:45PM }

A video demonstration of Halo Wars from TGS has hit GameTrailers, and we think it's fairly safe to say that the game is looking pretty good. Then again, we thought as much when we got a chance to play it at E3, so what would you expect? Nevertheless, the video showcases some things that we didn't see at E3, namely a commander unit, the Vulture "Uber Unit," and a new command ability called the Cryo Bomb which freezes enemy units, giving you extra time to destroy them.

Without a doubt though, the most intriguing part of the video happens right at the end of the demonstration, when we get our first glimpse at the Flood. We only get a general idea of how the Flood base is structured and also a brief look at the Infection Forms as well as what look like (former) human Combat Forms.

Now, if we can just get this time machine working, we can play it right now.

Tags: bungie, ensemble, ensemble-studios, halo, halo-wars, mgs, microsoft-game-studios, tgs08

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Fluffy @ Oct 9th 2008 2:55PM

Looking pretty sweet wonder if the flood will be playable?

joeybeast @ Oct 9th 2008 3:05PM

Richard,

Just detonate a couple of Cryo Bombs around you and you'll be in Spring '09 in no time.

ExMcCloud @ Oct 9th 2008 3:53PM

Thats some great looking RTS action...Lookin like I'll finally get a console RTS

Matt (DXL540) @ Oct 9th 2008 4:29PM

Has the whole Flood thing been explained?

The game is 20yrs before Halo 1, right? Up until that point the Flood were in containment on teh Halos, which weren't visited by humans until Halo 1. Or what am I missing?

Miguel Marrero @ Oct 9th 2008 10:07PM

If humans have no knowledge of the flood for Halo1... then it stands to reason that no human survives the Halo Wars storyline or the survivors never got back to human controlled space. My two cents...

AnthonyGalindoX @ Oct 9th 2008 4:38PM

More tentacles please.

RedSonRising @ Oct 9th 2008 6:09PM

im not a halo fan but i love RTS games and halo Wars might be what it takes for me to try one on a console.. it looks like theyve conquered some of the major control issues, now all i need to see is a third race (the flood) ala Starcraft to seal the deal..

hopefully theyll work out the balancing issues prelaunch, i hate it when they change hit points and build times after the fact..

Elerigo @ Oct 9th 2008 6:14PM

*Cough* Starcraft *Cough*

Covenent = Prothos, shields, no life, marines = Tarren and Flood = Zerg

ryan @ Oct 9th 2008 8:42PM

and the Brutes would be?...

ryan @ Oct 9th 2008 8:43PM

nm, they are technically considered the Covenant, but i think they should be a class all their own.

david @ Oct 10th 2008 11:15AM

Yes there are similarities, but....

Starcraft: Not much of a story.

Halo Wars: Great background story.

From what I can tell, this is going to be far better than Starcraft on every level, but that's just my opinion...

DJcube @ Oct 9th 2008 10:04PM

Looks fairly decent. Although the controls are not what I expected at all. They said that Pikmin was the main inspiration for the controls so I was expecting something more....interesting and not the simplistic "mouse with right click menu" control scheme used here (not that these controls are a bad thing, simplistic controls are great for an RTS).