So, Joystiq put up an article summing up
its impressions of Halo Wars. Sure, there are a lot of gameplay details to glean from the article, and Ensemble Studios explains why there are vehicles in
Halo Wars that aren't in any of the
Halo games. There are lots of things you can learn in the article, but there is one
glaring thing that stands out like
Cliff Bleszinski in a rainbow clown wig: the Flood is
not playable. Again,
the Flood is not playable in Halo Wars.It's a sad reality, and one we're not willing to accept. Already, we're contorting Ensemble's promise of future DLC to mean that maybe, just
maybe the Flood will be added in the future. If not, well, there's always
Halo Wars 2.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
StLouisRibs7734 @ Oct 13th 2008 4:18PM
They announced this already...
Kevin Gass @ Oct 13th 2008 4:24PM
"Already, we're contorting Ensemble's promise of future DLC to mean that maybe, just maybe the Flood will be added in the future. If not, well, there's always Halo Wars 2."
you mean the Ensemble that went out of business?shut down or w/e
john paul @ Oct 13th 2008 4:41PM
Microsoft created a separate team for future Halo Wars projects.
UNSCleric @ Oct 13th 2008 4:24PM
This is good news.
LOSE @ Oct 13th 2008 5:04PM
F@#$@$! BULL!@#$
I HATE RTS's THAT ONLY HAVE 2 RACES. YOU NEED VARIETY, wow, let me pick... humans or elites... that means all the good players are going to have the same strategy...
Take a look at LORD OF THE RINGS: Battle for middle earth II (BY FAR THE BEST CONSOLE RTS EVER!). It has over 5 races to choose from and all are different. All races have disadvantages and advantages. I think it's bull that HALO WARS WILL ONLY HAVE 2 RACES. Everyone will go straight for the best upgrade in each class which doesn't give the game STYLE or FINESE or VARIETY or SKILL.
They better have BRUTES as a 3rd race or the game will plain SUCK...
BULL@!#% F$#!
Capgun @ Oct 13th 2008 7:56PM
This is directed at LOSE.
It's not between Humans and Elites. It's between Humans and COVENANT. You forget, this is 20 years prior to HALO, the Elites havent split from the covenant yet.
And on the same point, there wouldnt be a 3rd race of brutes BECAUSE THEY ARE PART OF THE COVENANT
SugarDaddy @ Oct 14th 2008 9:42AM
Word. Who wants to play the flood anyway? They are not interesting at all from a player perspective. Their strategy is incredibly simple and boring.
That being said, if you want an RTS with 3 races, get Starcraft 2. It looks fantastic.
ryan @ Oct 14th 2008 10:55AM
actually this game will have 3 races playable from the start, but StarCraft 2 won't. just the humans. the other races are expansion packs. believe it. :/
J @ Oct 13th 2008 4:25PM
That would have been cool... especially if one of their abilities was to "floodify" an opposing team's forces and turn them against that team.
Momer @ Oct 13th 2008 4:34PM
That's why it wouldn't make sense. They're parasites, they wouldn't function like other factions in RTS games.
UNSCleric @ Oct 13th 2008 4:29PM
The Flood shouldn't be in Halo Wars to begin with.
joeybeast @ Oct 13th 2008 4:34PM
How's the Flood gonna work?
All you gonna have will be a flood of Flood and charge at the enemy?
Not much of gameplay.
Think the end of Halo3.
One Warthog can zip through hundreds of them.
bioadam @ Oct 13th 2008 4:43PM
joyebeast is right, all the Flood would be good for are Soviet World War II era swarm tactics; i.e. select all units, attack, click on enemy unit. The only difference being that the Soviets sent swarms of real peoples to their deaths.
ryan @ Oct 13th 2008 4:46PM
they really should have left the flood out of the game and focused it more on the Covenant. keep the brutes out as well. y'know keep it within the timeline?
Richard Mitchell @ Oct 13th 2008 5:03PM
Actually, the Brutes were the first members of the Covenant to make actual contact with the human race.
It's covered in the books.
LOSE @ Oct 13th 2008 5:04PM
HUSH LITTLE BOY!
ryan @ Oct 13th 2008 5:28PM
ah, then well, keep the brutes in by all means. i don't think the flood needs to be included necessarily tho.
UNSCleric @ Oct 13th 2008 5:01PM
The Brutes were actually the first Covenant to ever step foot on Harvest.
ExMcCloud @ Oct 13th 2008 5:06PM
Man WTF...Alright maybe I don't care so much but w/e I'm still buying it...
Steven M @ Oct 13th 2008 5:43PM
Overall i think its a good idea to not play as the flood
Aero @ Oct 13th 2008 6:06PM
The flood don't really have vehicles so all you would do is command a group of infection forms until you gather vehicles and stuff.
Which seems a bit boring to me.
Clinton RRoD sept.3 @ Oct 13th 2008 10:04PM
sorry to say this is like 3 days old
chase @ Oct 14th 2008 9:56AM
maybe thy could have a small forerunners colony that was left behind there. 3 fashions then, but thy all die.
gnipgnop @ Oct 14th 2008 11:07AM
ZERG!
loopy @ Nov 6th 2008 5:23PM
Honestly I beleive that the Flood would be a great race to be playable and would add variety. Sure the current known strategy is just swarming the enemy, but their is always room for creating new never before seen units and tactics that the first person games never showed. While at it why not create a completley new Halo race even if it clashes with the story. I beleive every RTS should have at least 4 teams.