Halo Wars 2

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User Score
6.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 157 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 82 out of 157
  2. Mixed: 26 out of 157
  3. Negative: 49 out of 157
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  1. Micky350
    Feb 19, 2017
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I'll cut right to the chase.
    Campaign: Bad- About a 6 hour campaign, terrible unit introduction, controls are brutal, next to no micromanaging ( I'm use to starcraft 2) and the key bindings are confusing, bonus objectives aren't obvious, I had to constantly keep opening the objective menu ( which I had to look up control to figure out how to even bring up).

    Game UI- This game is a mess, to talk to someone who isn't in my game I had to launch the xbox app and talk through that, some settings bring you to a browser, others to the store.. all in all to run this game you have 4 apps running ( xbox app, web browser, store app and the game) seems a bit much.

    Online- Basically what they've done is found that games like clash royale make a ton of money buy getting people to pay money for card packs to create a better higher level deck. Literally the same concept just with halo units. Just another micro transaction money pit.

    TLDR:
    If you liked halo wars one you'll like this but I would wait until it hits the    … Expand
  2. kagehyo6
    Jul 30, 2017
    2
    UPDATE 7/30/2017:

    Balance changes made this game one of the most poorly-balanced RTS games I've ever played. - An entire army of anti-vehicle infantry cannot take down an army of tanks or wraiths - Bases have very little health, making the 'rush' tactic highly viable compared to other RTS games - A full army of level 3 (max level) infantry can be wiped out in seconds by a leader    UPDATE 7/30/2017:

    Balance changes made this game one of the most poorly-balanced RTS games I've ever played.
    - An entire army of anti-vehicle infantry cannot take down an army of tanks or wraiths
    - Bases have very little health, making the 'rush' tactic highly viable compared to other RTS games
    - A full army of level 3 (max level) infantry can be wiped out in seconds by a leader power such as glassing beam
    - The maps are bland. It makes very little difference which map you choose because they are all so similar. The first Halo Wars had a special uniqueness to each map... these maps become very boring very quickly.
    - A defensive strategy with base turrets and a fair-sized army will almost always lose to a rush. Turrets are nearly worthless until they may be leveled.

    There's so much more I could say but these are a few examples. I've played this for over 80 hours because I really wanted to like this game as much as I did the first one, but I just can't. It feels like they tried too hard to cash in on the success of StarCraft by making a Halo clone of it. But this game isn't StarCraft, it feels like a very poorly done clone.

    Many of the bugs and glitches are fixed now and the game seems to be running much smoother and I haven't had a crash since the latest patch. Also, having multiple leaders to choose from keeps the game fresh for a while. This could be a really fun game if the maps felt as unique as the first game and if they made a few balance changes to support certain unit roles and offer alternative strategies other than favoring the 'rush' strategy the most.

    The game was fun during the pre-release, then they patched it and now its broken.

    Day 1 Patch:
    Horrible framerates
    long load screens
    black screen crashes
    units won't listen when you tell them to do something
    units will continue to chase enemies for long distances rather than staying put

    Patch update 3/7/17:
    Fixed a lot of framerate issues and crashes but introduced new problems...
    Units still won't listen at times
    Units will still chase enemies halfway across the stage even when you don't ask them to
    Units will randomly disappear off the map but still show up in your 'all units' selection. I lost 57 units off the map during a fight against legendary AI. Couldn't summon them, couldn't teleport them... the showed up as selectable units but were nowhere on the map... making my cap army size pathetic, insuring my loss.

    So far, every game I've ever preordered in the last 2 years has been a huge let-down with broken gameplay. I was hoping this would be different... but it is worse than most.    … Expand
  3. Trankos2077
    Jun 13, 2019
    0
    Que porquería de juego ni siquiera lo pude jugar porque me obligaba a cambiarme a windows 10 un so que no me gusta no, es basura eh jugado juegos con mejores gráficos que no me pedían tanta basura.
  4. Xaphnir
    Mar 15, 2020
    0
    I'd love to be able to review the game itself, but the Microsoft Store does not recognize any devices that can download the game (and yes I did make sure my computer is a device connected to my account). So, entirely non functional product, therefore I must give it a zero.
  5. Steyraus
    Aug 2, 2020
    4
    Beyond generic rts, the games I was playing in the 90 were more interesting and had more charm than this. And what is up with Isabele. Halo gave us one of the most interesting sexy and bad arse Ai female characters in gaming ever and This game followers her up with Isabelle, a borked out, little boy looking female AI , with about as much likability as a cold wet rag in winter. Serious youBeyond generic rts, the games I was playing in the 90 were more interesting and had more charm than this. And what is up with Isabele. Halo gave us one of the most interesting sexy and bad arse Ai female characters in gaming ever and This game followers her up with Isabelle, a borked out, little boy looking female AI , with about as much likability as a cold wet rag in winter. Serious you want me to look at that the whole Champaign,.
    Game play is exactly what you would expect just not fun and the whole story side is just generic aswell.    … Expand
  6. GameJoin
    Mar 18, 2019
    3
    If you're into classic RTS games, then DON'T buy this. Oversimplified, clearly adapted to console, extremely casual. Combine this with no strategic depth and you get this...
  7. Lexoww
    Apr 15, 2023
    0
    Most unbalanced RTS I ever played! The different fractions arent balanced at all, Invisiblity is insanly unbalanced!

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70

Mixed or average reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 21
  3. Negative: 1 out of 21
  1. PC PowerPlay
    Jun 8, 2017
    40
    Look, there is nothing wrong with Halo Wars 2... as a bonus game that comes free with Halo 6 or whatever. But as a premium, full-priced title? No. No, we deserve more than this. A franchise like Halo, with its rich fictional universe, its cool unit design, its super-clear mix of human and alien factions, deserves more than this.
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  2. CD-Action
    Apr 5, 2017
    75
    Creative Assembly did their best to make Halo Wars 2 accessible without dumbing it down too much, but as it’s a console game at heart, some simplification to the RTS formula was inevitable. Apart from that the PC version is more than decent, as it features a different UI and the game’s pace was tweaked. Besides the single player campaign (13 really good missions) it offers a multiplayer mode, which unfortunately is tainted by a pay-to-win factor. [04/2017, p.70]
  3. Ragequit.gr
    Mar 27, 2017
    75
    Halo Wars 2 is a decent title for newcomers to the RTS genre, who will be the ones that will mostly enjoy the game, especially in the innovative and fast-paced Blitz mode.
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