However, Anders manages to escape by using her stasis prison as a translocation device. The Arbiter uses Anders to activate the Apex (a Forerunner installation), revealing a fleet of Forerunner warships, which the Covenant plans to incorporate into their existing fleet. Forge and Anders begin to study the area, but suddenly the Arbiter arrives, taking Anders prisoner and wounding Forge Spartans arrive, but too late to save Anders. Once the back-up arrives, they move in to find out why the Covenant came to Arcadia. After they've evacuated, they withdraw to a safer position while waiting for back-up by Spartan Group Omega. Forge and his forces are deployed to assist the Spartans from Red Team, in an effort to evacuate the civilians from Arcadia City. All Units!įollowing the Covenant to Arcadia, they find that most of the orbital defence ships have been destroyed or damaged in battle with the Covenant. However, the information Anders gathered from the relic shows that the Covenant has been pointed to a second UNSC colony, Arcadia. The Covenant makes a counter-attack, forcing the UNSC to retreat. Forge then leads an attack on a relic site that the Covenant has occupied, eventually removing any remaining Covenant, and making it possible for Anders to examine the relic briefly. Rounding up the survivors, Forge leads them in an assault to remove the covenant presence and re-establish Alpha Base. While Sergeant forge is patrolling the northern regions, Alpha Base is attacked and destroyed by the Covenant, with survivors fleeing to the countryside surrounding the area. Serina, Professor Ellen Anders, Sergeant John Forge and the Spirit of Fire's commander, Captain Cutter. Other key characters in Halo Wars include the A.I. The Flood is significant in the storyline and several massive Forerunner structures are also explored.Īlthough the Master Chief doesn't make any appearance in Halo Wars, several other SPARTANs do, these are referred to as Red Team.
The story begins with the UNSC's early battles on Harvest, but also features another colony world, Arcadia, which holds something of great interest to the Covenant. Halo Wars is set in 2531, giving it the earliest setting of the Halo game series, and focuses on the Marine forces of the UNSC ship CFV-88 Spirit of Fire as they engage Covenant ground forces after the discovery of an ancient artifact during a journey to Harvest. The game's story is told through in-game cut scenes, and in-game moments like games in the series. Plot Bring incredible firepower to bear on your enemies Two downloadable content packs were released for the game by Robot Studios, which handled post release support of the game, until March 2010 when the newly formed 343 Industries took over all support. Shortly after the release of the game, the news broke that Microsoft Studios was shutting down Ensemble Studios. Ensemble Studios also took extra care of the game's controls to ensure that the often-complex actions of an RTS are easy to deal with on the Xbox 360 controller. Some of the specific graphical touches in the game, like getting a scoreboard at the end of each game, the menu system, basic UI and the style of multiplayer lobbies are evocative of other games in the series. During the development, Ensemble Studios stayed in contact with Bungie, creators of the Halo series, to ensure the game retained the proper look and feel. The game was developed by Ensemble Studios, best known for their work on the Age of Empires series, and is an Xbox 360 exclusive.
It begins in year 2531, twenty years prior to the events of Halo: Combat Evolved, and documents the Covenant eradication of the Outer Colonies during the Human-Covenant War. Halo Wars is a real-time strategy game set in the Halo Universe.
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