#Halo wars 2 upgrade#
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You highlight units with a reticule then tap a button to select them, or tap and hold to select units in a radius.

#Halo wars 2 upgrade#

Build queues and skill trees are streamlined but effective, and handy tool tips make it clear what purpose an upgrade or a new facility has.Ĭontrolling your troops won’t be a challenge. What resource-gathering there is happens automatically, requiring very little effort bar the odd sojourn to grab some supplies or energy if you spot them lying around.

#Halo wars 2 plus#

Bases are modular, with ready-made slots to add resource-gathering and troop training facilities plus the usual vehicle and aircraft manufacturing centres. Despite a few quibbles – more lifelike trees might have been nice – this is easily one of the best-looking RTS games on any system, though given the lack of progress in the genre recently that’s not saying all that much.īut if the Halo stuff is good, what about the RTS stuff? Well, Halo Wars 2 does a fine job of simplifying the action for console users without rendering it entirely brainless. Your troops might not have the close-up detail of their Halo 5 equivalents, but they’re beautifully animated and the scenery cleverly remixes all your favourite locales from the entire Halo saga. The visuals don’t lack attention to detail either.

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Units and abilities either come straight from the series or fit in so well you’d swear they’d always been there. If you’re looking for the sense that you’re fighting climactic battles straight from the Halo playbook, only from the perspective of a commander controlling units from the sky, it has you covered. The spirit of Halo can be found in the battlefield chatter of gung-ho marines and cowardly grunts, the super-powered fighting abilities of your Spartan heroes and the hyper-intelligent but weirdly vulnerable AIs.

You can feel it in the music and the front-end menus, the lengthy cut-scenes and the near-constant referencing of background lore. If there’s one thing Halo Wars 2 gets emphatically right it’s the Halo content. Cutter and his UNSC forces, abetted by the last surviving AI on the Ark, are all that stand in his way. Having wiped out human research bases on the Ark he now has plans to open up its secrets and use its terrible powers to wreak vengeance on, well, just about everyone who isn’t Banished. Atriox and his chums have taken over The Ark, an ancient Forerunner artificial world and the birthplace of the titular rings of the Halo series. Set eighteen years on from the original Halo Wars, the sequel pits Captain James Cutter and the crew of The Spirit of Fire against a renegade Covenant faction, the Banished, led by a particularly savage Brute named Atriox.

The RTS has always been a challenging genre for console, and Halo Wars 2 doesn’t entirely escape the usual problems, but if you’re itching for a more tactical experience of the Halo universe, this one’s mostly a success. Together 343 Industries and Creative Assembly have crafted a game that owes more than a little to StarCraft II but that captures a lot of what’s special about Halo. It’s the Halo sequel not many fans asked for, but that doesn’t mean that Halo Wars 2 isn’t any good.