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THIS GAME IS AWESOME!
The graphics are perfect, the zooming in ability is half-decent and the whole aspect of the game is just brilliant!
I love how you can create virtually any, and every, unit you've used in the previous 3 Halo games... Plus MORE! Upgrade your units and make them more powerful then do some major pwnage as you want it done.
Also, the skirmish mode allows players who take breaks to get back into the game before continuing the main missions.
As expected, the difficulty levels stick to their names... But to be honest, they are even more harder than you'd expect.
As I've played this (already half way through), I have noticed that controllers aren't the best for RTS' but nevertheless, much faster for the menu functions.
The circle menu (most obvious thing THERE), is more quickly accessed from the controllers, whereas the mouse on PC would have the definate speed advantage.
But onto the downsides... The enemies ALWAYS have the upper-hand by tech. Shields and stuff makes them harder to defeat so striking an enemy as quick as possible on skirmish is the key. Another downside is the main missions... You'll notice this particularly on mission 3 : Arcadia. You have to protect 3 transports that are to launch in 20 minutes... Yes, that's right... THREE. You can allow two to be destroyed (number 3 does anyways, ignore it), but one must survive.
Other than that, to be honest, the whole game is brilliant!
Character controls are quite complicated... I'll tell you more about it if you want, but to make this review a little bit smaller for until I finish the game, I will stop here. Have a good gaming day...
Oh, by the way... For those who pre-ordered Halo Wars, you should have had it arrive on 27th Feb, not 28th... A day early! :D