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Halo Wars 2

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Halo Wars 2
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Primary developer:

343 Industries[1]
Creative Assembly[1]

Support developer(s):

Sprung Studios[2]

Publisher(s):

Microsoft Studios[1]

Writer(s):

Kevin Grace

Composer(s):

Gordy Haab
Brian Lee White
Brian Trifon

Engine:

Phoenix engine

Platform(s):

Release date(s):

February 21, 2017[1]

Genre(s):

Real-time strategy[1]

Rating(s):

ESRB: Teen (T) for Mild Blood, Mild Language, Violence

 

"Know your enemy."
— Official tagline[4]

Halo Wars 2 is a 2017 real-time strategy video game which serves as a direct sequel to Halo Wars, developed by Creative Assembly and 343 Industries and published by Microsoft Studios.[1] Set in the year 2559, the game focuses on a conflict for control of the Ark between the UNSC and the Banished. It was first revealed at Gamescom 2015 with a teaser trailer and was playable at E3 2016.[5] The game was released simultaneously on Windows 10 and Xbox One on February 21, 2017.[1]

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Characters and setting[edit]

"There's a sense of scale and scale that I think was maybe missing from Halo Wars."
— Frank O'Connor[6]
Concept art of Atriox and the Banished.

Halo Wars 2 takes place 28 years after the events of Halo Wars in 2531,[6] after Phoenix-class colony ship UNSC Spirit of Fire had floated adrift in space for decades and declared by the rest of the United Nations Space Command as "lost with all hands".[7] The remaining crew of the Spirit of Fire are awoken from cryo-sleep above the Forerunners' Installation 00, previously the setting for