Halo Wars

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a52/realsmarty/halowars.jpg

This is a knockoff of Starcraft - Captain Obvious on Halo Wars

RIP OFF! - Everyone on Halo Wars

=Halo Wars= Halo Wars (original name Star(Halo)Craft(Wars)) is a brilliant game made by award winning Game Developers Ensemble Studios. It is an RTS version of the FPS version of Star(Halo)Craft. It is also a pioneer in being the first Sci-Fi RTS game in the world and it is the most successful RTS game in the world (selling 5). The game starts out 20 years before the events of Star(Halo)Craft: Brood (Combat) War (Evolved).

Obviously-Not-A-Knock-Off-Of-Starcraft
Halo Wars is highly original and is obviously not a knock off of Starcraft. It features


 * Fast-paced, hard-hitting, tightly balanced competitive real-time strategy gameplay that recaptures and improves on the magic of the original game


 * Three completely distinct races: Terran, Protoss, Zerg.


 * New units and gameplay mechanics further distinguish each race


 * Groundbreaking single-player campaign


 * Vibrant new 3D-graphics engine with support for dazzling visual effects and massive unit and army sizes


 * Full multiplayer support, with new competitive features and matchmaking utilities available through Battle.net


 * Full map-making and scripting tools to give players incredible freedom in customizing and personalizing their gameplay experience

Humans
Marine- Most basic of Infantry Units.

 Fireba Err...I mean Hellbringer- A Marine with a Flamethrower. Known for their well known quote, "Need a light?"

Medic- An Infantry-dude that heals friendly Infantry-dudets.

Ghos - I mean Spartan - A super infantry unit that can take control of an infinite amount of enemy vehicles, call down a nuke, turn invisible, stop mechanical units from moving, change an enemy vehicle's color, and stop time with no additional cost. They are also invincible and do a base 50,000 damage. Spartans are not overpowered.

Cobra "Siege" Tank - A Heavy vehicle with the ability to go into Lockdown "Siege" Mode which makes it immobile but grants it more range and a higher attack power with splash damage.

Covenant
ZealoErr...I mean Grunt - Most basic of Covenant Units. Chances are that 1 in 3 grunts will have 1 to 5 plasma grenades in each hand.

Dragon - This unit is NOT a DRAGOON.

Light Templar - An invisible unit with a very strong sword.

Low Templar - A visible spellcasting unit that can do Lightning Storm, Double Team, and merge to an Archon.

Archon - Though it may share the same name and concept as the Archon in Starcraft, it is completely original.

Light Archon - This is not at all to be confused with StarCraft's Dark Archon because the name is different.

Vampire - An Anti-Air Aircraft used to obliterate your enemies air units with a area spell that prevents units below it from attacking.

Matt Killen - HALO WARS!!!!!!!!!!

Flood
Floodling - Tier one unit of the Flood, most prevalent in the infamous Floodling rush. They can be upgraded in speed and attack speed and are then nicknamed "Speedling" or "Crackling".

Aqualisk - a ranged-attack Flood warrior. Aqualisks were brought into the Flood swarm through the assimilation of the docile species, Mothien.

Mutisk - Air worm thing that can evolve into Protectors or Consumers.

Superlisk - a heavily armored melee attacker commonly used to "soak" up damage.

Protector - An air unit that has slow movement, but extremely long range. It does exactly 20 base damage and can only attack land units.

Consumer - Anti air unit that slows down the movement of the unit being attacked.

Tricker - A spellcasting Flood that has Illness, Dark Group, and Devour.

Dweller - A ground Flood that can only attack when it is underground. Dwellers are evolved from Aqualisks.

Synopsis
The story of Halo Wars is presented through its instruction manual, the briefings to each mission and conversations within the missions themselves, along with the use of cinematic cut scenes at key points. The game itself is split into three episodes, one for the player to command each race. In the first segment of the game, the player and Master Chief are attempting to control the colony of Harvest in the wake of the Covenant attack on other Human worlds. After the UNSC arrests Master Chief for destroying UNSC property, despite the fact that it had been infested by the Flood, the player joins Captain Cutter and the Spirit of Fire. Master Chief, who is freed by Cutter's troops, also joins and frequently accompanies the player on missions. Cutter then begins to use UNSC technology captured on Harvest to lure the Flood to UNSC installations and further his own goals. After forcing UNSC general John Forge to join him, Cutter sacrifices his own second-in-command, Ellen Anders, to ensure the destruction of the UNSC by luring the Flood to the UNSC capital Earth. Master Chief is outraged by Cutter's true aims of obtaining power at any cost and deserts, taking with him a small army of the former colonial militia of Earth. Cutter reorganises what remains of the Human population into the Human Dominion, crowning himself as emperor.

The second campaign reveals that Anders was not killed by the Flood, but rather is captured and infected in an effort to incorporate her magcial traits into the Flood gene pool. She emerges with far more magical powers and physical strength, her DNA completely altered. Meanwhile, the Covenant commander Ripa 'Moramee discovers that the Flood's cerebrates cannot be killed by conventional means, but that they can be harmed by the powers wielded by the heretical Brutes. Ripa 'Moramee allies himself with the Brute Chieftan, who assassinates one of the Flood's cerebrates in their hive clusters on G 617 g. The cerebrate's death results in its forces running amok through the Flood hives, but briefly links the minds of Brute Chieftan and the Flood Gravemind, allowing the Gravemind to learn the location of the Covenant homeworld on Orion's Arm, which it has been seeking for millennia. The Flood promptly invade and despite heavy Covenant resistance, the Gravemind is able to embed itself into the crust of the planet.

The final section of the game sees Prophet of Regret and the Covenant government branding Ripa 'Moramee a traitor and a heretic for conspiring with the Brutes. The player initially serves Prophet of truth in defending the Orion's Arm from the Flood invasion, but while on a mission to arrest Ripa 'Moramee, the player joins him instead. A Covenant civil war erupts, pitting Ripa Moramee,the Brute Chieftan, and their allies against the Covenant establishment. The brutes prove their worth when they use their energies to slay two more of the Flood cerebrates on the Orion's Arm, and the Conclave reconciles with them. Aided by Master Chief's forces—who sided with Ripa 'Moramee back on G 617 g—the Covenant break through the Gravemind's weakened defenses and destroy the Gravemind's outer shell, but take heavy casualties in the process. Ripa 'Moramee channels his own magical energies in combination with those of the brutes through the hull of his Spirit of Fire and crashes it into the Gravemind, sacrificing himself in order to destroy it.

Differences from StarCraft

 * It has worse gameplay, graphics, and storyline.

Reception
Despite harsh criticism that an RTS game would never work out on a console (especially the CrapBox 360), Halo Wars' reviews were relatively positive. Gamespot gave it a 2.2/10 and said, "This game sucks shit and should be sued by Blizzard." IGN gave Halo Wars a 1.7/10 and said, " It was what I expected, Crap." Then, Bungie decided that it screwed up their line of Star (Halo) Craft, and Wikipedia got blamed. Chuck Norris got involved and the Stock Market failed.

Addictive Disfuntion
There have been a distinct problem with the recent lifestyle known in certain cultic groups as 'halo wars' and due to this it has created a number of inconceivably disasterous effects as the addicted person begins to destroy the peaceful tranquility of what people deem as life. Symptoms of 'Halo wars' include screaming out HALO WARS to attract the opposite sex and dancing naked around a picture of master cheif.. their occultic leader.