Halo Wars 2 Will Have a Mode that is “a Completely New Way to Play a RTS"

During a stage event at PAX West, 343 Industries Studio Head Dan Ayoub delivered a tease on a new mode for Halo 2 that appears to be something that RTS players haven’t tried before, and that is supposed to be played in quick sessions.

[christocolus]

So when do they plan to reveal this new mode?

[KiwiViper85]

The rumoured Xbox event?

[christocolus]

That would be cool.

[Hercules189]

So X16 wasnt the big Xbox event, I know they said there was going to be an xbox event and X16 came and gone with nothing, it was more of a fan event. If they do have another one this year, i would expect some tech demos from games coming to Scorpio.

[BattleAxe]

I bet that Halo Wars 2 will allow players to play certain areas as a FPS game. If this is the case, and we get some genuine Halo FPS action in certain sequences within the game, this would definitely expand the player base.

[spicelicka]

That's definitely not it. Not that it's a bad idea, but I highly doubt that they'll just make an "fps mode" as a bonus. FPS is an entire genre, they would literally have to make 2 games and mesh them together and make sure they balance since they're completely opposite modes.

There was a game that tried it long ago on xbox/PC, i forget the name, but it wasn't great.

[TheCommentator]

The theory is sound, but when you give orders to real players they don't follow them like NPCs do. Curious what the new mode is, TBH.

[Ysmir6723]

This is by far the the least exciting strategy i have ever looked forward too.And by gameplays,i dont have any hope.

[WellyUK]

what do you expect from a console strategy game? None of them are any good once you've played RTS games on PC for years.

[Ysmir6723]

Since Age of empires 1,i have had more than 120 strategy games.This looks worse than Stormrise,which my brother had bought me to torment me with its story,voice acting and THE WORST CONTROLS ON A PC GAME EVER,and by 2009,i should have played more than 50.000 hours of rts games.

[Cweed]

"Completely new way to play RTS" last time I heard that was command and conquer 4 and that game was shit. But at least this is just one game mode it's worth taking the chance on one mode. Alsp I loved the beta and can't wait for this game.