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Looks good! But what is that 20 mins??? 20 mins wtf?!

P.S.

Did anyone else find FEAR 2 demo kinda shallow?

The skirmish mode can give you endless playtime, you can play on both sides. The 20 minutes thing was how long it took for me to finish the two levels, there's no limitation. I'll just remove that comment to avoid confusion.

understood, thx.

I posted this in the French section, might just aswell post it here. An explanation of the Economy in the demo:
Basically, in the demo, you build Supply buildings. These buildings sends people to find resources, which translates to money. You can also find resources on the map, which I did in the beginning of the second video.

Watch the upper right space. You have three icons:
1) "Body icon", this is how many units you have and how many units you have space for (example: 11/30)
2) "Flash icon", this is how many reactors you have built. There more reactors, the more advanced buildings you can build. For example, you have to have two reactors to build the Tank factory.
3) "Cube icon", this is how much resources you have. The more Supply buildings you have, the more "money" you get.

I bet this gets more advanced later on in the game, but this is how the demo works. When a unit dies, you just use your resources money to buy more units (like soldiers, tanks, warthogs). You can also use the money to upgrade the skills of your soldiers, like better aim and more advanced grenades.

not an RTS fan (or a halo fan tbh) but i think im gonna watch all those awesome CG cutscenes when they're inevitably uploaded to youtube.

Will be picking this up when it releases. Thanks.

The genre does not really do it for me but it does have a nice look to it...

Looks better than I expected. The music is, like with every halo game, absolutely brilliant again.

Manager/Blim ... Could you please record a skirmish match? This would be so awesome ...

I could record a skirmish match with the covenants, but that will have to wait until tomorrow.

Alright, would be pretty cool :-)

Awesome vids, and cheers for the info Manager. The game is looking better than I imagined.

I was always sceptical about playing with a controller. Do you feel comfortable using it or would you prefer mouse and keyboard?

Also I'm loving how they managed to make the warthogs behave like their FPS counterparts. :D

This looks surprisingly good. I didn't like the E3 gameplay but this seems to be much more on the action side. It really feels like a Halo game and not so much like an RTS.

Amazing! I'm really excited this turned out as well as it did. Thanks for the great information! Will definitely be hard to pass this one up.

Looks like a standard rts affair.

Story and presentation will make or break this game I assume

I've played most of the strategy games on consoles, and I must say I really like this. I can't say I've played far in them all, but so far this feels better than anything before. The unit selection is really smart, yet simple. You don't have many units in the demo though, who knows how the controls work when you have tons of units.

It's really easy to select all units, to chose between selected units (pressing triggers, it's good when you for example only want the warthogs and not foot soldiers).

Sounds promising. I definitely look forward to playing this one.

@Krilekk: That is true. I've heard them say more than once that they've made this more action orientated for the "console crowd". At which I made a snarling noise at my monitor.

But if the game is good, I'll forgive them for thinking that all console players have the attention span of a carrot and unless we kill something every 10 seconds we have a fit and throw our controllers at our TVs.

But I digress..

Funnest rts i've ever played is Herzog Zwei. Probably the simplest of them all

Ensemble "we define rts" studios. All their rts games look standard but once you play them you will realise the pure brilliance in their simplicity.

I actually fell asleep half-way through it.

Sorry I didn't do this today, I'll try to do it tomorrow. It requires some time as I probably have to "train" some before I capture it, I haven't tried the skirmish mode yet.

Im surprised, i love the physics of the warthogs and stuff, somehow it looks like an rts that might work on consoles O_o
Surprised as i said.

I think they defined them a long time ago. It's been a while since I felt that way about them.

Games like Company of Heroes define it now

I'm still getting it, but I can't say that these demos got my blood flowing.

End War has sort of ruined most overhead RTS' for me anyway. I just don't find this standard formula as entertaining as a once did. And I really used to love the Empire campaigns. I thought Ensemble would try to bring at least a few fresh elements to Halo Wars.

I know it's the Halo universe and that is always exciting but honestly we've played this game before.

It really all depends on how the game's controls play out at this point. Alot has been made of Halo Wars' control scheme. I can at least hope that it's smooth and easy to get into.

Don't misunderstand me, I'm just as upset as everyone else that Ensemble is being shut down. But they didn't bother to change anything. They just stuck with the same ole formula.

thankssss for sharing.........