What's next for Halo?
Battlefield Bad Company – Xbox 360, PS3Built from the ground-up for next-generation consoles using Digital Illusions’ bleeding-edge Frostbite game engine, Battlefield: Bad Company will drop gamers behind enemy lines with a squad of renegade soldiers who risk it all on a personal quest for gold and revenge.
We can expect a cinematic single-player experience loaded with adventure and dark humor. We can also look forward to a sandbox environment in a universe where nearly everything is destructible.
Battlefield: Bad Company will also feature a full suite of the franchise’s trademark multiplayer options with deep gameplay modes designed to take full advantage of the game’s massively destructible environments.
EA also has the great looking Army of Two coming out in 2008, a title which they say will revolutionise squad based tactics (yawn). At this stage It's hard to tell which of their shooters will receive the highest praise. I'm sticking with Battlefield.
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Halo fans are chomping at the bit to get hold off this strategy game based on the legendary Halo universe. Players will command armies of familiar and new UNSC units in its initial encounters against the Covenant, an alien coalition threatening to obliterate mankind. Halo Wars will immerse gamers in an early period of the storied Halo universe, allowing them to experience events leading up to the first Halo title for Xbox.
Created from the ground up for the Xbox 360, Halo Wars is being developed by the veteran real-time strategy developer Ensemble Studios, the team responsible for the best-selling and critically acclaimed Age of Empires franchise on the PC.
Halo fans are wetting their pants for this game, others may look elsewhere for their RTS fix.
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