Kushan Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Just letting people know that the Halo Wars demo is now on the marketplace for any goldies that want to try it. Unfortunately, it's giving me an error code and not letting me download it (not sure why), but it's working for others so good luck with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BajiRav Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Just added it to my queue from xbox.com. It won't be another 10 hrs before my Xbox will boot anyway. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insomniac9 Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Thanks Kushan I'm downloading it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad. Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Cheers Kushan, totally forgot. Looking forward to playing it later on :D :D :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unto Darkness Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 It is only for Gold members though..... Silver members have to wait about a week..... DAMN! So anyone tried the demo? How is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameOverRob Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Mine is downloading atm, and either my internet or the xbox servers are going really slowly for some reason! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+John. Subscriber¹ Posted February 5, 2009 Subscriber¹ Share Posted February 5, 2009 Pretty simple game, but it's cool. I think this should maybe come out on the PC, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR3AMxCATCHER Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Will download when I get home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
what Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Downloading now. Really not expecting much from this game, but we'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayepecks Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Just put it in my queue, will get a chance to play later today. I am expecting a lot from this game given it's Ensemble, but I don't know if I'll buy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamerboy Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 i played 1 round of skirmish and thought it was pretty good. The humans seem to be a bit overpowered maybe but i haven't been able to try cov yet so we will see. Easy controls and everything seemed to be working fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kushan Posted February 5, 2009 Author Share Posted February 5, 2009 To me it really is the RTS equivelant of Halo - simple, basic mechanics, but not a bad game overall. I'll definitely pick this up at some point if I can find it on the cheap. The demo is nice and long as well, you get the tutorials and a couple of the SP missions, plus as someone mentioned above the skirmish as well, not bad at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chasethebase Reporter Posted February 5, 2009 Reporter Share Posted February 5, 2009 Yeah I would expect some decent stuff in the demo considering it's a whopping 1.3Gb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamerboy Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 only thing that could have made it better would have been a xbl MP skirmish. Most RTS games last long because of the online play and I think a taste of that would have been great for the demo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigapixels Veteran Posted February 5, 2009 Veteran Share Posted February 5, 2009 I put this in my download queue. I'll probably check it out later today. I've been looking forward to this (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayepecks Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 I played it. It's good, but I still don't care for RTS games on consoles. Kushan said it best -- it's what Halo was, but to RTS games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Hiroshi- Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Downloaded and played it, the game seems really simple, and the humans are over powered. When I played skirmish I got a voice over saying the Covenant didn't even create units, I plowed through about six units before attacking an undefended base.. all the while going .."um.. wtf?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mystic MVC Posted February 5, 2009 MVC Share Posted February 5, 2009 Just got back from class so downloading it now. Hopefully I will have time to play tonight or tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 I liked the game, probably the only console RTS I've liked so far. Sure I'd still like a mouse, but it's still good, simple and intuitive. that ad the graphics are damn good, and being a SciFi ###### and a amateur 3D artist myself, and buy it for the awesome cut scenes alone. Not only are they some of the best stuff I've seen since Blizzard made good games, but they're chock full of inspiration for my creativity nerve :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamerboy Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Downloaded and played it, the game seems really simple, and the humans are over powered. When I played skirmish I got a voice over saying the Covenant didn't even create units, I plowed through about six units before attacking an undefended base.. all the while going .."um.. wtf?" I thought at first hte humans were overpowered but after playing as the cov i thought it was about the same. I could defend a full assault of vehicles and marines with a couple brutes and honor guards. The scarab kicks ass btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hupp Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 i enjoyed the demo, i will be picking this up asap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDreamX Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 Been downloading for almost 12 hours. This is bull. I've been waiting for this game forever and now that I'm trying to get the demo, it appears Microsoft's servers have crapped out. How have you all been able to download the demo? I've been constantly checking my network connection and Xbox download status, so it's not on my end. I know the RE5 demo was much smaller, but it only took around 5 minutes to download on release day. This is really frustrating. Sorry for the ranting. I've just been waiting for so freaking long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamerboy Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 Been downloading for almost 12 hours. This is bull. I've been waiting for this game forever and now that I'm trying to get the demo, it appears Microsoft's servers have crapped out. How have you all been able to download the demo? I've been constantly checking my network connection and Xbox download status, so it's not on my end. I know the RE5 demo was much smaller, but it only took around 5 minutes to download on release day. This is really frustrating.Sorry for the ranting. I've just been waiting for so freaking long. Ya some of my friends had major problems downloading it too. They spent a few hours getting it. I must have just got it at the right time. Only took me 15 min to get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR3AMxCATCHER Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 i played 1 round of skirmish and thought it was pretty good. The humans seem to be a bit overpowered maybe but i haven't been able to try cov yet so we will see. Easy controls and everything seemed to be working fine. Humans get owned big time by the cov if they are used correctly. Yeah I would expect some decent stuff in the demo considering it's a whopping 1.3Gb. I thought it showed plenty of "decent stuff" in the demo? The graphics were amazing, how easy it was to use but at the same time how hard it is to have a good base and a good strat playing Heroic. Been downloading for almost 12 hours. This is bull. I've been waiting for this game forever and now that I'm trying to get the demo, it appears Microsoft's servers have crapped out. How have you all been able to download the demo? I've been constantly checking my network connection and Xbox download status, so it's not on my end. I know the RE5 demo was much smaller, but it only took around 5 minutes to download on release day. This is really frustrating.Sorry for the ranting. I've just been waiting for so freaking long. I downloaded it in less than 20 mins sorry to hear about that. Also I've noticed that on a few Skirmishes that I played the CPU never made a unit or very few on both Normal and Heroic mode. Anyways, game looks great and I will more than likely get the LE from my GF in a few months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kushan Posted February 6, 2009 Author Share Posted February 6, 2009 It took longer to download, for me, than it should have, but it couldn't have been more than about 20mins. Now the Killzone 2 demo, on the other hand, that was smaller and easily took 3x as long lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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