Today's the day! We get to find out how the Halo Universe is pulled from its first-person shooter roots and put into a real-time strategy game.
Warning! The demo is a LARGE download, 1.4GB to be exact. Make sure you have enough room on your Xbox 360 for it!
Halo Wars was created from the ground up for the Xbox 360 console and controller and combines a peerless control scheme and gameplay with an incredibly rich, epic story set 20 years prior to the story told in Halo: Combat Evolved.
Demo Details
The demo for Halo Wars will land on Marketplace on February 5 at 2:00 A.M. Pacific Time for Gold members. Silver members will have to wait a week, February 12, to get their hands on the demo.
Users will be able to explore Ensemble's groundbreaking control scheme in optional beginner and advanced tutorials, or jump right into the action to experience the beginning of the Halo Wars story with the first two campaign missions.
The demo also includes Chasms, one of the Halo Wars 14 multiplayer maps, where you can battle it out in Skirmish mode vs. A.I. Play as either the UNSC with Captain Cutter's leader powers, or as the Covenant with the Prophet of Regret's own unique abilities.
In addition to the launch of the “Halo Wars” demo on Xbox LIVE today, Microsoft Game Studios invites fans to experience the action and take a closer look at the strategies and decisions that lie ahead, in the riveting new “Call to Battle: ‘Halo Wars’ Trailer.”
Featuring exciting new battle sequences between the UNSC and Covenant, weaved in with scenes from the beautiful in-game cinematics, the trailer showcases what fans can expect when they take command in “Halo Wars,” the action strategy game developed exclusively for Xbox 360. This new trailer is available for download on Xbox LIVE and Xbox.com/Halo.