Hands up over here!Now it’s 2016, many years have passed since the original, multiple traditional Halo games have come and gone, the original Halo Wars development company Ensemble Studios is no more and any gamers who longed for some lounge-based strategy now have more options through the new Steam boxes, Steam Link and Steam Pad (along with, of course, a PC somewhere in the house). Yet there was an itch which was never truly scratched for all those people who grew up with the likes of Red Alert and Total Annihilation but had slowly migrated from the computer desk to the lounge sofa as they got older. Halo Wars was unique in its ability to bring the world of a popular first person shooter and repurpose everything found within into a solid, fun, tactical Command and Conquer style experience. Way back in 2009, Halo Wars seized on a glaring gap in the console market with a real- time strategy game that not only had wonderfully mapped gamepad controls but expanded on the Halo franchise, providing a slower paced feed of universe-building information.
