LTN Gamers » halo wars http://ltngamers.com A place for noob to 1337 gamers to hang out Wed, 26 May 2010 04:07:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Halo Wars Sets Download Record http://ltngamers.com/02/13/halo-wars-sets-download-record/ http://ltngamers.com/02/13/halo-wars-sets-download-record/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:35:19 +0000 Jared Stenzel http://ltngamers.com/?p=85 A few days ago the Halo Wars demo was released for free on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Since its release it has become the most downloaded demo on Xbox Live to date. Within five days it had been downloaded a total of 2,000,000 times. This single day download record was no doubt in part to it’s obvious relations with the high profile Halo franchise.

This game looks like it will be successfully linking the successful first person shooter Halo with a real time strategy game. They are a completely different genres which makes me wonder how many of those 2,000,000 downloaders got what they intended?

What did you guys think of the demo? I’ve heard the interface is one of the better console interfaces for a strategy game; however it still isn’t as good as those of computer strategy games. Are you going to purchase this game for $60? Let me know what you thought of the demo and the game play.

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The Halo Wars demo just came out and it reminds me a lot of the Bioshock demo release. The download is going to take hours. I started the download so that I could possibly get to the game tonight and be able to review it for you guys, but things didn’t work out that way. I sat there for 10 minutes and it was still at. 1%.

I gave up on the download and decided it will still be there late this weekend when I finally have the time to wait for a download and when the servers won’t be so busy and the download will be managable in length. For those of you that have gotten the game, what do you think about it so far? Has it convinced you to go preorder the game, or simply buy it at launch? It’s going to take a great demo for me to buy it new, I might just borrow it from a friend.

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