Halo Wars 2 Review

38 Comments

1. I have a question: In the campaign, does it play the same as the first game? Like with firebases and stuff?

2. Simple fun and fast paced, just ideal for casual console players. Not to mention it looks awesome.

3. Deserves a higher score

4. Best console RTS ever

5. Ign is way too critical.

6. 7.8/10 too many aliens

7. Dan you got to be the most boring reviewer ever… Dull monotone voice…show some personality fella. Not hating followed you since PC gamer days.

8. Judging the controls like this guy did was hardly fair, considering he didn't seem to have really taken the time to learn what you can do with things such as control groups, the dpad, etc. The game can do a lot more than you'd think for a console game.

9. The reviewer has a point..it has no competition on the generation of consoles…which is sad because both Xbox 360 and ps3 had loads…and they were great fun too.

10. Worst review that I watched in my life
    This game is so underrated
    If I am reviewer I would give it 9/10

11. As long as skirmish against bots is available i'm sold

12. (shits on basically every aspect of the game) IGN: 7/10

13. This is just like star craft right?

14. This game came out?

15. Another game to the list of flops on xbox, Shame but i guess This is what happen when you put a Lot of services on Xbox and make people less and less buy games, especially exclusive

16. if people are complaining about this review, just remember he gave prey a 4.0, Fallout 4 a 9.2, so; yeah, he is a bad reviewer imo, he is unable to defend his reviews

17. very biased, not alot of good was mentioned. your comparing it too much to bigger titles like StarCraft etc. the game looks like a really polished version of the original. which is a good thing. more units and hero's make the game more interesting but keeps the game familiar. stop with your shity biased reviews IGN. it's old and also why most people have moved away from you. either clean up your act or be swept under the carpet but better reviews who actually give a neutral review.

18. You people are just COD fans

19. well its made by 343

20. Why is the reviewer focusing on the single player campaign? Who the hell buys an rts for the singleplayer campaign?

21. This game is excellent on pc I have it for both Xbox and my pc via the digital copy, here's my opinion I first started playing it on my Xbox one and only got about 4-5 mission in because the glitches are so bad in this game it will usually freeze my entire Xbox and require it to restart . PC however is a different story . The game is very well optimized and barely hits 20% on my cpu on the campaign, however the multiplayer is also a different story , the multiplayer will defiantly hit my cpu and gpu a lot harder and there are some glitches but I'm not sure if it's an internet connection issue. Now the gameplay , the gameplay is solid and fun but I find myself making excuses for this game because of the graphics which is very strong the game is just so damn pretty it's distracts from the actually problems with this game . Overal it is defiantly a fun game and the deluxe digital edition is very much worth it because u can play on your Xbox and pc and play the first halo wars which has been completely revamped and remastered. I love halo 2 but it's defiantly not the best game I've played this year

22. If anyone is still on the fence I too did an awesome review that others have found helpful, maybe you will too! If you have any questions feel free to ask

23. Been thinking about getting this. I had a lot of fun with the first one in 2009. Played with friends a lot and we would kill it in 3v3.

    The only issue in halo wars was the lag, anyone got 2 and can tell me how the lag is if any at all?

24. awsomme game

25. please tell me the beat/song that starts at around 1:30 !!!!!! don't say darude-sandstorm

26. Did someone teabag you when you played Halo 3? Is that why you gave this a shit review?

27. the show ad is getting on my last nerve

28. So I guess the new masterpieces are 7.0s and the shit CoD games get 9.0s? Great job IGN ?

29. when you realise the guy reviewing has never played halo before. the controls are literally themsame as halo wars 1

30. halo wars was faster to get your troops and to move around the map than halo wars 2. i hope they fix that

31. People need to realize to take this game for what it is. A VERY simplistic but FUN RTS that the xbox or PS4 for that matter never really had before. So arguably aside from maybe Command and Conquer (x360 classics) there really is nothing like it. Granted i do like Halo Wars 1 better but For what Halo Wars 2 is i rather enjoy it because as stated before there really is nothing like it that is NEW and populated. Could it be better? Yeah but it's a breath of fresh air from the typical COD, BF, sports games, and AC…. It's not really comparable to anything else on the market right now for the Xbox One because there isn't a wide variety or any sort of variety at all for the RTS genre of game.

32. 7.0? bullshit. should have got an 8. been having a blast with this game.

33. I'm think about buying this but i don't know if i should

34. the only thing good about halo wars was the cinematics

35. I would dislike but there is 9/11 dislikes so I'll leave it be

36. Microsoft exclusives really are a joke ? so glad to be part of team PlayStation

37. 0/10 IGN doesn't approve.

38. I'm not as concerned about the more 'biased' feel this has than I am about the lack of content the review has. There are zero comparisons to the original game (which scored an 8.4 I believe). I've seen worse indie games with more than 5 minute run time reviews than this on your channel. I'm not underwhelmed by the game yet, but I'm more than underwhelmed by the review.