Weekly Willy Update (WWU) for the week of February 14, 2009
Most of you know today is a holiday and most if not all single people hate this holiday I myself am one of those people again this year. So to all those couples out there have a happy holiday today that is all I will say on the matter. There will be a themed Halo 3 screenshot at the bottom.
Clan News, Info, and Events…
So next week in the Weekly Willy Update, I will give some info on an upcoming contest CE United will be having. This will be our first and I hope by next week to have all the details for the contest up on our site.
Gaming News…
There is a new God of War III trailer on the internet and it looks cool as hell I can’t wait for this game.
Some Zombie news, Dead Rising 2 was confirmed this week by Capcom and there is a trailer.
Also Valve said that the Left 4 Dead DLC will be free. Here is a little info my brother (Mooretamis) dug on on the L4D
DLC…
Valve announced today that the previously announced Left 4 Dead downloadable content for Xbox 360 and PC will be free of charge. The content, dubbed Survival Pack, will include a new multiplayer game mode called Survival and two additional campaigns (Death Toll and Dead Air) playable in Versus Mode. Survival mode is said to be similar to Horde mode from Gears of War 2; players work together to fight off as many waves of enemies as they can. The
Survival Pack will be available for download this spring.
Some Halo news
One of the new mythic maps called Sandbox will have 3 different plains you can fully customize in forge, the first being the main map itself and then you can place objects on an invisible sky plain, this will make having floating objects in forge a lot easier. Also there will be a basement like crypt plain below the map, sounds like it will be
a box type level made for griffball and other cool things like that.
Also Sandbox will have things called Killballs, it sounds exactly what it is, it is a ball that will kill you. Think of it like a
deadly bubble shield that kills.
Also if people don’t know this Halo 3: ODST will ship with every single Halo 3 multiplayer map.
Finally there is another new Halo War Vidoc online and they talk about the controls on Halo Wars, for all you RTS fan NAYSAYERS out there go watch it now.
Willy’s Rant of the Week (WRotW)...
I am not going to Rant about anything this week cause I’m too tired to be angry I will give you all a good ranting next week I promise.
Willy’s Weekly Boredom Killer (WWBK)…
As I said in the Rant of the week I’m a little tired so instead of a game to kill your boredom read this Halo Wars demo review my brother (Mooretamis) wrote it’s pretty good.
Mooretamis’s 2¢
It's good.. pretty much what I expected it to be. However, it's not like a traditional RTS where you gather "minerals/money". Instead you have supply crates scattered throughout the map. This is in case your supply docks are destroyed at your base or you just run low for a short time.
The way it's setup is that the supply crates are infinite. You'll find a Forerunner "elevator" that brings them to the surface periodically. Aside from that, your base is capable of holding a number of slots, I think it start at 6 then upgrades to 8. Each slot can have a certain structure on it. For instance, you can either build a barracks, armory, supply dock, reactor, vehicle depot, or air field.
With that, you don't actually "plan out" .. or I should say, spread out your base like you would in C&C or SC. This isn't bad, but it's something different, just depends on your taste. One aspect I liked, similar to C&C games, was that you start a match off by picking a "leader". In the demo you can only select one from either human or covenant forces. The other 4 are blacked out. Each leader has a unique ability/unit that they are associated with. Something to add into the mix to make it more refreshing.
Your "population" count seems to cap off at 40, not sure if this is final or not, again this IS a demo. The humans can only have 3 Spartan-II's at a time, while I did try them out, I didn't seem all that impressed. Yes, it's an RTS, and yes they SHOULDN'T be unstoppable, perhaps it was the fact that their first upgrade takes away their SMGs for a turret o.O .. just .. bizarre. The next upgrade makes them move/shoot faster, finally followed by upgrading them with Spartan Lasers.. it just didn't seem, correct, to me that is.
Perhaps the coolest upgrade was turning all your ordinary marines into ODSTs, now that.. that's an upgrade
Not only do they become more badass, they .. well they're just more badass! Once you have ODSTs you can then do drops with them anywhere you can see on the map. It's pretty frickin' cool.
I'll wrap this up now, ultimately do I think it will be a good game? Yes. Do I think it's catered more so to people who haven't or don't play a lot of RTS? Definately. Is that bad? Not really. Will I buy it? Not likely. Rent? More than likely.
Gameplay : 4 of 5
Sound : 5 of 5
Visual : 4 of 5
Overall : 4 of 5
So if this review didn't chage your mind about Halo Wars, prove me wrong and join us and nearly the 2 million other gamers who downloaded the demo and PLAY IT.
LINKS …
New God of War III trailer
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/13/feast-your-eyes-on-the-titan-ic-new-god-of-war-iii-trailer/
Dead Rising 2 is confirm for 360 and PS3
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/09/theyre-back-capcom-announces-dead-rising-2-for-pc-360-and-ps/
Free Left 4 Dead DLC
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/11/left-4-dead-dlc-4-free/
Halo 3 map news on Sandbox
http://xbox.joystiq.com/2009/02/09/floating-sky-bubble-in-halo-3s-sandbox-will-blow-your-forging/
http://xbox.joystiq.com/2009/02/07/deadly-details-on-halo-3-sandbox-maps-killballs/
http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=17358
Halo 3: ODST comes will all Halo 3 maps
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/07/halo-3-odst-will-ship-with-all-24-of-halo-3s-multiplayer-maps/
Screenshots…
From all of us at CE United, see you next week!
-Willy-
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