What if it wasn't called Halo

I would consider myself almost an expert on the console RTS genre. Ive always loved strategy games, but have never had a computer so I've had to settle(warcrat2 for ps one). but thankfully as of late more and more developers are putting more and more time into porting their awesome games to consoles, but halo wars i unique in that it was made for consoles.

The accesability is nice and the game whil lacking any extraordinary visuals never slows down, (which many console counterparts often do). but there are some issues that some of the other console rts has down much better than halo. i.e. command and conquer you can group and cycle units with just a single button and acces your interface from any where on the map. you can build entire armies, and set their pathfindings all with a relatively simple learning curve.

while halo wars has an awesome story and more action-centric gameplay, it certainly lacks what truly makes a strategy game a strategy game. with a limited selection of units and structures; and almost zero base building and resource collcetion possibilities, the gameplay becomes almost shallow. Once the initial awe factor that you get to build scorpion tanks wears off, it becomes nothing more than the same race of who can build the most stuff first to attack the same identical base over and over.

so while I definetly appreciate what it is ensemble studios has done, in almost singlehandedly making the console RTS popular almost overnight, I can't help but think people would be giving this game a lesser score(such as myself) if it didn't have the halo name to it.