Halo Wars 2
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- "Know your enemy."
- — Official tagline[4]
Halo Wars 2 is a 2017 real-time strategy video game which serves as a direct sequel to Halo Wars, developed by Creative Assembly and 343 Industries and published by Microsoft Studios.[1] Set in the year 2559, the game focuses on a conflict for control of the Ark between the UNSC and the Banished. It was first revealed at Gamescom 2015 with a teaser trailer and was playable at E3 2016.[5] The game was released simultaneously on Windows 10 and Xbox One on February 21, 2017.[1]
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- "There's a sense of scale and scale that I think was maybe missing from Halo Wars."
- — Frank O'Connor[6]
Halo Wars 2 takes place 28 years after the events of Halo Wars in 2531,[6] after Phoenix-class colony ship UNSC Spirit of Fire had floated adrift in space for decades and declared by the rest of the United Nations Space Command as "lost with all hands".[7] The remaining crew of the Spirit of Fire are awoken from cryo-sleep above the Forerunners' Installation 00, previously the setting for Halo 3. Led by Captain James Cutter, the crew of Spirit of Fire encounter the mercenary faction known as the Banished, led by the cunning Jiralhanae warlord Atriox.