Halo Wars

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Halo Wars is a Real-time Strategy announced as an Xbox 360 exclusive. "Halo Wars" is collaboratively designed by Ensemble Studios and Bungie Studios. Announced during Microsoft's X06 media briefing on September 27, 2006, details of the game first appeared on 1UP.com. A pre-rendered trailer for the game was shown at X06. The trailer can be downloaded from the official website or from the Xbox 360 Marketplace. It has been announced that a live demo for Halo Wars will be shown at E3 2007.

Confirmed Elements

The following are known elements within the game that have been shown in concept art and pre-rendered trailers for Halo Wars.

UNSC

Infantry
- Spartan Group Omega
- UNSC Marine Corps
- Possibly a crewman as seen the concept art.
Weapons
- Battle Rifle wielded by Spartan Group Omega and UNSC Marines.
- Shotgun as seen in Concept Art.
- M6C Magnum wielded by Spartan Group Omega.
- Sniper Rifle as seen in Concept Art.
Vehicles
- Warthog
- Warthog transport
- Scorpion Tank
- Pelican
- Shortsword
- Sparrowhawk
- Unidentified UNSC dropship (possibly an Albatross)
- Unidentified UNSC tank

Covenant

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The Elites as depicted in Halo Wars.

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Concept art for the Elite.

Infantry
- Covenant Elite
- Covenant Hunter
- Covenant Grunt
Weapons
- Fuel Rod Cannon as seen in Concept Art wielded by a hunter.
- Energy Sword as seen wielded by a elite in the trailer and Concept Art.
Vehicles
- Banshee
- Scarab
- Ghost
- Shadow
- Wraith

Achievements

Nothing is known about the Halo Wars achievements yet.

Trivia

Halo Wars may possibly have been first hinted at in the art book that came with the collector's edition of Age of Empires 3. The last page of the art book showed images from five different Age of Empires games, including the three titles that had already been released. Two images represented unreleased games, including a hypothetical Age of Empires 4 (depicting a World War 2 or Vietnam War-era soldier) and Age of Empires 5, depicting a distinctly science-fiction character design. This may have been intended to represent Master Chief from the Halo universe.
Halo Wars takes place before Halo CE, and so weapons available afterwards in the timeline (such as the Battle Rifle) are (theoretically) unavailable.
In the Halo Wars trailer, if you look closely at the Elite that killed the Marine with the Energy Sword, you'll see that it had 5 fingers, not 4.

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