Halo Wars Scans and info from gamepro - xbox 360 fan community

Kapow · 06-07-2008, 01:39 PM

Well, since the announcement several days ago, the subscribers of GamePro have gotten it early and what do ‘ya know, information and scans are now out all over the interweb. There are also little bits of information for the Halo Chronicles, Halo Movie, and even Halo DS. To view those, you’ll need to view the scans.

Now, since it is a 10 page special for Halo Wars, there is a helluvalot of information to post. To quietly and “legally” view the information, click full story, if you know what I mean. The scans are at the very bottom while the juicy information is right below.

Random peice of information:

Some people have been concerned about rush, well don’t panic. According to Game Pro, you’ll be able to “prepare a powerful assault in less than one minute.

UNSC Units (not all units from the game are listed in the magazine)

Marines: ARs (can upgrade to rocket or medic), Flamethrower Marines
Warthog: You can add passengers. Original has no turrets, but can upgrade to Machine Gun and Guass.
Scorpion: Well… it’s a tank (can upgrade to double barrel).
Cobra: Anit-Vehicle rockets and long range artillery.
Hornet: Light aircraft. Can add passengers.
Wolverine: Anti-Air. (Land-to-air vehicle)
Elephant: Mobile barracks (can train marines).
Cyclops: Mechanical building.
Vulture: Heavy gunship.

Covy Units (not all units from the game are listed in the magazine)

Grunts: The very definition of “cannon fodder.” Often armed with needlers. Good against low-level infantry.
Hunters: In paris with fuelrod cannons.
Banshee: Lightweight aircraft.
Jackles: Snipers and scouts.
Ghost: Effective counter to warthogs and marines, but weak against scorpion tanks.
Scarab: Enough said. MAC will kill it (MAC = Magnetic Accelorator Gun).
Elites: Roughly equivilant to spartans.

Controls

Left Bumper: Select all squads on screen (may change in final version).
Left Bumper x2: Select all squads on the map (also may change).
Left Trigger: Moves camera fast.
Directional Pad: Jump to ares off screen.
Left Stick: Move camera.
Right Trigger: Modify (like making waypoints).
Right Bumper: Cycle through groups of units in current selection (may change in final version).
A Button: Select individual squad (hold to ‘paint’).
B Button: Cancel selection.
X Button: Move/gather/primary attack.
Y Button: Secondary attack (grenades, drive over infantry).
Right Stick: Rotate/zoom camera.
Back: Objectives.
Start: Ingame menu and options.

Spartans

The famous Master Chief may or may not be in the game, but is alive durring this period.
Powerful, but not unstopable.
You have to ‘earn’ them, but it doesn’t take long.
Marines respond with oos and awws.
No shields!
They’ll be one of the coolest things in the game.

Setting

Variety of alien and human worlds. Not just Harvest.
Rings will likely be maps in multiplayer, but will NOT be incampaign.

Multiplayer

Final version of Halo Wars is expected to support up to 6 players over Xbox Live!
Online cooperative (2 players).

Other

No release date yet (assumed 2nd half of 2008)
Not on PC… ever.
Now, it’s time for what you’ve probabably all been waiting for. Below are the mega-sized scans of the newly released GamePro Magazine. Enjoy my friends, enjoy.

[Scan 1] [Scan 2] [Scan 3] [Scan 4] [Scan 5] [Scan 6] [Scan 7] [Scan 8] [Scan 9] [Scan 10]

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Rhaps☼dy · 06-07-2008, 01:44 PM

wow, nice post kapow. Can't wait for this. I'm glad it will be for the 360 but i'm definitely open for it to come out for PC later on.

attached a few in-case they get deleted for photobucket.