As Halo Wars turns 15, we look back on this bold genre-breaking experiment

15 years ago, the Halo franchise took a bold leap into the real-time strategy (RTS) genre, giving audiences a whole new perspective on a beloved franchise. Halo Wars represented a brave attempt by Microsoft Game Studios to place its world-famous setting in a brand new context: the RTS game. Until 2009, the sweeping sci-fi space opera of the Halo series had been confined purely to the first-person shooter (FPS) formula. Generally, these games offered a bleak future, where humanity was

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