Yeah, baby. Ensemble Studios (the chaps behind age of empires and age of mythology) are working on an RTS based in the Halo Universe. It's set before the original Halo on the XBox, beginning just as mankind makes contact with the covenant (or the bad guys, as they're otherwise known).


There's a little more information, plus a kick-ass trailer over on Halo-Wars.com

you posted one image that leads to an html page.

They planned halo as an rts way back when, so this may actually be a really good game.


Here's to hoping.

Holy shit!  That is an awesome trailer.

I had to hook my laptop up to the TV to experience the HDness, but dope nonetheless.

I'm sure this will find it's way to the PC eventually. Halo and Halo 2 were both "exclusives" on the XBox, yet they both ended up on the PC.

No, that's the price you don't pay by choosing to save that Xbox/360 money.
 
The Halo Wars thing left me thinking Meh, because it's all CGI.. so.. it's concept art.
 
I'd be more interested in a Halo-themed Squad-based shooter, where you control three Spartans like in the novels.
 
Besides, it's really the control scheme of the console that will be the major hurdle for a RTS.
 

I hear it's going to be about a randomly selected group of Spartans tasked with taking a giant ring-world into the depths of space to place it into the fiery bowels of a star before a dark Covenant overlord reclaims his powerful ring.

Bungie is working on Halo 3 as well as working with Jackson's new studio on their new Halo game. I'm sure Bungie has their hands full. I'd be willing to bet Bungie also has plans to work on a new original IP once Halo 3 is released. The studio can't produce Halo titles forever, they'll just get sick of it.

Do people actually use the term "CGI" to mean "pre-rendered" nowadays?  Because I'm pretty sure every frame of game action on any computer or console is a "computer generated image".  Unless these new games are powered by actual tiny gnomes inside your TV dressed up as the game characters.  Or unless someone hand-drew every possible frame that could occur in the game.

I'm interested to see what the plot will be like seeing as how information gathered from all the novels (yes, I am a fanboy who has read them all) says that the humans got their asses handed to them in pretty much every engagement in which they were involved, save the odd space victory or any action the Spartans undertook. Now, it's obvious the Spartans will be included in the game and you will be wrecking much Covenenat ass with them, but regardless, world after world still fell to the Covie onslaught. Perhaps it will be a series of tactical withdrawls? I don't know. But to essentially have missions where you defeat all the enemies would be untrue to the source material.

Perhaps they will work that sense of growing desperation of losing world after world into the plot of the game.