There are few development teams on the planet with more real-time strategy chops than Creative Assembly. You might k**w the studio best for its 2014 survival horror game Alien: Isolation, but this is also the team behind the long-running Total War strategy ******.
Where Total War features a cast of thousands and an emphasis on historically authentic warfare, Halo Wars 2 pits the ragtag crew of a single battleship against an alien threat. With smaller armies and a "space marines vs. aliens" sci-fi bent, the new game feels about as far from Total War as you can get. Read more...