Halo Wars 2009

Is it still worth playing?

You command the UNSC warship Spirit of Fire, which is trying to stop an ancient Forerunner fleet from falling into Covenant hands. It is a 2009 real time strategy game for the Xbox 360, set in 2531, twenty years before Halo: Combat Evolved. The controls were built for the controller: A selects a unit, and a double tap selects every unit of that type. There is one resource, supplies, found on the field or produced by base structures, and each map has a limited number of places to build a base. In battle, ground vehicles beat infantry, infantry beat aircraft and aircraft beat vehicles, and the UNSC and the Covenant field different units. It is still a strategy game that works from a gamepad today, and the three way counters tell you which units to bring to each fight.