Halo Wars Is... Different.
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Published 2024-05-23
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All Comments (21)
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3:20 "Captain's report: February 4th, 2531. Five years - five long years. That's how long it took us to get Harvest back. At first it was going well. Then setback after setback... Loss after loss... Made what was going to be a quick and decisive win... Into five years of hell. Of course, that's all Harvest really is today... It's Hell down there, but now it's ours again.
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If it feels more haunting and sad than the mainline games, it’s because like in Reach and ODST, we were fighting a losing war in Halo Wars. Humanity has always been losing, losing HARD, and the mainline games don’t feel as desperate because the Master Chief always wins. But the Halo Wars opening cinematic tells the tale of the campaign of Harvest, which should’ve been a quick and decisive win but turned into « five years of hell »
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7:15 "Why don't we put the lady down and talk about this, man to freak?” "As you wish."
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I can’t speak for hw2, but I’d say halo wars was very much a successful spinoff. it kept the feel of halo while telling its own story with its own characters and managed to carry that into its soundtrack. a great little console rts for those of us who liked that genre.
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Insignificantia (All Sloppy/No Joe) plays during the credits
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14:45 "Sir, it's already overheating. I'll have to separate the core and align them manually when they need to blow." "Son, I've a feeling before this is over, we'll need every last Spartan in the fight. I can do this. Report back to the ship." "Good luck, sir. It's been an honor."
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I love how the Halo Wars soundtrack clearly connects to the mainline games', but still has a unique feel that sets it apart. This easily makes it feel like a new story in the same universe.
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12:40 Burning sunshine is a colloquialism meaning to waste time. Most people get things done during the day & have to stop when the sun goes down so if you waste time your burning through the amount of sunshine you have to do things. It plays during a cutscene where they’re setting up a reactor to blow & opens with Sgt. Forge saying "Gentlemen, we're burning sunshine here!" He’s basically telling them to hurry up.
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The reason some of the tracks are called that way are because they’re inside jokes by the developers at Ensumble studios (the developers who made Halo Wars) RIP to them, this was their last game before they got killed off by Microsoft
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Would have liked to seen Action Figure Hands in here.
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It’s a halo game about a tacticians POV of the worst situation they could find themselves in, completely alone and outnumbered on a newly discovered mega structure so far away from home you see the Milky way galaxy in the sky
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Stephen Rippy is an amazing composer! Love his work, and he did a fantastic job with Halo Wars - he truly had some massive shoes to fill, but he always delivers
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Stephen Rippy IMO is the only composer/arranger that has been able to compose his own music that sounds like Halo even without using any motifs composed by Marty and Michael. He uses some motifs in a few arrangements, and in those cases it's still better than what I've heard from other composers and quite original. Definitely a composer who respected the style and is able to be flexible to fit in. I think the composers in newer Halo games don't care to fit in or it wasn't in their style range.
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Absolutely incredible soundtrack by Stephen Rippy. He was the composer to Age of Empires and Age of Mythology, hence the incredible variety of music. Halo Wars is one of my fav Halo games, and the cutscenes were incredible. Glad you choose this
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The farther into the games you go, the more atmospheric the music gets, and the fewer themes you'll hear.
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I would highly suggest watching one of the Halo Wars "movies" on YouTube where it is all the cinimatics stitched together. The music hits so much harder eith the visuals. Probably my absolute favorite parts are the opening and the emergence of the Spirit into the interior of the shield world. Gives me goosebumps just about every time.
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Halo wars always reminded me of halo 2 soundtrack wise, where there is that "groovy" element very strongly up front. Halo wars mixes it with traditional orchestra, where halo 2 goes in a more rockish direction.
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May not be Marty O'Donnell, but it still feels like Halo, don't know how they nailed that opening theme so well I love all the classic FPS Halo games, but Halo Wars (1&2) has a special place in my hard drive and I always end up playing it again.
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Don’t know how many hours I put into halo wars as a kid, but it was a lot. Good times
