This is pretty much the first RTS I've taken seriously and have completed the campaign of, so my positives are:

- Cinematics good
- Nice lore and some pretty cool characters (as far as Halo characters go)
- A feeling of experiencing a war in the Halo universe that you never really got out of the mainline games, the scale here is cool
- There are lotsa modes and trinkets to find and unlock, which can keep you occupied after you're done with the main missions. There are also two pretty good dlc campaigns, but I haven't dove into them that much, not yet, at least.

I want Isabel to materialize and let me hug her

Chegando perto do lançamento de Halo Infinite, finalmente consigo fechar todo o universo Halo, passando pelos jogos, filmes, livros e quadrinhos.
Halo Wars 2 é incrível, tem as melhores cutscenes da saga junto com a remasterização do segundo jogo da franquia e o enredo é o que deveria ter sido a farofada que foi Halo 5. Os Banidos são ótimos, já conhecia o Atriox das Hqs, mas ele é imponente demais aqui e se torna uma pedra no sapato gigante pra UNSC/Spirit of Fire.
Achei as mecânicas melhores que o primeiro, como deveriam ser, mas não tem uma diferença tão abismal em gameplay para o primeiro jogo.
Os defeitos gritantes que esse jogo possui não estão relacionado a ele em si, mas a maneira como a 343 lidou com ele no PC: o jogo só funciona em uma Build específica do Windows, que já foi descontinuada a muito tempo, ou seja, quem tem ele no gamepass não vai conseguir jogar, nem mesmo por pirat4ria ou outros métodos que não seja por nuvem.
Aliás, jogar esse jogo no xCloud foi um PARTO, de meia em meia hora o jogo desconectava ou crashava, e pra piorar, o salvamento automático é muito ruim e perder o progresso de uma hora ou mais é absurdamente frustrante, além do jogo não contar com as DLCs.
Se não for jogar, ao menos veja as cutscenes no Youtube, é incrível o tom cinematográfico que eles conseguiram atingir aqui.

Hard to say if I like the story here more than the first Halo Wars. The Banished are a hell of a lot more intriguing a villian than the Covenant were and playing as them in the flood DLC was fun and actually made me connect to them more than I thought it would. Still though, knowing these are the enemies in Halo: Infinite makes me really confused why they were introduced in this game. The overlap of people who play main-series Halo titles and ones that play this seem not that big, and risks connecting their story to a game that most people probably haven't played. Having played this before going into Infinite, it'll be interesting to see how they handle introducing the Banished for all the people that didn't play this game.

Halo Wars 2 mantém quase tudo em relação ao primeiro, se assemelhando mto mais a um pacote de missões de DLC do que de fato um jogo completamente novo.

Mesmo com uma campanha aparentemente mais curta (e expansível via DLC), ele garante o mesmo nível de diversão do primeiro, sem o impacto que ele teve quando lançou.

É uma simplicidade sem perder a complexidade que, se jogado em coop, se torna ainda mais divertido. Como de costume, só avalio o conteúdo de campanha, por não curto multiplayer competitivo.

Fora os valores de produção notáveis, conferindo atuação de voz, cutscenes e apresentação do jogo em alto nível. Roteiro também mantém a qualidade, com um elenco bacana dos dois lados, tanto protagonistas como vilões, apesar de ser algo bem longe da personalidade que jogos como Warcraft 3 possuem.

Halo Wars 2 is a serviceable console FPS that really doesn't do anything that special or different. The gameplay is a bit on the simple side, but the real draw of the game is it advancement of the Halo storyline, namely as the setup for Halo Infinite.

The game itself has ample modes and different armies, but the RTS gameplay itself is not that compelling or novel. It feels very dumbed down in a way that invokes the early days of console RTS games.

I enjoyed my time with the game, but that's almost exclusively due to the outstanding cutscenes that provide a bulk of the story in the game.

If you are looking for a deep and engaging console RTS, you would be better served looking elsewhere.

Campaign completed on Normal difficulty with all campaign logs and all skulls collected. Halo Wars 2 is a decent attempt at a console-based RTS game, but ultimately I found the control limitations to handicap the experience more than I'd have liked, This might admittedly just have been that the controls just didn't 'click' with me personally as the core mechanics of control groups, etc., are all here, but being more used to PC-based strategy games with mouse and keyboard, it remained more fiddly than I'd have liked. That aside, there's also a decent story that makes good use of the Halo IP and some interesting, varied scenarios throughout the campaign. I tend to enjoy the base-building element of RTS and in Halo Wars 2 this is, perhaps necessarily, quite simplistic, with greater focus being on unit control - this isn't my natural preference, but trying to take a more objective view, isn't in itself a failing of the game.

First Halo Wars was a squad-based RTS played very similar to popular RTSs of its time, like BFME,CoH and DoW. Considering 2000s were full of RTS like these, game's lack of unoriginality was acceptable and its okay story and great soundtrack helped me enjoying the game.

Sadly HW2 is pretty much play same as its predecessor, and yeah that means it feels like exactly playing a late 2000s RTS. They are releasing a RTS with 10 years old mechanics and demanding 40$, nice of you Microsoft.

Story is good for like for first hour. It has a very promising opening with very nice cinematics for a RTS, but rest of game's cinematics don't hold up that quality except for one.

Mission design becomes repetitive quickly. I would even say Warcraft 1994 had more interesting mission types.

1/3 of missions are pretty much like "defend your base for 20-30 mins", probably laziest and most boring mission type in the RTS genre. Oh and last mission is also a defense mission, what an amazing closure for a game.

As I said, gameplay just feels old. There is a lot of people claiming game was so good and underrated etc. but no one shows up when I ask if someone is still playing the game. Yeah, no one would play a DoW console rip-off, when you still have DoW1 and DoW2 with active playerbase.

It is a mid RTS at best and can't really recommend. Story has some nice Halo easter eggs and introduces the villains of Halo Infintie, but other than that there is really no reason to play this game.