While the story that strings everything together is very easy to ignore or forget about, the gameplay is a blast and the level design makes for some engaging and exciting strategy gameplay. A nice variety of enemies to fight, along with a number of different options to use make for an extremely engaging campaign. I wish there could have been some more variety in buildings to create, but what was there was useful for the campaign missions. One of the most annoying issues I ran into was grouping units and trying to move one group at a time. If they were in a confined space, no one moves. Also some random glitching that can cause units to get stuck in the base if a building is built while a unit is there. Despite some minor annoyances, though, overall, Halo Wars is a very seamless combination of RTS and Halo.