So all credit to Microsoft for having another go at taking its most treasured IP in this most difficult of directions. Today, two of those mighty names are no more and even 2009’s Halo Wars, which tried to re-think the whole experience from the ground up, proved to be developer Ensemble Studios’ final game. It’s now nearly a decade since Starcraft, Command & Conquer and Age of Empires regularly duked it out at the top of the charts.
F ew genres have fallen from grace quite as fast as the real-time strategy (RTS).
