A popular Real-time strategy from Microsoft Halo Wars 2 will become available for Windows 10 and Xbox One consoles later this month. The Successor of the original Halo Wars game from 2009 is currently available for pre-order in Standard ($59.99) and Ultimate Editions ($79.99).
Ultimate edition features Halo Wars 2, Halo Wars: Definitive Edition and a Season Pass. This means that with the Ultimate Edition you will get the original Halo Wars game with enhanced graphics and new achievements. Halo Wars 2 Season Pass brings you new Leaders, Units, Blitz cards and Campaign missions.
The original Halo Wars from 2009 was an Xbox 360 exclusive, but this one was designed for both Xbox One and a PC. Halo Wars 2 for PC features improved visual effects, audio, and graphics. Gamers that own 4K monitors will be able to play Halo Wars 2 in full 4K resolution.
David Nicholson, who’s an executive producer of Halo Wars 2’s co-developer company Creative Assembly said:
“PC certainly has an advantage at this stage because we can just put a badass machine under there and that lets us just do a lot of things while we’re still optimizing,” he says. “It will obviously look amazing.” But if you do have a powerful PC, “you can do some pretty incredible things with it.”
Halo Wars 2 will require a high-performance PC configuration as you can see below.
| Windows 10 System Requirements | Halo Wars 2 Min Specs | Halo Wars 2 Recommended Specs | Halo Wars Definitive Edition Min Specs | Halo Wars Definitive Edition Recommended Specs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating System | 64-bit Windows 10 | 64-bit Windows 10 | 64-bit Windows 10 | 64-bit Windows 10 |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 12 (Feature Level 11) | DirectX 12 (Feature Level 11) | DirectX 11 (Feature Level 11_0) | DirectX 11 (Feature Level 11_0) |
| CPU | Intel i5-2500 AMD FX-4350 |
Intel Core i5-4690K AMD FX-8350 |
Intel Core i3 or Equivalent | Intel Core i5 or Equivalent |
| GPU | AMD R7 260X GeForce GTX 650 Ti Intel HD 520 |
AMD RX 480 nVidia GTX 1060 |
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M AMD Radeon R5 M240 Intel HD Graphics 4200 |
NVIDIA GTX 560, 650, 750 AMD HD 5850, 6870, 7790 |
| VRAM | 2GB | 4GB | 512MB | 1GB |
| RAM | 6GB | 8GB | ||
| HD Space | 25GB | 25GB | 10GB | 10GB |
Halo Wars 2 will feature Campaign and Multiplayer modes where Multiplayer mode offers Skirmish, Strongholds, Domination, Deathmatch and Blitz gameplays. XBOX team will have a special event on February 7 at the Microsoft Store in New York where they will be sharing many Hallo Wars 2 prizes.
During the pre-order stage, Developer-343 Industries has released the latest trailer for this RTS that looks quite promising.
