History Trivia / HaloWars

** RobinAtkinDownes is The Prophet of Regret (reprising the role from ''{{VideoGame/Halo 2}}'').

** Kim Mai Guest ([[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Mei Ling]]) is Professor Ellen Anders.

** Incidentally, this game ''is'' WhatCouldHaveBeen for the ''Halo'' series as a whole. It was originally planned as a strategy game when the game was still anticipated to arrive on Macs.

* HeyItsThatVoice: A sizable mix between Los-Angeles and Creator/{{Funimation}} voice talent.

* HeyItsThatVoice:

** [[http://www.reddit.com/r/HaloWars/comments/2nro3o/halo_wars_ama_with_graeme_devine_is_here/ In a Reddit AMA]], Graeme Devine revealed his notes for the opening of ''Halo Wars 2''. [[spoiler:The ''Spirit of Fire'' drifts in space for three years, piloted by Serena and Anders while Cutter is in cryo sleep. They follow a UNSC signal that calls them to a Forerunner dock, where it turns out to have been sent by none other than Sergeant Forge himself, who was teleported to the site just before the shield world blew up.]]

* CreatorBacklash: {{Creator/Bungie}} [[http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-09-27-halo-wars-bungie-saw-it-as-whoring-out-franchise-says-ensemble-founder was not happy]] about their IP being used by another developer for a different genre. As such, they had little participation with the game. However, they seem to have eventually made peace with it; the "Dr. Halsey's personal journal" booklet which came with the Limited/Legendary editions of ''VideoGame/HaloReach'' and ''Literature/HaloContactHarvest'' contain a fair number of direct references to ''Halo Wars''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The control scheme was designed separately for an original property, yet undecided at the time. Microsoft was not confident about the sales of a new series as a console RTS, so they demanded for it to be a ''Halo'' game instead.
** Incidentally, this game ''is'' WhatCouldHaveBeen for the ''Halo'' series as a whole. It was originally planned as a strategy game when the game was still anticipated to arrive on Macs.

** Why the game became a ''Halo'' title. The order to turn it into one was expected to speed up production, but actually pushed back development a full year. The execs thought it'd be easy to just port in ''Halo'' models from the previous games, not realizing that there's a big difference between a full-scale tank model for a high-res FPS and a tiny different proportioned one for an RTS, not to many all the new units that had to be made to fill gaps in the meta-game.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Why the game became a ''Halo'' title. The order to turn it into one was expected to speed up production, but actually pushed back development a full year, since it was more complicated than merely replacing all the units with ''Halo'' models.

* CreatorBacklash: {{Creator/Bungie}} [[http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-09-27-halo-wars-bungie-saw-it-as-whoring-out-franchise-says-ensemble-founder was not happy]] about their IP being used by another developer for a different genre. As such, they had little participation with the game.
** However, they seem to have made peace with it fairly quickly; the "Dr. Halsey's personal journal" booklet which came with the Limited/Legendary editions of ''VideoGame/HaloReach'' and ''Literature/HaloContactHarvest'' contain a fair number of direct references to ''Halo Wars''.

** David Sobolov ([[VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance Blackheart]]) is Arbiter Ripa 'Moramee.

** ChristopherSabat is the tutorial announcer.

** GreggBerger is Captain Cutter.

* ThrowItIn: Graeme Devine, the lead writer, made an entire press guide for the planet Arcadia, Bungie's writer Joseph Staten liked it so much that he included a mention of Arcadia in ''Halo: Contact Harvest''.

** However, they seem to have made peace with it fairly quickly; the "Dr. Halsey's personal journal" booklet which came with the Limited/Legendary editions of ''VideoGame/HaloReach'' contains a fair number of direct references to ''Halo Wars''.

** RobinAtkinDownes is The Prophet of Regret (reprising the role from ''Halo 2'').

** NolanNorth is Sgt. Forge.

** CrispinFreeman is Jerome-092.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Why the game became a ''Halo'' title. The order to turn it into one was expected to speed up production, but actually pushed back development a full year, since it was more complicated that merely replacing all the units with ''Halo'' models.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Why the game became a ''Halo'' title. The order to turn it into one was expected to speed up production, but actually pushed back development a full year.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Why the game became a ''Halo'' title. The order to turn it into one pushed back development a full year.

** However, they seem to have made peace with it fairly quickly; the "Dr. Halsey's personal journal" booklet which came with the Limited/Legendary editions of ''HaloReach'' contains a fair number of direct references to ''Halo Wars''.

** However, they seem to have made peace with it fairly quickly; the "Dr. Halsey's personal journal" booklet which came with the Limited/Legendary editions of ''HaloReach'' makes a number of direct references to the game.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The control scheme was designed separately for an original property, yet undecided at the time. Microsoft was not confident about the sales of a new series as a console RTS, so they demanded for it to be a ''Halo'' game instead.

* CreatorBacklash: {{Bungie}} [[http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-09-27-halo-wars-bungie-saw-it-as-whoring-out-franchise-says-ensemble-founder was not happy]] about their IP being used by another developer for a different genre. As such, they had little participation with the game.

** ''Halogen'', a fan-mod of ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerGenerals'' was halted by Microsoft to prevent it competing with ''Halo Wars''.