History VideoGame / HaloWars

->"''[[BaddAssBoast This is Spartan Group Omega. If they want war, we'll give them war.]]''"

->"''This is Spartan Group Omega. If they want war, we'll give them war.''"

->"This is Spartan Group Omega. If they want war, we'll give them war."

* EliteMooks: Spartan II super soldiers. Distinguished by their 7ft height (bout as imposing as elites), olive colored spartan armor , and ice-cold combat dialogue.

** The UNSC Vulture Gunship will sometimes say [[{{Franchise/Aliens}} "Stay Frosty"]]

* EmbarrassingFirstName: The Arbiter's given name is jokingly stated to be '[[{{Airplane}} Shirley]]' in the Main Menu tips. His real name is Ripa 'Moramee.

* HeyItsThatVoice: For starters: NolanNorth as Sgt. Forge, GreggBerger as Captain Cutter, RobinAtkinDownes as The Prophet of Regret (reprising the role from Halo 2) and ChristopherSabat as the tutorial announcer.

** [[PhysicalGod Some]].

** Gold medals require no to lose none of your units. Anyone get those on Legendary? Anyone? Anyone?

* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[AllThereInTheManual A collectable Black Box reveals]] that Douglas-042 got into an argument with Forge after [[spoiler:Anders was captured]]. The Spartan recommended that the Covenant ship be destroyed to prevent classified information from getting out, leading Forge to fight him and ''hold his own'' against the supersoldier. From then on, Forge and Douglas always ate together in the mess hall.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[AllTheirInTheManual A collectable Black Box reveals]] that Douglas-042 got into an argument with Forge after [[spoiler:Anders was captured]]. The Spartan recommended that the Covenant ship be destroyed to prevent classified information from getting out, leading Forge to fight him and ''hold his own'' against the supersoldier. From then on, Forge and Douglas always ate together in the mess hall.

** The UNSC Vulture Gunship will sometimes say [[{{Aliens}} "Stay Frosty"]]

An {{RTS}} spin-off of the main ''{{Franchise/Halo}}'' games by [[VideoGame/AgeOfEmpires Ensemble Studios]]. It was toted as an ambitious attempt to bring the RTS genre to consoles--although critics are split on whether it did a good job at that. It was not the only console RTS game, though, with further examples including ''{{Stormrise}}'', ''UniverseAtWar'', and arguably ''[[VideoGame/SupremeCommander Supreme Commander 2]]''.

An {{RTS}} spin-off of the main {{Halo}} games by [[VideoGame/AgeOfEmpires Ensemble Studios]]. It was toted as an ambitious attempt to bring the RTS genre to consoles--although critics are split on whether it did a good job at that. It was not the only console RTS game, though, with further examples including ''{{Stormrise}}'', ''UniverseAtWar'', and arguably ''[[VideoGame/SupremeCommander Supreme Commander 2]]''.

* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: ''Halo Wars'' has a quite restrictive limit on the number of units you can have at a time. Not that you can't kill your way through several dozen Covenant with [[TankGoodness Scorpions,]] Hornets, [[Badass Spartans,]] [[BoringButPractical Warthogs]] and [[DeathFromAbove MAC Blasts.]]

* BoringButPractical: Warthogs. while they start off like dung, they can be outfitted with Gauss Cannons and Troopers on the side with Grenade Launchers. Also the basic Marines, which can be turned into [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome/Halo ''Fucking ODST Troopers!'']]

* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: ''Halo Wars'' has a quite restrictive limit on the number of units you can have at a time.

* {{Embarrassing First Name}}: The Arbiter's given name is jokingly stated to be '[[{{Airplane}} Shirley]]' in the Main Menu tips. His real name is Ripa 'Moramee.

* LargeAndInCharge - The Arbiter is noticeably larger and more muscular than even the normal Elites, making him close to [[{{Doom}} Hell Knight]] size.

* NoCampaignForTheWicked: Ensemble wasn't even going to consider having a Covenant campaign in ''Halo Wars'' unless they were some kind of rebel heretic faction, and therefore presumably not evil enough to fall under this trope.

* PragmaticAdaptation: The perspective from which the game is played created some necessary exaggerations. For example, Spartans commandeering vehicles do a lot more [[DanceBattler elaborate gymnastics]] in the process of doing so, because more subtle animation would be hard to pick out at that scale. Likewise, the Cyclops's original design called for something similar to the early, pre-Spartan, MJOLNIR PoweredArmor as MightyGlacier infantry. However, this was changed to make it a MiniMecha because the scale made it difficult for players to identify them at a glance on a busy screen.

--> "[[CaptainsLog Captain's Report]], Feburary 4th, 2531: Five years. Five, long, years. That's how long it took us to get Harvest back. At first it was going well. Then setback after setback, loss after loss, made what was going to be a quick and decisive win into five years of hell. Of course that's all Harvest is today. It's hell down there. But now it's ours again."

An {{RTS}} spin-off of the main {{Halo}} games by [[VideoGame/AgeOfEmpires Ensemble Studios]]. It was toted as an ambitious attempt to bring the RTS genre to consoles--[[YourMileageMayVary although critics are split on whether it did a good job at that.]] It was not the only console RTS game, though, with further examples including ''{{Stormrise}}'', ''UniverseAtWar'', and arguably ''[[VideoGame/SupremeCommander Supreme Commander 2]]''.

An {{RTS}} spin-off of the main {{Halo}} games by [[AgeOfEmpires Ensemble Studios]]. It was toted as an ambitious attempt to bring the RTS genre to consoles--[[YourMileageMayVary although critics are split on whether it did a good job at that.]] It was not the only console RTS game, though, with further examples including ''{{Stormrise}}'', ''UniverseAtWar'', and arguably ''[[VideoGame/SupremeCommander Supreme Commander 2]]''.

* ShoutOut: The ''Pillar of Autumn'' is mentioned when the ''Spirit Of Fire'' arrives at Arcadia.
** The UNSC Vulture Gunship will sometimes say [[{{Aliens}} "Stay Frosty"]]

* PlanarShockwave: When the Shield World is destroyed.

An {{RTS}} spin-off of the main {{Halo}} games by [[AgeOfEmpires Ensemble Studios]]. It was toted as an ambitious attempt to bring the RTS genre to consoles--[[YourMileageMayVary although critics are split on whether it did a good job at that.]] It was not the only console RTS game, though, with further examples including ''{{Stormrise}}'', ''UniverseAtWar'', and arguably ''[[SupremeCommander Supreme Commander 2]]''.