Source: CVG
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Cannon Fodder on the MegaDrive started it all, Starcraft on the N64 elevated the conflict and Command & Conquer deployed the first atomic weapons in the ongoing war between real-time strategy games and joypads. Console history is resplendent with examples of RTS atrocities, but Halo Wars is bringing peace with a decent set of buttons to push and a galaxy full of blammo.
The E3 demo begins with a Pelican dropship zipping along a valley, flanked by two new Hawk helicopters, headed towards a distant UNSC base. Upon arrival, a squad of marines disembark and join up with the marines already stationed at the facility. Team Awesome, as we christened them, head out to take on a gang of Grunts and Elites - the latter confrontation is a disaster that left little of our heroes bar a smudge on the landscape. See, these are marines - regular, fleshy, trouser-wearing folk, not seven-foot tall Spartan killing machines in shielded armour like Master Chief.
