Halo: Spartan Assault revealed for Windows Phone and Windows 8
As with other twin-stick shooters, Halo: Spartan Assault hinges on maneuvering your character out of harm's way while aiming and firing back in 360 degrees. The game retains controllable vehicles, established franchise weapons (see: canon canons) and covenant enemies, but moves the perspective to high above the battlefield and replaces the controls with a touch-screen interface. It's obviously more simplistic than Halo proper, and certainly more likely to be mentioned in an article with Microsoft's range of Surface tablets.
Halo: Spartan Assault is developed by 343 Industries and Vanguard Games (Greed Corp, Gatling Gears), and comes complete with leaderboards, weekly challenges, and connectivity rewards for Halo 4, firstly in the form of new Spartan emblems. It will also be accompanied by a three-part prequel comic series called "Halo: Initiation."
If dragging thumbs across a capacitive screen isn't ideal, you can play the Windows 8 version of Spartan Assault with a mouse and keyboard. According to Microsoft, "Halo: Spartan Assault will add support for the Wired Xbox 360 controller for Windows on Windows 8 PCs, tablets and Surface devices shortly after launch, via a title update."
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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/06/04/halo-spartan-assault-breaks-off-peace-for-windows-8-pcs-tablet/
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VEVOPosted:
Seems well suit for a mobile device. Made no sense to me when this came out with Halo Wars on consoles.
slapshot101Posted:
I don't really enjoy games that have this overhead view but I may learn to love it. Glad to see they are expanding Halo beyond Xbox.
SwiftPosted:
Nice im getting my new Win8 laptop in the next couple of weeks. So i'm stoked right now.
westrowPosted:
Windows xp and win8 is the best in my point of view. Win7 suck.. Dual screen suck on win7. But in win8 dual screen is the thing you need its so enjoyable !!
neboPosted:
-Tenth- Sounds Cool, I kind of wish I had a Windows Phone now. Or Windows 8!
meh, windows 7 is better. I haven't used a windows phone so I can't compare it to droid/ios
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