Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare

Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by 343 Industries and released in 2017. It was published by Microsoft Studios. It is available on Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB T age rating.

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare is the 47th of 55 entries we hold in the Halo series. The next entry was Halo: Recruit in 2017. Its critic score of 80 is almost exactly the series average of 81. The highest-rated entry is Halo 3 at 91.

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Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 63% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 9 points above the year average.

Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare launched on 26 September 2017, within three weeks of Destiny 2, Cuphead, South Park: The Fractured But Whole and Middle-earth: Shadow of War. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the Xbox One's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Destiny 2, Cuphead, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Middle-earth: Shadow of War.

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