Going after Decimus in Halo Wars 2 with a missile strike.
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Hands-on with Halo Wars 2’s grueling Lights Out mission

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Halo Wars 2, Microsoft’s next big exclusive on the Xbox One and Windows, has some very grueling missions in its single-player campaign.

I’ve been playing the game on the console in advance of its February 21 debut, and I had a tough time getting through the mission dubbed Lights Out. All told, it took me more than an hour to finish it, in part because there were times when I had no idea what to do. For the most part, long, furious battles are a good thing in a real-time strategy game as they really make you feel good when you finally defeat the enemy. (Check out the abridged video below.)

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.