Firefights get pretty nasty in Halo Wars 2 multiplayer.
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Halo Wars 2’s 2-vs.-2 mode speeds up real-time strategy multiplayer for consoles

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Microsoft’s Halo Wars 2 comes with a suite of multiplayer modes that should satisfy the thirst for variety among real-time strategy fans.

Built by RTS studio The Creative Assembly, Halo Wars 2 will be published by Microsoft on February 21 on the Xbox One and Windows. It’s one of the big exclusives that Microsoft hopes will keep fans busy during a slow season. I had a chance to preview it at a recent Microsoft event.

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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.