Microsoft announces the next downloadable expansion pack for Halo Wars 2, which will be called Awakening The Nightmare. In this DLC, players don the role of The Banished.

There's a new Halo Wars 2 DLC coming out this autumn and it puts you in control of the Banished as they stumble upon an ancient, parasitic evil. Yep, it's Master Chief's old, fleshy mates: the Flood.

Regardless of how long Halo Wars 2’s campaign is to complete, it’s a good idea to complete at least a portion of it before jumping into multiplayer, as it’ll help you learn the ropes and the ...

Halo Wars 2 brings back solid, streamlined strategy tuned for consoles, with a new hook that may keep players coming back long-term. Our review.

Ever since Halo Wars 2 launched with only a UNSC campaign, players have been eager to have a go as antagonists The Banished, and to see any sign of The Flood - one of the franchise’s most ...

All in all, Halo Wars 2 feels like a Halo game in many ways — arguably more than some games from the main series, such as Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians. However, it is not a Halo game in the way ...

But Halo Wars 2 can often feel too stripped-down to be truly strategic. On the one hand, it’s accessible, but the campaign is only challenging in the final few missions and is a little ...

Halo Wars 2's base game shipped with a meaty 12-mission long campaign, an extensive multiplayer suite, and a new mode called Blitz, which altered the traditional Halo Wars real-time strategy (RTS ...

If you're hoping Halo Wars 2 manages to make a real-time strategy campaign feel fresh, you'd better hope harder. Our first hands-on? A good ol' "attack-these-three-points" mission.