Zero Punctuation: Halo Wars

[KaiRai]

Who the hell are Graham and Paul?
It was a good review though, especially the bit at the end with the rant about timings. Oh how RTS's screwed me out of many a mission on this basis! (And many other things. DOW NECRONS WITH YOUR BLOODY REGEN!)
And the bit with the panda, that was hilarious. He should play more though, I can see why Halo wars would seem like a pile of shit

 

[Mr.BucketHat]

I actually agree with Yahtzee on the control things. RTS's were made for mice, not controllers. At least, thats what I've always thought. After playing C&C red alert and Battle for middle earth. I like RTS, but damn if you can use it with 10 buttons and a couple of stalks. You need a keyboard and a mouse.

And there were a couple of good moments in the xblades part, but nothing exceptional, and I don't think '****' is a verb. I could be wrong though.

Who the hell are Graham and Paul?

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/unskippable

 

[Arcyde]

Yahtzee is on a murderous rampage.

First Graham. Then a poor defenceless imp.

Who's next?

 

[Sonic the s---t]

XD Excellent review...I enjoyed the Unskippable cameo. Very clever. XD You should review that new Sonic game (Black Knight or whatever--I can only imagine what you'd do with the talking sword), if you Australians ever get it.

 

[kaiser_what]

Who the hell are Graham and Paul?
It was a good review though, especially the bit at the end with the rant about timings. Oh how RTS's screwed me out of many a mission on this basis! (And many other things. DOW NECRONS WITH YOUR BLOODY REGEN!)
And the bit with the panda, that was hilarious. He should play more though, I can see why Halo wars would seem like a pile of shit

Those two guys from the Unskippable videos

 

[Fantomkilla]

at first i didnt accept the first guy, but theyre both really good, awesome-o!

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Yahtzee is so much funnier when he's upset. You have to pity what they'll do to him next.

 

[Rajin Cajun]

I enjoyed the ending the rest of it was a confirmation of what I already thought of Halo Wars. Oh yes and the beginning was atrocious almost made me close the browser.

 

[Jupsto]

agreed unskippable is crap. its not that funny even with yahtzee on it. its not hard to do, anyone could do it. with a bit of skill anyone could do their own zero punctuation, this is proven by G+P doing the start of this ZP really well, it was funny alot funnier than unskippable. but it would just a be rip off. yahztee came up with his own unique style which delivers really well, unskippable is simply talking over cutscenes making easy jokes. but each to his own.

 

[lojik98]

Another awesome ZP. Nice marketing plug for Unskippable, he wasn't terrible. Not nearly as good as Yahtzee though.

 

[HadesWTF]

An RTS with a timer is pure fucking fail. IE Halo Wars.


Lol @ Graham.

 

[sketchesofpayne]

Hilarious all around! What really killed me was the imps at the end. rofl

 

[skib132]

that was great a got the same problem

 

[runtheplacered]

That sucks he attempted such a lame RTS to see if he liked RTS's or not. Of course Halo Wars isn't any good. Not a big surprise.

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

2. The whole point of that mission was to recover troops and return to your ship before it got sucked into a massive portal and they be trapped on the surface of the planet and chewed on by the alien hordes, hence the time limit. The 'We've lost contact' was about the ship, not your units.

Quoted for truth. I didn't particularly want to type the exact same thing that someone else has undoubtly said before, but I would like to bring this up again so that anyone else missing the point can understand.

EDIT: Wait, if Yahtzee didn't make it to the end of the game, he can't have seen the last few cinematics! No wonder he doesn't like them!

Overall, I would say what I always say about Halo Wars. You may not enjoy it, you may think it's a cash in, but it has had effort put in. Some games, eg. Lord of the Rings: Conquest look like they were squirted out in an afternoon. Games like that don't get nice prerendered cutscenes and (mostly) inventive missions.

 

[Ormick]

Hey cool. 2 reviews. I don't think that the first one was half bad.

 

[Eternal Vigil]

I personally thought the X-blades review was pretty good.

If you guys really want to see a bad imitation of Zero Punctuation, I suggest you go onto youtube and type Zero Punctuation in.

There a plenty of very bad videos on there.

 

[sky14kemea]

wooo! loving the crossovers!
it'd be awesome if Yahtzee went on Unforgotten Realms aswell

btw great Battle Royale reference ^-^

 

[dorianlink]

The only problem I could see with the first part was that they ran out of ideas. otherwise I rather enjoyed it.

 

[Lothae]

I'm going to buy Pedigree Chow immediately once the stores open again, your imp's review has convinced me Yahtzee! (The scary part is I have a dog and I feed him pedigree already 0.o)

Graham's review got a few chuckles out of me, which is better than I expected it to.
I also have to say that Halo Wars is probably a pretty bad example of the RTS genre, try SCII when it comes out.