I hate sim games and love Halo Wars

I've been playing Halo Wars and for the record its awesome. If your like me you've been hearing alot of "hardcore" gamers crying about how it's not RTS enough and how it actually happens to be a dumbed down system that makes it easier and faster to play. I love it.

The game has trimmed out useless annoying steps that are usually involved with this genre. The most notable is resource collectin. No longer do you have to watch your grunts/harvesters walk over to mine/tree/whatever and slowly collect it and slowly walk back. You just build a building and a magical space ship from somewhere else drops off glorious cubes of building... perfect.

I might have a swayed opinion on RTS games because I actually lost interest in this type of game because usually its a giant pain in the ass that sees you farming your troops for an hour just blitz the bad base and realize you could have done it with a smaller army and not wasted all that time. Worst part is you try that the next level and get your ass thoroughly stepped all over and are given a lose for your efforts. I was going to probably go on with my life not playing this type of game anymore untill I heard about this one.

I decided to get back just to play this one. The best thing is this game is like playing a game and not doing some video console chore. You don't have to work at it. You don't have to strategize and think of how you want to create your town and where to place your buildings for maximum effort. You just add stuff to the predesignated pads and start the war machine.

Sure you can go through the levels slowly take cover in the captureable bases and strategicly cut off the enemy and chip away at their defenses and go that route. Or you can get a bunch of warthogs and tanks say eff it and run over some purple jerks and blow up everything else.

My main point is this: I don't want my video games to be work. I want them to be fun well paced blow shit up action.