Doom 2

Title: Doom II: Hell on Earth
Platform: MS-DOS, Xbox 360, Macinstosh, Playstation 3
Developer(s): DivineGames
Release Date: 
Genre(s): First Person Shooter
Online/Single player: Offline, Online
Rating: 5/5

Gameplay

Campaign

After the demons finds their way to Earth, you once more have to stop them, this time from destroying your planet. The campaign is really long, it takes 23 minutes to just speed run, and if you want a perfect score you have to eliminate everything. That can take quite some time. The game has six difficulties, and have some funny names, The easiest one is named "I'm too young to die!"and the hardest is called "Nightmare"

Coop

Since the campaign can be extremely difficult, it will help you alot if you play in coop, and has a companion to back you up.

Weapons

Doom II has a large variety of weaponry that are both original and powerful. Starting weapons are the brass knuckles and the pistol. Most commonly used is the pump action shotgun, which is known for now having to aim at opponents, as the bullets "find their way" themselves. Of course, the pump action shotgun isn't enough, so they also added in the Super Shotgun. This gun fires two shells at the same time, doubling the damage, and the reload speed is increased. Next is the minigun. The minigun is basically a huge machinegun that can easily mow down hordes in the matter of seconds. If you are up against stronger enemies, the minigun can stun them and keep shooting them until they die. The Rocket Launcher can store up to fifty rockets, and fire all of them semi-automatically, without the need to reload. Be careful, the rockets can damage and/or kill you if they explode too close to you.

Then there is the chainsaw. The chainsaw is really powerful against individual opponents, as it can stun the enemies while damaging them, just like the minigun. The chainsaw doesn't require ammunition, and is therefore a permanent melee weapon, if you can obtain it.

And then, my personal favorite, the BIG FUCKING GUN 9000, or the BFG-9000 for short. The Big Fucking Gun is the most powerful weapon in Doom, and can completely obliterate even bosses with two simple shots. The shots also radiates over larger areas, so it can clear out entire armies at once, giving it the nickname - The Room Sweeper. Of course, a weapon this powerful is given extremely limited ammo, so only use it when you need it.

Monsters

The monsters in doom 2 are very original, and they are extremely fun to kill, as they all blast into gory pieces with their insides all over the floor. A couple of them are the demons, the cacodemons, the faunas etc etc... The demons are melee fighters that run into you and try to eat you. They are weak individually but in numbers they are fearsome, and if you are in a tight spot then there is no escape. The Cacodemons are big flying head that shoots fireballs at you. The minigun is very effective against them. The faunas as I've dubbed them is a half man half goat thing that fires green fireballs at you, and these fireballs deal way more damage than the Cacodemons.

The player

The player is with no doubt badass, but he hasn't really been given an official name. Most people just call him Doomguy.

Multiplayer

The multiplayer in this game is really fun. The huge variations of weapons you can use, and with the speed you can run, its a competition of who has the best accuracy and fastest reactions.

This game is incredible. Though it is a bit outdated, it is among the best FPS games I've played, right next to Halo.

Realm Grinder

Game Details:

Title: Realm Grinder
Platform: PC
Developer(s): DivineGames
Release Date: May. 2015
Genre(s): Idle (slight medieval theme)
Online/Single player: Offline
Rating: 4/5

Gameplay:
Entering the game, a game screen approaches us (see the first picture). The first thing I did before anything was first make a quick overview and try to understand how this idle game was setup, but without fully understanding, I started clicking the chest. The chest is where the basic coin gathering happens. 

Starting out
Each click gave me a coin each. After gathering 10 coins, I could buy my first "building", the Farm. Unlikely other idle games, the first building gave me a decent amount of cash regeneration. That is what many idle games miss on, the first upgrades is too weak, and it gets boring after a short while. So a quite decent first building was a plus, and it did not take long until I got more and more money, buying many Farms and Inns. 

As you go on deeper into the game, you realize there are many different kind of coins involved into the game. These are coins that are possible to achieve only by clicking the treasure chest. It is the same chance to get all the different coins, it is 2% for all of them. The different kind of coins are:

• Demon coins
• Undead coins
• Goblin coins
• Angel coins
• Elven coins
• Fairy coins

Mana

On the top left, there is a mana bar that allows you to purchase some powerups for your game experience. Your maximum mana is 1000, and in the beginning it regenerates 0,5 per second. Later on with several upgrades, you can make the regeneration go faster. The abilities you can buy are limited to two at the beginning of the game. They are:

1. Tax collection: It costs 200 mana and you instantly get 30 seconds worth of cash. 
2. Call to arms: It costs 400 mana and gives you 20% extra coins for 30 seconds. 

Later on, you will have access to other awesome abilities too. 

Achievments

Realm Grinder has an achievment system. It is very basic and keep track of your progress. Nice to check sometimes!

Upgrades

The upgrade bar is very messy at times. You can not decide what upgrade is what, so you will have to go through every single of them and read. There are many different kind of upgrades, everything from making buildings more efficient to making the clicking more useful. Some upgrades even unlocks new buildings to buy. 

The Important Choice

You know those special types of coines, which appearently belongs to a specific race or group of creatures, such as angels and demons, those coins are very useful later. After collecting 20 pieces of the same type of coin, you are one step further out into the game. With twenty of them. you are now able to purchase a new "route" on how the game should be. By choosing the upgrade of your choice, There is an upgrade for every single type of coin, and every different upgrade gives you a specialty. I chose the elves, which gave me a boost on treasure chest clicking. 

This purchase cannot be undone without a reset!

After purchasing the race you wanted, that type of coin will be the most important one. All the other types can be used to purchase upgrades for overall gold gains. 

You will get new kind of upgrades directing against the course you chose, and they are almost never ending. 

At the cost of 100 coins of the specific coin you chose earlier you can buy a mysterious upgrade that unlocks new upgrades.

Reset 

As in almost all other idle games, there is a reset button that will reward you with bonuses if you have come far in the game before resetting. 

Conclusion

The overall conclusion of this game is: It is fun to play when you got some spare time. Since it is an idle game, you do not have to spend every single second of playing it looking at the screen, after a while, it gets very automatic. The concept of the gameplay is a bit advanced for someone, but just a regular internet user would fully understand it well. Personally i think it is a great game and i gave it a rating of 4/5. 

Graphics

The first thoughts of the design and graphics is very positive. It is calming and clean.
First I notice is the coins, besides the beautiful drawn chest of course. The graphics of the game is very smooth and matches everything. The color of the coins is very symbolic for the creatures. The navigation bar is very nice and simple, and the setup of the upgrade bars is nicely done. The only thing bothering me is that the icons of upgrades and such is a bit confusing. 

Latest Updates

Latest update added 28/5 - 2015:

• Added Hotkeys for Spells! 1: Tax Collection, 2: Call to Arms, 3: Alignment Spell, 4: Faction Spell.
• NEW UPGRADES: each building now unlocks a new upgrade when you build 200 of them. Farms, Inns and Blacksmiths follow the increasing rule set in a previous update, granting them a further bonus of 500%. All other buildings get a 100% bonus while Halls of Legends get the 50/0.5xTrophy as usual.
• God’s Hand base cost has been increased to 1000 mana, up from 900.
• Call To Arms effect has been reduced to 0.3% per building, down from 0.35%.
• Added visuals for Assistants! A small, flying, faction-themed dot will be stationing beside the treasure as soon as you have at least one assistant, providing a useful tooltip when you hover it. If you wish to disable assistant graphics, there is a new checkbox in the Options tab.
• Grinding Dedication now remains unlocked and available to purchase through soft resets.
• Added an option to disable Trophy Popups.
• Fixed an issue that could lead to a crash and grey screen.

Full change log can be found at kongregates game page: http://www.kongregate.com/games/DivineGames/realm-grinder?haref=HP_HNG_realm-grinder


If you are bored and has nothing else to do with your life but staring at your roof all day, i highly suggest you to try this game.

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Halo 3

Title: Halo 3
Platform: Xbox 360
Developer(s): Microsoft, Bungie
Release Date: 2009
Genre(s): FPS
Online/Single player: Online/Offline
Rating: 5/5

Info:

Halo 3 takes place about one year after the invasion of earth. Humanity has been completely pushed into a corner, and the Covenant keep pouring in. The flood also shows up, so now you have to deal with an alliance of powerful alien species AND a parasite that can instantly turn you into one of their own. However, since the Covenant betrayed the Elites in the second Halo game, they are now siding with humanity, which feels really good. Since the first game, the Elites have been your nemesis, but in the third installment, they're your most powerful ally.

Gameplay

HUD

The HUD isn't a lot more different than the previous games. The detail's a bit better, the shield bar is in a different location, etc etc. They did add two new HUD's, though. One for when you play as Elites, and one for when you play as the Guilty Sparks in Forge Mode.

Campaign

The Campaign is once absolutely stunning. Everything about it just feels so right, and the parts where you play side by side with the Elites is so much fun I can't even describe it. Halfway through the game you try to save Earth from both the Covenant and the Flood, but when you realize that it's futile, you desperately try to do something that hasn't been done in the previous Halo games. You light the ring. Now, if you played the first Halo game you should know that lighting the Halo ring will probably extinguish all life in the galaxy, but seeing as how the Flood is winning, you don't have a choice. I am not going to spoil any more of the game, because seriously, its amazing.

Weapons

Some new weapons were as well added in the newest installment of Halo. The Spartan Laser, which is a slow but powerful weapon that can easily one shot Scorpions (Scorpions are heavy tanks) They added the Flame thrower, which can only be used on one map, but damn is it fun. They added two new grenades as well. The fire grenade and the spike grenade. The spike grenade is similar to the hedgehog grenade from Resistance: Fall of Man.

As for the Covenant, they got a spiker, which is a weapon that fires spikes. It's similar to the human SMG, but its sort of cooler, and has a more powerful melee attack.

A new ability was added in that lets you tear stationary weapons off their post and carry them. This weapon makes you walk slower, and removing them from their station limits their ammunition, but nonetheless its powerful.

Equipment

One of the coolest things that was added in Halo 3 was the equipment you could use. There are many different equipments you can use, but my own personal favorite is the Bubble Shield. The Bubble Shield is what it's called: when you use it a bubble will spawn where you land it. This bubble will deflect any attack for a short period of time. Enemies can still walk through it, and be advised as vehicles can drive through it, killing you instantly. It is still a useful item.

Here you can see when Spartan 1337 uses the Bubble Shield to deflect an attack from Pluton.

The clip is also from the Halo based anime, Halo Legends.

New Cool Flood Ability

Although its terrifying, it is still really cool that they added in an ability for the flood to actually turn both humans and aliens into Flood Combat Forms.

If you play in Coop mode, you might actually see your own body being turned after you die and respawn.

Here you can see a marine soldier being overrun by flood Infection forms. He painfully but quickly turns.

Halo three, or any of the Halo games really, is a masterpiece that is recommended not only for FPS lovers but gamers in general.

Halo 2

Title: Halo 2
Platform: Xbox
Developer(s): Microsoft, Bungie
Release Date: 9th of November, 2004
Genre(s): FPS
Online/Single player: Online/Offline
Rating: 5/5


This review is work in progress...

Info
Halo 2 takes place about one year after Halo: Combat Evolved. After you successfully neutralize Halo in the first game, you finally come back to Earth to be rewarded for your heroic deeds. However it is too late, and the Covenant has already discovered Earth. An all out war begins, and you need to protect a city that the covenant finds oddly interesting. After you successfully repel Covenant forces out of the city, the enemy prepares a Slip Space Jump. You, and your fellow marines follow them and discover something that strikes fear in your heart... The second installation of Halo.


Gameplay

HUD:
The HUD has minor changes. The radar, weapon and shield bar have been modified so its easier to keep watch over both enemies and shield power. You don't have a health bar anymore. Instead, your health is recovered when your shields recover. This is a pretty useful update, as it was true hell to play Halo: CE with only one bar of health left and no health kits to spare.

New weapons and dual wield
Halo: CE was already filled to the brim with unique, creative and fun-to-shoot weapons. The ones

added in Halo 2 was not different. The game had a new type of rifle, called the battle rifle. Unlike its successor the assault rifle, this one had burst fire, and would help you in conserving ammo. They added the SMG, which was weak individually but could become insanely powerful if you dual wielded them. They added a stationary machine gun, which couldn't be carried, but when you find one it can unleash one hell of a powerful volley. Mostly used in crowded areas, it has infinite ammo and can kill everything you aim at. Of the alien weapons they added the Brute shot, which fires grenades, and it also has an enormous axe... knife... something sharp on the back of it. You know, like a grenade launcher, only 100 times more awesome. They added the Brute Plasma Rifle, which is the same as the plasma rifle but with red plasma instead. They also finally made the Energy sword available to players.
One of the things I DIDN'T like was the fact that they completely removed the assault rifle from the game, and severely nerfed the pistol, which was one of their trademark weapons.
One of the best things they added was the ability to the game was the ability to duel wield weapons. This was one hell of a cool feature, as two SMG's could unleash hellish powers.


Campaign

The campain, like all Halo games, was the best part. There's so much to discover, so much to kill! The thrilling story of how you discover the second Halo, how you once more must save humanity, and how you must once more must stop the Flood from spreading, is a well written and compelling story.

Multiplayer

The multiplayer ain't bad either. Most of the old maps have been replaced with new maps, some are better, some are worse, but they kept Blood Gulch and Battle Creek, which is good as these two maps are two of the best multiplayer maps I have ever seen. Battle your friends in a epic 16 player match, be it free for all or capture the flag, or any other mode.

Playing as the elites
One of the coolest things Halo 2 had in them was that you could actually play as the Elites, or rather the Arbiter, in his own campaign to destroy the Heretics. This feature got incredibly popular among fans, and is what sparked the ability to play as elites in multiplayer.

The Arbiter and Master Chief actually encountered each other before Halo 2, but that was as enemies. Arbiter got his ass kicked, and was literally kicked out of his own ship, which is why everyone apparently disrespects Arbiter.




This game is a masterpiece, and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys FPS games. If you don't have the original Xbox console, they remastered the game for newer consoles and is called Halo 2 Anniversary.

More information coming soon...

Resistance: Fall Of Man

Title: Resistance Fall Of Man

Platform: PS3
Developer(s): Insomniacgames
Release Date: 13. November 2006
Genre(s): FPS
Online/Single player: Online/Offline
Rating: 4.5/5

Info:
Join Sergeant Nathan Hale and his crew of human resistance forces, as they are striving to stop a mysterious alien-like invasion that takes place in Britain, year 1951 in an alternate history. What made this game so popular was not the fact that they managed to create a such good First Person Shooter, because honestly, if you took a couple of steps away from your Television and look at the game from a far, this game could easily be mistaken as a Call Of Duty game. But thats not it. The storyline, graphics, amazing voice actors, original weapons is what made it so special. Remember, this was one of the first games ever created for our beloved console PS3, isnt that just an amazing start for an awesome console?

Gameplay:
In Resistance: Fall of Man you can play both custom games, like Call of Duty where you enter a small map together with some friends, or the campaign mode, which in my opinion is far better and more interesting than the custom map. Dont mistake me, the custom game, making it possible to fight each other with badass weapons is all good but nothing beats a well developed story. However, I will write something about both of them.

Custom:
In custom mode you get to play with your friends, and just like in Call of Duty you are summoned on a small map where the only goal is to brutally murder each other until one of the players eventually gain enough kills to see the dramatic slow motion effect, while the victory text appears on the screen. You can also choose between various of modes, like the good old capture the flag, death match and team death match. Every one of them should not be too hard to understand the goal of, and therefor i am not going to write much about them.

I always loved the custom mode. Killing your friends with amazing future-looking weapons is always fun and is a cool feature to the game. There is also a bunch of maps that you can choose between, and every single one of them are well developed, and its pretty hard to get tired of them, unlike some other maps we know. Yes "Rust" i am talking about you. Some of the maps may seem too big for a match between four poor souls, but dont you worry, because there is also another feature that allows you to choose between the bigger or the smaller version of one map.

One thing I know a lot of people are getting mad at, that including me is that there is too much unbalance between the weapons, some of the weapons are op, while some of them are so weak that you will have to reload the gun a several times before you actually manage to kill the enemy, by this time he has probably regenerated his HP back and is ready to come with a counter-attack against you, this often ends up with having to flee away like a pussy, or getting killed because you managed to use all of your bullets trying to spray down the enemy.

Overall i think custom game is amazing, and well developed.. Just like the rest of the game. God this game is good, are you sure it was made in 2006?

If you play multiplayer you will experience the same thing, just this time with up to 40 fellow players.

Storyline:
In 1941, an alien-like race called the Chimera spread throughout the Europe, originated in Russia. The creatures mutate the humans virally by mutating them into fellow Chimera breeds. Who would ever guess. Their massive infection rate made the virus spread fast through Russia and Europe. Now they are heading for Britain, by digging tunnels underneath and invade United Kingdom. Their technology is far better than ours and makes them a hard target with their OP guns filled with energy and lasers.


In 1951 the game finally begins, as the protagonist Sergeant Nathan Hale, together with an elite force from the United States is on a mission to retrieve a secret weapon that the British claim can be used against the Chimera in exchange of supplies. However, this is not an easy task. Once he and his crew lands on York, the forces are ambushed by the Chimera. Once the forces die, their dead bodies are getting attacked by small insect-like creatures that infects all of the soldiers. Hale is the only one to survive this massive attack. He resists the full attack of these creatures and does not go into a coma, but rather gains extra strength, heath regeneration, and gold-colored irises, much like the Chimera themselves, thus the name Resistance: Fall of Man. And so Hale continues on his mission. The rest of the plot is only to be experienced by those who actually play the game.

Weapons:
There is a ton of weapons in this game.
Some of them are based on guns from the 1950´s while some of them are alien-looking guns, created by the Chimera themselves.
There are also a couple of Grenades.
The first one is just an original frag grenade, while the two others are far more advanced, one of them doesnt explode, but instead fills a minor area with gass which eventually takes fire. The most amazing Fire grenade i have ever seen. The third one is a spike grenade, which kind of explodes, but instead of a explosion it sends out spikes that deals massive damage.


                                          Trailer:

                                          Gameplay: - WillieBiscuits

Halo: Combat Evolved

Title: Halo: Combat Evolved
Platform: Pc, Xbox
Developer(s): Microsoft, Bungie
Release Date: 2001
Genre(s): First Person Shooter
Online/Single player: Online/Offline
Rating: 6/5






Info:  

You are the last of  your kind. Bred for combat, built for war, you are the master of any weapon, pilot of any vehicle... and fear no enemy.

Halo is the first game of the Halo series, that is still ongoing to this day, although only the first three games are directly associated with Master Chief.
(I counted out Halo 4 and 5 because these games are developed by 343 Industries, and not Bungie)

You play as Spartan 117, more commonly known as the Master Chief. Before the game begins, you have fled from the battle of reach, and has entered a "blind jump" in which your ship jumps randomly in order to escape the enemy fleet. Unfortunately for you, the Covenant got there before you and was waiting for you. As your ship, the Pillar of Autumn, is being sieged by Covenant soldiers, your task is to flee the ship with an AI that holds all information about humanity, and land on a mysterious ring-like object, named Halo. When you land on Halo, you must save your fellow human survivors, and discover the dark secrets that Halo contains.

Enemies and Allies
Your allies are the humans, which are mainly marines. Your enemies are members of the Covenant alliance, which seeks to destroy humans because apparently our appearances are "mocking" their gods.

The marines are strong in comparison to the majorities of the aliens, which are the Grunts and the Jackals. However, they need superior numbers to beat an elite or a hunter.
To the right: Master Chief facing The Arbiter
(I know Arbiter wasn't introduced until Halo 2)
The enemy is the Covenant, an alliance of alien species that consist of Grunts, which are the most common foe, usually just a meat shield, Jackals, which are either snipers or shielded infantry, Elites, in which the strength varies depending on their armor color, and hunters, which are the strongest of them. In later games we are also introduced to Brutes, which are stronger but also less intelligent than Elites, and drones, which can fly.

                                                                               
Gameplay

Perspective
The game settings are put in a first-person perspective. This means that you view things from the main characters eyes. Your HUD display is set to match Chief's visor view, and displays navigation, weapon, ammunition, health and shield.





Weaponry
The weapons in Halo are set to be futuristic. The human weapons use bullets like today, as we haven't
evolved as fast as the Covenant has, however they still have a more futuristic look to them. The Assault rifle, the shotgun, the rocket launcher, the sniper, and most powerful of them all, the pistol. Yes, the pistol was the most powerful of them all. In fact it was so overpowered that in later games they had to nerf it to the point where no one used it anymore.

The Covenant weapons consist mainly of plasma weapons. The weapons are the Plasma rifle, the Plasma pistol, the Fuel Rod cannon, and the Energy Sword. The energy sword couldn't be worn by players until later games though.
Conveniently, the Human weapons seem to be more powerful in the game than the Covenant weapon does. The plasma weapons however drain shields more effectively than the human ones though.


Campaign
The most beautiful part of Halo is the campaign. Except from the beginning where you play on the
ship, the game takes place on the ring world Halo. The story to Halo is an amazing work, so I won't go too deep in it and let you explore it yourself. The first Halo game is difficult to find today, but should you get a copy of it, it also works on Xbox 360 in case you don't have the original console.
You can also pirate download it to your PC. Be careful though, a lot of these files can contain viruses.

Halo Wars

Title: Halo Wars
Platform: Xbox 360
Developer(s): Microsoft, Ensemble Studios
Release Date: 27.February 2009
Genre(s): RTS
Online/Single player: Online/Offline
Rating: 3.5/5


Info
Halo wars takes place in the year 2525. The Earth has been overpopulated, and as a result the humans made colonies on other planets in the galaxy. Your colony, planet Harvest, is suddenly under attack by a unknown alien force.

Halo Wars is part of the Halo series, a series that was originally made by Bungie. Unlike the previous Halo games where you play as spartans in a first person shooter game, in this game you command your armies as either the UNSC or The Covenant.
Halo Wars takes place 20 years before the first Halo game, and is set to when the war begun.

Gameplay

Bases
You start off with one base that you use to build your forces with. Around the base you can build different Foundations that allow you to either train units, get resources or build power plants that give you energy.

When you run out of building space, you can conquer other bases and turn them into your own, further expanding the limit of what you can make.


UNSC
Resources
Your resources are presented as cubes which you use to either build buildings with, upgrade with or train units with. In order to get resources you must either find them across the map or build Supply Pads that infinitely gives you resources.

Power
Most of the features in the game are locked until you get enough power to use them. To get power, you must either build Reactors or capture power stations that are sometimes spread across the map. Without power you can't upgrade your soldiers or your buildings, so always improve your power supply.

Army
There are three different types of armies that you can train. Infantry, which are weak but cheap, vehicles, which are expensive and strong, and air craft, which can fly over mountains and get to places quicker. There are different types of these which do different things. Marines are effective against vehicles and air craft if you have the Rocket upgrade, and flamethrowers are super effective against other infantries, etc etc. The most useful units are the Spartans, which can steal enemy vehicles and aircraft, and are very strong when you have maxed them out.
Aliens have the same set of armies, but different types of units.

Spirit of Fire
If you play as the UNSC, which are humans, you will be given a enormous ship that will aid you when you need it. You can't deploy it or use it directly, but you can attack or support with it from above if you have enough resources. The Spirit of Fire gives different perks depending on which leader you play as. Cutter for example, has a Mac Blast which is very effective against individual units, and can ODST on any highlighted area on the map, which are stronger than regular marines. Of course, in order to use ODST's, you must upgrade your marines to the max. Anders on the other hand doesn't have Mac Blast or ODST, but instead has Cryo Bombs which can freeze your enemies and if used on air craft, the air craft will crash and die. All leaders have some perks in common, like the Pelican, which can transport your units from one side of the map to another. Some abilities needs power to use.

The Covenant

Army
The Covenant, or the Aliens has the same sets of armies as the UNSC, but different types of units. Instead of Flame throwers, they have Jackals, which are basically snipers. Instead of Spartans, they have Hunters, which are Vehicle Killers.
The covenant has a larger population than the UNSC has, but cost more resources to train units.



Scarabs
Scarabs are a unique type of vehicle that only the Covenant can use. They deal lots of damage, and can take insane amounts of damage themselves. However, they also cost insanely large amounts of resources, and you need to max your power level to build them. They also cost so much population that even though aliens have more space than humans, they can still only build two at max. They also take a lot of time to build, so if the opponent learns that you are trying to build one, they will try to destroy your bases to hinder you.

Resources
The Covenant gets resources the same way humans do, but their facilities have different names.

Power
Unlike the humans, the Covenant can't build reactors. Instead, you have to age them up, similar to the concept of Age of Empires. Each time you age up, you permanently gain one power. However, they can still capture and control Power stations that you can find throughout the map.

Alien Leaders
The Covenant doesn't have a "Spirit of Fire" to support them. Instead, they are given a powerful leader, which depends on which leader you pick before you begin the game. Each leader has its own unique ability. The Arbiter can enter Rage Mode which makes him much more powerful, and you can control him in that state. The Prophet can use Cleanse, which command its cruiser to glass areas that you want to "cleanse" It deals lots of dammage, but it moves very slowly. The Brute Chieftain can use Vortex, which spawns a black hole that devours anything it comes close with. When you cancel the Vortex, it explodes, damaging everything nearby.
Using these abilities drains you of resources though, so be considerate.


Rebels, flood and Forerunner bases
When you're going to conquer a new base, you usually steal them from either rebels, floods or forerunner bases. The rebels are fairly easy to beat. However, their bases are guarded by Turrets. Using the Grenade ability with no less than two marine squads should be enough to deal with that though. The flood are a parasite that works like zombies with guns. Infantry that are killed by the flood, are brought back as floods themselves, and will attack your own men. Floods with weapons don't do this, only the infector forms, carrier forms or the flying floods can turn your soldiers. The forerunner sentinels fires laser beams at your units, and are effective against vehicles and air craft.
To the right: A picture of a flood infected marine

Forerunner tech
On some maps you can find Forerunner technology. If you conquer these, you can spawn powerful Sentinels that will fight with you. These are free, but each time you buy one, it will be set on cooldown until you can spawn it again.

I covered most of it, but try the game out to find out about the other features. This game was hated on by many halo fans because it didn't follow the same gameplay as the previous halos. I, on the other hand, found it refreshing and amusing to play a game where you command Halo forces. If you are a fan of strategy, I advise you to try it out.
The only reason I gave Halo Wars a 3.5 rating instead of 5 is because the game gets boring after a while, and that is because of several reasons.
1. The maps are pretty small, so you don't get the feeling of conquering like you do in Age of Empires or Total War
2. The game is unbalanced. Despite the aliens having powerful leaders, the humans have better units like the Cobra, which can attack enemy units or bases from a far distance, and Forge's Mac Blast is extremely overpowered once you have fully upgraded it.
3. There aren't many strategic elements in the game. One of the fastest ways to win is to just spam marines until the enemy has been obliterated. Of course, it can be countered if the opponent is good enough, but it's still pretty cheap.
Overall its still a really fun game to play, and I recommend it for RTS lovers.

Also, some of the information here can be inaccurate. It's been a while since I last played this game.

Two trailers:

Idle Raiders

Game Details:

Title: Idle Raiders
Platform: Pc
Developer(s): Pitforest
Release Date: May. 2015
Genre(s): Idle, RPG, Pixel
Online/Single player: Offline
Rating: 4/5

Gameplay:

The first thing you will see when you join the game is a screen where you can see a bunch of buttons in the top, and some information about your Raiders on the left side of the screen. You start with one Raider, level 1. He is standing in the base, waiting for you to click the "Go farming" button. When you click this button, your Raider will walk down the map and enter the first map, which is the only map you have, so far. Now you click the "View Farm" map which will make it possible for you to actually see your Raider, as he brutally kills his enemies. For every monster he kills, you will see that you slowly begin to gain xp and gold, which you can see on the right side of the screen. You can use the xp to level up your raider, and you can use your gold to buy new Raiders. So far you can only have 10 Raiders. After you have killed a couple of monsters, you can click the + mark, spotted right under the "current farm map" text at the top of the screen. This is basically what you do, level up all your Raiders, buy more Raiders and level them up as well. I highly suggest you to buy all 10 Raiders and then start leveling them equally, as this seems more effective to me. When you have gained some levels, you should be ready for next step. The Raid simulator2000. This is a really cool feature to the game. You click the Raid button and start Raiding the crap out of the bosses. When you have completed a Raid, you will gain one item. From the first Raid this should be a sword. Use this sword and equip it on one of your Raiders to make them become stronger. However, you cannot just spam the Raid map whenever you want to, its actually added a cooldown to it, which i think is just amazing. After you have played the game for a while, the shopkeeper will eventually visit your base. You can buy lots of cool items from him. This is everything you need to know about the gameplay, so far. This game is still in its alpha, so there isnt really been added many features yet. But Pitforest has promised that he will eventually add new things, like the possibility to expand your base, have workers that gains resources for you, and much more.

Shopkeeper:
The shopkeeper is a NPC that spawns inside your base from time to time, however he wont always be there, so you should take this in consideration and start spending some gold before he leaves again. 

Raider:
There is currently only 10 possible Raiders at the moment. You start with one sword man. When you have bought 10 Raiders, you should have ended up with 4 swordsmen, 3 rangers, and 3 mages. 

Latest Updates:

2 Days ago: "Version alpha 0.2b uploaded. Rebalanced XP curve, improved item drop rates in the farm maps, and other things. Details in the developer log!" - Pitforest

Fully developer can be found here.

If you are bored and has nothing else to do with your life but staring at your roof all day, i highly suggest you to try this game.

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