Controller support is oddly lacking from the game’s initial release on PC, though Microsoft claims a patch scheduled for release in the coming weeks will add the feature. Instead of attempting to revolutionize shooters on touch-based devices, however, developer Vanguard has opted to bring Halo to the twin-stick, top-down shooter genre – well, somewhat.īecause there aren’t actually dual analog sticks on a tablet or smartphone, “Spartan Assault” is a dual-thumb shooter: The right thumb controls shooting while the left thumb controls movement.
At the time, traditional logic dictated that mouse-and-keyboard input was the only effective control system for a first-person shooter.
15, 2001, it reshaped how first-person shooters were viewed on consoles. When “Halo: Combat Evolved” was released for the Xbox on Nov. “Halo: Spartan Assault” represents Microsoft’s first effort to bring the Halo franchise to mobile devices, also marking the first original entry in the franchise not to be released on an Xbox console.
Microsoft placed a great deal of hope on Halo when it first broke into the console business, and now it’s attempting to leverage the reputation Halo built with a new entry on Windows RT, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 devices.
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