Halo Wars 2 is a real-time strategy game caught between console and PC

Halo Wars 2 is a game that very visibly straddles the divide between console and PC. It’s a real-time strategy game, a genre that — along with the MOBA and the MMORPG — has traditionally confined itself to the home computer. It’s also a Halo game, representing a series that drove the original success of Microsoft’s Xbox consoles, and became responsible for rehoming first-person shooters on TVs after Doom, Quake, and Half-Life started the genre on the PC. But these t