Halo: Spartan Assault
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Critic Reviews for Halo: Spartan Assault
These issues aside, Vanguard's created a decent blaster which offers a couple of moments of genuine bullet-dodging glory: Halo's touch-screen debut is good-looking, colourful, and fun. It's all rather bittersweet, really. If Spartan Assault was terrible, nobody would ever have to know about it, since the combination of release platforms makes it a bit of a curio from the off. In the end, it's actually pretty entertaining stuff. Here's hoping it eventually gets ported around a little.
Spartan Assault features flashes of frantic Halo brilliance, but skip the touch controls. Play with mouse + keyboard!
Still essentially the same game as released on mobile, but at twice the price and with microtransactions that are even more cynically-designed than usual.
Spartan Assault ports many of Halo's best elements to the twin-stick shooter genre surprisingly well
Halo: Spartan Assault transfers adequately from mobile platforms to the Xbox One, with microtransactions in tow.
Spartan Assault's simple gameplay and broken economy misses what's special about Halo
It's by no means Windows 8's killer app, but provided you have access to a Windows 8 device, you could do much worse than Spartan Assault.
This game does nothing for the reputation of a series that was already shaken after the departure of Bungie – it would serve Microsoft well to re-focus the Halo franchise purely on what it does best.
