Halo Wars becomes best-selling console RTS game

19.03.2009
Microsoft reveals that Thursday , their real-time strategy video game set in , which takes place 20 years before the events of for Xbox and , has sold over one million copies worldwide.

Halo Wars, which received primarily favorable reviews from game critics (), was released a little over two weeks ago and already the exclusive title has become "the best selling real-time strategy game on any current generation console."

For more details, read the official press release for Halo Wars' record sales below.

Halo Wars Sells One Millionth Game, Becomes Best-Selling Real-Time Strategy Title

Microsoft today announced that sales of "Halo Wars" have reached more than one million units worldwide, making the exclusive Xbox 360 title the best selling real-time strategy game on any current generation console. With a revolutionary control scheme designed expressly for the Xbox 360 controller and a riveting story that takes "Halo" fans deeper into the "Halo" universe, "Halo Wars" is breaking new ground for the strategy genre by introducing a new wave of fans to strategy games and reminding existing fans why it's so fun.

Set in the year 2525, "Halo Wars" takes players on a perilous journey through the famed "Halo" universe. As players take the command seat in the early, epic battles between the UNSC and Covenant, they will begin to unravel events 20 years before "Halo: Combat Evolved" that shaped the franchise into what it is today.