Halo: Spartan Assault

**inspectercoley** · 19th July 2013

http://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/ga...spartanassault

Anyone played this arcade type halo game yet.

Release yesterday but not sure if it will be any good.

**akimba** · 19th July 2013

Yeah got it on me Lumia, once get used to controls i.e. your fat thumbs covering up some of the enemies then its pretty good ;-)

**inspectercoley** · 23rd July 2013

Do you have to control it with touch screen or can you use kb and mouse?

**akimba** · 23rd July 2013

Only got it on me Windows phone and that too small for kb/mouse.

The controls are more like geometry wars on xbox where you use 1 thumb stick to move and 1 to shoot but on windows phone you just leave out the stick bit. So I don't see how it could be ported to kb/mouse.

**inspectercoley** · 23rd July 2013

Yeah I just got it for Windows 8 and you can change to KB and mouse controls which are AWSD and mouse mostly.

I like it so far. Nice and simple run and gun. Good fun for �5

**EvilBoB** · 24th July 2013

I think it's disappointing that games are coming out for Windows 8 only. No way in hell am I moving to 8 for some time. Ran it on a couple of machines for testing and some things are better but I hate the interface and I get regular crashes (Probably because of the hardware drivers).

**inspectercoley** · 25th July 2013

I got the Asus VivaBook for the Mrs because it was on offer. She seems to like the touch screen and there are a few bits that are great, like being able to pause copying files and faster boot times and being able to refresh the system if it starts to get slow.

There is a hell of a lot wrong with it though.
The new start menu is more of a toy than any use as I realised when trying to actually do stuff (closing apps you have to drag across the whole screen rather than just pressing one button) and the desktop mode is a bit broken without tweaks since there isn't an easy way to load pre-installed software.
Went back to the classic shell so that I could access programs like paint for screen captures and software that doesn't have to be loaded in full screen (putting to 1/3 of the screen is the most pointless thing i have ever seen). The charms bar is also a pain when trying to shutdown but luckily you don't really have to do that often.

Hopefully windows 8.1 will be a bit better but sticking to win7 for anything non-touch screen.

Definitely a shame this isn't coming to arcade as would much prefer to play using xbox controller.
It's a bit weird controlling with thumbs on a laptop.

**akimba** · 25th July 2013

Originally Posted by inspectercoley

The new start menu is more of a toy than any use as I realised when trying to actually do stuff (closing apps you have to drag across the whole screen rather than just pressing one button) and the desktop mode is a bit broken without tweaks since there isn't an easy way to load pre-installed software.
Went back to the classic shell so that I could access programs like paint for screen captures and software that doesn't have to be loaded in full screen (putting to 1/3 of the screen is the most pointless thing i have ever seen).

Don't revert to classic shell, Install http://www.classicshell.net/ having the start menu back will make you see win 8 aint that bad at all ;-)

**inspectercoley** · 26th July 2013

ah yes, that's what i meant in fact. Very nice bit of kit and you can assign middle mouse button click on the start menu to load the new interface if you fancy as well.