A day ago, I had written about the Halo without the Master Chief story and I was sure things would be cleared up at E3. Well, they have. Although there was no one from Ensemble Studios to clear this, an updated data sheet confirms of reports of Halo Wars release before Summer 2009.

Hopefully there will be more about this in E3 later this week. The game will see its usual equipment of Warthogs, scorpions etc. The campaign will also enable you to use forerunner technologies.

Set before the events of Halo 1, the game kicks off on the planet Harvest, where the UNSC warship, the Spirit of Fire, comes under Covenant attack following the discovery of an ancient artefact.

The Halo Wars Multiplayer Online will have a max of upto 6 players commanding the UNSC or the Covenant with their own separate units.

We can expect a massive success as the developers are the ones who created Age of Empires series.

[Via] Eurogamer