Halo: Spartan Assault is Coming to Xbox Consoles

Posted on February 9, 2014 at 11:08 am

Earlier this year, Microsoft debuted a Halo-branded top-down shooter called Halo: Spartan Assault. The sport was designed primarily with tablets and smartphones in mind, and Microsoft tried to used the sport to sell Windows Phone 8 smartphones and the Windows 8 OS by limiting access to the sport to these platforms.

Obviously, with Windows Phone 8 representing a minuscule share of the smartphone market and only around 5% of Windows users on Windows 8, the game’s audience was extremely small. Today, Microsoft announced that it’s correcting this example and can be launching Spartan Assault on consoles this year.

The game will come to both the Xbox One and the Xbox 360 as a digital download sometime in December. Along with the complete content present in the mobile version of Spartan Assault, the console versions will feature an internet co-op mode, though cross-play between Xbox 360 and Xbox One systems should not available. It also comes with the “Operation Hydra” expansion for the sport.

The mobile version of Spartan Assault featured a tie-in with Halo 4 during which various armors and logos may be unlocked in Halo 4 by playing the mobile game. It’s unclear whether the console version of Spartan Assault will support these features, and additionally it is unknown whether the console version may have the microtransactions featured within the mobile game.

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