Halo: Spartan Assault Reviews

Halo: Spartan Assault is ranked in the 17th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
7 / 10.0
Jul 22, 2013

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.

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Justin Davis
Top Critic
6.7 / 10.0
Jul 30, 2013

Spartan Assault features flashes of frantic Halo brilliance, but skip the touch controls. Play with mouse + keyboard!

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5 / 10
Jan 5, 2014

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.

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8.3 / 10.0
Aug 7, 2013

Spartan Assault ports many of Halo's best elements to the twin-stick shooter genre surprisingly well

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6 / 10
Dec 29, 2013

Halo: Spartan Assault transfers adequately from mobile platforms to the Xbox One, with microtransactions in tow.

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4 / 10.0
Jan 2, 2014

Spartan Assault's simple gameplay and broken economy misses what's special about Halo

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7 / 10.0
Jul 26, 2013

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.

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4 / 10.0
Jan 9, 2014

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.

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7 / 10
Jul 23, 2013

Spartan Assault is simple but entertaining.

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Unscored
Apr 6, 2014
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6.5 / 10.0
Aug 2, 2013

Microsoft's Windows 8-exclusive top-down shooter looks and sounds like a Halo game, but lacks the drama and spectacle of its Xbox cousins

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60 / 100
Feb 26, 2014

I thought that Spartan Assault would be a great addition to the Halo universe while expanding the audience with a new genre. In the end the short campaign, lack of storyline, and ease of gameplay make this a tough sell. I enjoy dual stick shooters like this, so I did enjoy my time with the game. However, you might have to lower your expectations with your purchase.

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Jan 10, 2014

This Xbox One port of the top-down Windows Phone shooter has fizzy gunplay but mediocre missions and questionable monetisation

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Ken McKown
Top Critic
6.5 / 10.0
Jan 8, 2014

Just remember before going in where this game originated, and set expectations accordingly.

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Jan 12, 2014

Ultimately, however, it feels like a mobile game, containing breezy missions that aren't much to look at and provide little in the way of a challenge. Oh, and it costs twice the price to access.

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60 / 100
Jan 5, 2014

At the end of the day Spartan Assault is not a bad game, but there are a few hiccups that hamper what could have been.

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4.9 / 10.0
Jan 13, 2014

If you own a Windows tablet or Windows phone, just play this on those devices instead if you must. Even if you are a huge Halo fan, there is absolutely no reason to shell out $15 for this game when you can play the exact same game for $7 on mobile devices. It's a shame because I feel like Halo: Spartan Assault could have been a great game if they took the time to add more features to the game. Make the game more challenging, add tons of new levels, make the game feel like a real twin stick shooter where I am shooting all over the screen to avoid being killed. That, to me, would have been worth the price increase, but as it stands, Halo: Spartan Assault on Xbox One is just an expensive port of a game that was released months ago.

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7 / 10.0
Jan 2, 2014

Besides its impressive sound effects, everything about Spartan Assault felt like a rushed-over port and does not offer any type of depth or impressions to warrant its release as an Xbox One downloadable title. Nevertheless, it still felt like Halo, which means a lot to would-be buyers.

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Dec 30, 2013

As a first attempt at bringing the incredibly popular first-person shooter franchise to mobile and downloadable platforms using twin-stick mechanics, Halo: Spartan Assault is a decent result. However, the game's lack of originality and recycled mission types eventually catch up with it.

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Ray Carsillo
Top Critic
3.5 / 10.0
Jan 7, 2014

A cheap port of a mobile game with glaring flaws at its very core that does a disservice to the Halo brand, Spartan Assault should be avoided like the Flood.

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