Halo Wars demo coming February 5th

During their conference at CES, which had little to nothing game related in it, Microsoft took the time out to confirm a demo for Halo Wars will be making its way to Xbox Live on February 5th.

Halo Wars is first game in the Halo franchise to break away from FPS tradition, offering gamers a real-time strategy take of the series. The game uses species, vehicles, people and locations made famous in the Halo trilogy, but also introduces new elements of its own.

The game will be the last project to be developed by Ensemble Studios, as they were shut down by Microsoft during the last few months of development of the game.