Nearly everything they touched was a classic, from the original Age of Empires, to the sublime Age of Empires II, the epic Age of Mythology, and ultimately, Halo Wars, which did the impossible by making Halo work as an RTS, controlling well on a gamepad, and despite both of those things, offering depth and strategy as a multiplayer game. Ensemble was one Microsoft’s best internal studios and one of the finest RTS developers of all time. That Ensemble’s final game was a Halo title was fitting, but its closure was nothing short of shocking. Since its founding in 1995, Ensemble had developed six games and six expansion packs, putting out a game nearly every year and sometimes more than one a year. It was a fitting way for Ensemble to go out: one of Microsoft’s most successful first-party studios, working on Microsoft’s most successful IP. It would garner a positive critical reception and sell over two million copies. Less than two months later, the studio’s final game, Halo Wars, would release. That’s when Ensemble Studios closed its doors for the last time.
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