The mouse-and-keyboard combo that has served PC strategy enthusiasts so well over the years just doesn’t have a parallel on consoles. Developers have always struggled to make large scale battles feel manageable on a controller. Certainly the popularity of RTS games in general has waned in recent times, but the main reason for the genre’s absence has always been a problem of control, or rather, lack thereof. Fascinating when you consider that, just as it was when the game’s predecessor was released eight years ago, real-time strategy games have basically no presence on consoles. Although the game is available on PC (and compatible with Microsoft’s Xbox Play Anywhere initiative), it’s on the Xbox One where it will probably find its biggest audience.
