
Rob Fermier has enjoyed a fascinating career, with his name attached to an impressive list of games, including Thief, System Shock and Age of Mythology. He co-founded C Prompt Games in 2018, the studio responsible for digital board game Heretic Operative and the Paradox-published 4X, Millennia. But between those periods he worked on one of the few actually good console real-time strategy games.
Halo Wars was developed by Ensemble, the studio behind Age of Empires. But it wasn't the only Halo game Ensemble was involved in. It was also working on a Halo MMO.