Dawn of war 2 review

Overall-9/10
No dawn of war is complete without orbital cannon.


Gameplay-9/10
Good
-engaging singleplayer campaign with rpg element
-skirmish mode using tweaked company of heroes gameplay
-fully destructable world
-4 races played out entirely differently
Fugly
-no chaos?!!
-campaign only space marine

Visuals-10/10
Good
-dawn of war never looks this good
-fucking efficient
Fugly
-really nothing to complain about


It took them long enough,but it happened.For relic to upgrade Dawn of war visual engine and releasing its sequel.Rather than just sticking to the formula, relic tweaked almost every aspect of dawn of war gameplay.
An entirely new campaign concept never seen before in any RTS.A beautiful mixture of RTS and RPG,bleed together to make spilling blood with blood raven chapter ever so fun and addictive.Moving from battle to battle using the campaign map first used by dawn of war soulstorm, you could choose to fight the main storyline or pursue your own personal goals.Every mission would have a known wargear reward, while killing bosses or even normal xenos would have a chance for wargear to drop.These wargear have level and rarity with stats and special buffs that reminds you of world of warcraft.Every unit can level up to a limit of 20, each level allow investing 2 point on a stats system to customise your space marine to your fullest desire.However, only space marine is playable in the campaign and i hope more races will be added in further expansion.
Skirmish battle is now even more simplified without the need to build any structures at all. All construction and research is handled by your HQ, emphasizing now on strategic battles.Capturing different strategic points will give you different resources required to churn out units.The 4 races each has 3 heroes, choosing them at the start of the game will give you different ability to suit different playing styles.Furthermore, all races already played out differently from each other in the first place, adding these 3 unique command units create huge amount of variety in the battleground.Worth mentioning is the destructable world, which work great with the cover system.Destroying a cover used by an enemy may make your unit no where to hide later during the battle.
Powering this beast is an upgraded company of heroes visual engine, with obscene amount of shaders and post processing but somehow still able to run beautifully on an average system.
This game really up the ante on RTS and prove those twitchy fingers FPS fanatics that RTS genre is far from dead.Whether you love or loath warhammer 4000 universe, this game is probably one of the most enjoyable RTS title to bless PC this year.


OMG Eldar and Human sharing the same power point??!!


Burn the faithful.Kill the innocent.


LFG sunwell with space marine plox.