News just reached us that THQ is releasing the Last Stand feature as found in Dawn of War II as a standalone downloadable game to cater to potential new players. The aptly named ‘Dawn of War II – Retribution – The Last Standalone’ allows new players to dive into the game by experiencing the popular Last Stand mode – no RTS experience necessary. If a player decides this game is his cup of tea, he can easily upgrade to the…
The original Dawn of War 2 was an odd beast. Coming from a strong strategy heritage, one firmly entrenched by about a billion add-ons for the original game, it decided to step away from the base-driven confines of its predecessor and into a more squad-based realm. It was a slightly confusing take on things at first, but it opened up the developers to really grab hold of one of the more appealing aspects of the 40k universe, narrative. Chaos Rising…
Dawn of War 1 was a veritable classic in the real time strategy genre, a vibrant, violent, visceral explosion of all out mayhem. There’s nothing quite like it out there. Dawn of War 2 shares many of its elder brother’s traits, with some interesting improvements of its own. But the bosses are rubbish. DoW II off-line/coop begins more or less as it ends; you lead a limited number of squads – in fact, if you only have 1 if you…
Dawn of War 2 multiplayer is an exercise in frustration, while at the same time being incredibly compelling and simultaneously tense. It does a lot of small things right, and a few big things wrong, and some things are just a little too confusing. Like many RTS games, the singleplayer would seem to act as a tutorial for the multiplayer, and without that conditioning and slow understanding, the multiplayer is both overwhelming and wonderfully chaotic. Things happen, and you have…
It’ll be worth keeping both your ocular cavities peeled on the Dawn of War 2 Community Site tomorrow, as they’ve all but said there’ll be some news on the Multiplayer beta of the game announced then. Along with that is the system specs for the game, which all seem rather reasonable given how bloody beautiful the game is looking. Hit the jump to check them out in more detail.