Dawn of War II

Deviating a lot from the first Dawn of War, this RTS plays more like a tactical-action (Commandos) than a strategy game (even with is touches of Command and Conquer)

Pros:
-Great controls, even to seem easy to use many units in the field.
-Equipment and leveling up: brings some roleplay elements in the development of your team.
-Tyranids.
-3 game modes: campaign (Space Marines cleansing places), coop defense (pick your hero and prepare to withstands waves of enemies) and multiplayer (a mix between a hero RTS and a MOBA)

Cons:
-Too many times soldiers adopt stupid covers (like being in the two sides of a trench)

6 of 10


AmunJazz # 2015-09-26 19:39:45

Although the devs/publishers touted a lot about new approach to RTS with the title, the only thing I noticed to be truly new (for the type of RTS DoW2 is) was that your troops couldn't be killed for real. Few units (4 squads total in this case) to somewhat non-linear tactical missions have been done before, although none before in my experience are so lenient on the matter. Your squads can't be killed since only the squad leader is actually important and he can only be knocked unconscious. If all squads become unconscious, emergency evac is pulled and the squads and their leaders are back to full strength as if nothing happened. You lose the turn in the overworld meta-game with a lost battle, but that's hardly anything new. The squad leaders gain experience and level up occasioally, which can be spent on very few areas of interest, and they can be given new equipment which most of the time just makes them more powerful, resilient and generally more efficient.

Each map has several teleport beacons scattered around where squads can be re-inforced, 2 secondary objectives which can be completed, and the primary objective. These are invariably(?) placed at the 4 corners of the tactical map. You can perform multiple attacks on single turn if you perform sufficiently well in a battle, but this is usually unlikely on harder difficulty settings. Each map also holds a boss at the primary objective location who usually has 200 times (and more) as much health as the more regular units from the tougher end. On harder difficulty settings these become rather dreary as you spend most of the time resuscitating unconscious squad leaders and doing round-trips to teleport beacons for re-inforcements than actually fighting the bosses.

In conclusion, the base tactical gameplay is interesting like in any other tactical game, but all value is lost from the fact that you can practically never lose and success in missions is purely based on how well you manage to keep at least one squad conscious long enough to get the others back up, beyond that, all your great tactical plans are pointless except to reduce the number of times you need to get the squads back up.


Sanguine # 2009-04-15 18:52:08

It’s the 41st Millennium in the Sub-Sector Aurelia – a cluster of worlds on the edge of the galaxy – where a battle of epic proportions is about to commence. Ancient races will clash across the planets that dot this sector of space, battling for the greatest of stakes – not only for control of Sub-Sector Aurelia – but the fate of each race.

With a focus on fast-action RTS gameplay, Dawn of War II brings to life the science fiction universe of Warhammer 40,000 like never before. Experience the intimate brutality of battle as you play through your chosen race’s epic campaign. Clash with the enemies on battlefield ablaze with visceral melee and ranged combat. Lead and develop your squads from raw recruits into the most battle hardened veterans in the galaxy. Also included is The Last Stand, a co-operative game mode featuring user controlled heroes fighting waves of enemies.

# 2017-02-17 15:58:14 - official description

DoW2 is perhaps best defined as tactical RPG than strategy RPG, with RPG elements mostly covering only how good your characters are doing their stuff and the otherwise equipment based system. There's no role-playing to speak of, though.

Sanguine # 2010-03-31 21:31:24

software: Essence Engine, FMOD audio engine, Havok Physics, Lua programming language, Steamworks API,

hardware: Pentium 4 CPU,

display: textured polygons

Minimum:
* Windows XP SP2 or Vista SP1
* Pentium IV 3.2 GHz CPU or any Dual Core CPU
* 1 GB RAM (1.5 GB for Vista)
* 128 MB VRAM
* GeForce 6600 GT or Radeon X1600 GPU
* 5.5 GB HD space
* 1.5 GB swap file

Recommended:
* Athlon 64 X2 4400+ or any Core 2 Duo CPU
* 2 GB RAM
* 256 MB VRAM
* GeForce 7800 GT or Radeon X1900 GPU

Sanguine # 2009-01-07 18:07:31

Tagline: "Your slavery to the False Emperor ends today!"

Sanguine # 2010-03-30 22:55:27

Latest version: 2.2.0 (as of 2010-04-??)

Version history:
* 1.3.2 (2009-05-14)

Sanguine # 2009-06-08 21:06:29

2009-01-19 gone gold
2009-01-21 closed beta with Soulstorm owners started
2009-01-28 public beta
2009-04-15 single-player demo released

The betas are used to produce a day 1 patch if necessary for the actual release slated for 2009-02-19.

Sanguine # 2009-01-23 12:29:53

Factions:
* Space Marines
* Orks
* Eldar
* Tyranids

Sanguine # 2008-04-05 11:48:46

prequel of
Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising (Windows)
Command & Conquer (N64)

sequel of
Dawn of War – Soulstorm (Windows)

similar to
Commandos (Mega Drive)