WorthPlaying writes: "Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II will take players to the brutal frontlines of war where they'll experience intense action and visceral combat through a non-linear single player experience and a fully co-op campaign. After yesterday's multiplayer details, we have one more exclusive reveal, Dawn of War II will have 49 achievements worth 1000 points."
VGChatz's Taneli Palola: "There's no question that during these years the overall popularity of the genre took a significant hit, as most games within it specialized even further by adding new elements from other types of games into their gameplay loops and consequently became increasingly niche as the years wore on.
However, this doesn't in any way mean that the period was devoid of great games. Quite the contrary, in fact. Arguably some of the greatest RTS titles ever made came out around this time, and much of this was because many developers were increasingly familiar and comfortable with adding new twists and gameplay elements to the familiar formula. As such, even when the genre's popularity dwindled, many studios were still creating excellent and groundbreaking titles almost every year, just for a smaller audience than in years past."
those were fun years red alert star craft command and conquer well when westwood studio made good games before EA brought them like bioware...
Aside from C&C 4, the other C&C's from EA were all good/great. The genre nose dived once Moba's rose in popularity, even Petroglyph Games (ex-Westwood employees) haven't had a hit since Star Wars: Empire at War (2006), all there games got abandoned after launch.
"This week when I was scrolling through my Steam library for a game to play I was stumped, until I found a mod which brought fresh air to an old classic. The game was the legendary Dawn of War series by Relic. The Dawn of War expansions; Winter Assault, Dark Crusade and Soulstorm along with other stand-alone titles like Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, give the universe the justice it rightly deserved."
Sega wants to give you even more free games.
This is really strange, as far as I know Dawn of War 2 has not been announced for consoles at all. Interesting...
Yes, this isn't a console title, but it's a Games for Windows Live title, and as far as I know, the first PC exclusive title that has achievements (all other titles like Universe at War/Fallout 3 were multiplatform) which is VERY cool.
How do you connect your Xbox Live to Games for Windows? I saw one of my friends on steam playing GTA IV PC, then went on Live and saw him playing it. Weird.
The games that support Games for Windows have a small app that runs in the background, you press the "home" button and it pauses your game and pops a small menu bar at the top of your screen, and then you can connect to GfW, giving you the same features as XBL (friends list, send emails etc.)
So your friend probably bought it through Steam and then connected to GfW once he was playing it.