Hellforge writes about its experiences with Dawn of War 2 which consist of both good, and plenty of bad.
Hellforge writes: "Dawn of War 2 is, for all intents and purposes, a solid game with solid gameplay. With that said, it's only solid if you ignore the fact that it has a 50% chance of crashing on me every time I load a new map or transition to another planet during the game's campaign."
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."
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great review. i think i may just get this.
Yet another good game crippled by bad programming.
While the game itself is enjoyable and very fun to play, the fact i have to login to GFW just to play it is ridiculas.
I knew id need to login for multiplayer. But if i just want to skirmish or play the campaign i MUST be connected to the internet. Last time i checked i bought a game not a client. Without an internet connection this game cannot be played at all. I cant belive any developer would release a game like this
I've read through the manual and the packaging and no-where does it say you need the internet for singleplayer. As such im appealing to all gamers out there, complain to Relic, THQ, anyone. just for the love of god dont let companies think they csn get away with releasing a game in this state. THey complain about pirates and then do this. Give us a game where if you buy the real product then its broken as you cant play offline at all.
We won the securirom fight, we can win this one too.
PS while i have no touble with map loading the game refused to instal properly so i had to download it from steam, which was rather irritating when i had the CD in my drive