Following yesterday's revelation of an exact release date for the forthcoming Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising, THQ has confirmed that two other new releases in the Dawn of War series will arrive on the same day. Both Dawn of War II: Gold Edition and Dawn of War II: Game of the Year will launch on March 12th 2010 across Europe.
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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I have dawn of war two and its not like all other RTS games I have played before. Theres no way to build a base and build new units in single player like all other RTS games. This put me off the game.
Can you build bases at all in multiplay? I like building bases and really enjoyed Dawn of War and I've been thinking of buying this but today watched a video review and heard the reviewer say there was no base building and that it played more like an action RPG.