Dawn of War 2 - Tyranids confirmed !

Pyr0

http://pc.ign.com/articles/900/900039p1.html

The Tyranide race has been confirmed for Dawn of War 2.

I'm looking forward to playing this, its gonna feature the destructible enviornments and cover system of Company of Heroes along with the Wargear options in the single player Space Marine campaign as seen in Dawn of War for the Comanders, but I'm not sure about the multiplayer aspect of it.

Base building has been downgraded and more focus has been put towards the squad, swarm, group aspect of the game and steady progression of your units through the levels.

It sounds promising, hopefully it'll take off like Company of Heroes did.

Sephiroth_dude

Im actually really looking forward to this,sounds cool,what month next yr is it out?or has it been confirmed yet?

BlitzKrieg

I was just coming in to post about how this really sets up for a starcraft 2 vs DOW 2 showdown and I cant f*cking wait.


I know the gameplay will be completely different between them, but they will have the same army aesthetics for 3 sides each (though DOW will probably have more armies) and since alot of die hard warhammer fans scoff at starcraft *ripping them off, and the less die hard observers admit that the similarities is unnervingly similar this will be an interesting season.


And people talk as if RTS is dying.

personnally I've enjoyed Relic's RTS more then Blizzard (and that will get me crucified I know)

Company of Heroes is still the game I play most on my pc and the original Dawn of War and Homeworld are both fantastic games.

Starcraft is fantastic storytelling and great gameplay as is warcraft 3, but the style of gameplay hasnt pulled me in as much as the territory style gameplay of dawn of war and company of heroes.

besides Relic are the only company to actually give me a worker unit I actually like, I hate Peons and other worker units, in COH because they double as sorts of infantry (enginner, pioneer, panzer grenadier etc) they are no longer a nuisence and are quite unique.

Maximilian

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

personnally I've enjoyed Relic's RTS more then Blizzard (and that will get me crucified I know)

Nothing comes close to Relic's RTS games as far as I'm concerned. Now, if they would get off their lazy asses and give me a new Homeworld game, I would be a happy man.

Mantel

There's a "meet the tyranid" video up on steam now. Nid gameplay footage.

http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=app&AppId=5075

Sephiroth_dude

Wont let me watch it .

BlitzKrieg

Mantel wrote: »

There's a "meet the tyranid" video up on steam now. Nid gameplay footage.

http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=app&AppId=5075

no space hulk

Maximilian

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

no space hulk

Man I loved space hulk!

Please guns -don't jam please don't jam please don't jam

grizzly

When's it out?

Maximilian

early 2009 I think.

Froot

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

personnally I've enjoyed Relic's RTS more then Blizzard (and that will get me crucified I know)

Well Company Of Heroes is officially the highest rated RTS game in pc gaming history, so Relic really did make the greatest ever

Company of Heroes makes every other RTS game look sh!t in my opinion.

Maximilian

There's a nice preview here
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=309996

Sephiroth_dude

Its out febuary next year I think cant wait.Empire total war is out in febuary next year too though :O.

Sephiroth_dude

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=945727&topic=45731699


found this on gamefaqs.com forum,theres gonna be no base building in the single player campaign only in multiplayer,I hope they have base building in skirmish mode.

BlitzKrieg

well skirmish is just fake online so i assume it will be identical to the online mode

Mantel

IGN have a hands on aswell, some more info on resources you capture during a mission and how the single player campagin progresses.

http://pc.ign.com/articles/932/932471p1.html?RSSwhen2008-11-20_151600&RSSid=932471

Sephiroth_dude

you wont be able to save during a mission at all,only once during the campaign,mother of god.

BlitzKrieg

thats not good, Ground Control 1 made the same design choice and it was a disaster, just made the later levels a pain to play through.

It was the biggest criticism of the game I think (thankfully they corrected it for the sequel but made alot of other changes (mainly the alien race) that people didnt like.

Then they got it spot on with World in Conflict.