Dawn of War II brings great ideas to the table for future RTS' and is simply amazing.
User Rating: 10 | Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II PC
Dawn of War II, the sequel to Dawn of War, brings the player into a whole new storyline. No more is the campaign linear, but neither is it the simple campaign map of its previous counterpart's later expansions. This time you play as the Blood Angels in a campaign to defend your home system against rampaging Orks, Eldar raiding parties, and the greater threat of the Tyranids. Rather than having to build your force during each battle and leading large armies, you are instead in charge of an elite set of marines that go on smaller missions that are still just as brutal as before but with much more precision and tactics. There will be no walls of troops charging the breach in this campaign, at least not your troops. Rather you will be the one methodically destroying every enemy position, bombing enemies out of towers and capturing key points on the map. In fact, the single player campaign is more like an action RPG than a strategy game as you level up each unit and give them new weapons that you find during battle. Most stages have some kind of boss to defeat, and so it will always require strategy to figure out how you are going to beat them. Scouts play a much larger role in this game than before, because now they are capable of wielding large explosives and special weapons that greatly affect the outcome of most battles.
The online multiplayer is probably the best feature of this game, but it is nothing like the single player campaign. On multiplayer you can adjust which space marine chapters you want to use, and whichever race you decide to fight with will have different specialties to choose ranging from tech priest to marshal. Online multiplayer is difficult and very competitive, so one might want to play a few skirmishes to get used to how it works, but once you get the gist of it you'll have all sorts of fun blowing your friends up.
Also, the graphics for this game are great, along with the physics of battle. Great game all around!
