Admittedly, this does in practice involve having exactly the same missions and cutscenes for the most part, but Chaos, Orks, Tyranids, Eldar, Space Marines and the newly-added Imperial Guard are each blessed by plenty of talking heads and a tailored skill tree and loot selection of their own. No lone campaign focused only on the troubled Space Marine chapter the Blood Ravens here - instead, each of the now six playable factions gets its own turn at storytime. Retribution? Superultrabution, more like. For all the apparent laser-focusing of this second DOW2 standalone add-on's title and plot setup, in fact it's just a giant, enthusiastic explosion of future-war.

Past a certain point, after a few expansion packs, a few more playable races and an armour-plated mountain of added features, there's just so much stuff in there that the game has little option but to seek total excess. It happened with Dawn of War 1, now it's happening with the RPG-tinged sequel. Consider me your Dreadnought of truthiness.Īh, we're at that stage again. Should you, though? Well, that's where the following words come in. With a bit of luck, you can purchase Relic's sci-fi RTS/RPG mash-up from the likes of Steam and Direct2Drive right now, and if you can't you should have access on the 4th, online and at retail. This hasn't enjoyed the pan-continental release date it should have done, despite being so inherently online a title. Depends on where you are and where you download from, basically. The second Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II expansion, Retribution, launched yesterday.

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