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- Platform: Windows Vista / XP
- Media: DVD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
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Manufacturer's Description
Ten years after the events of Chaos Rising and the fall of the Blood Raven’s Chapter Master to the forces of Chaos, Sub-Sector Aurelia remains in a constant state of warfare. The pirate Freebooter Orks have arrived to take advantage of this and loot the sector, the vile forces of Chaos continue to spread their blasphemy, the Eldar of Craftworld Alaitoc work to recover key artifacts from their past, and the feral Tyranids remaining from the failed Hive fleet invasion have suddently reestablished contact with the Hive mind.
Choose your race and determine the final fate of the entire sector in Dawn of War II: Retribution, the next installment in the critically acclaimed Dawn of War real-time strategy franchise.
Features:
Multi-Race Campaign
For the first time in the Dawn of War II series, choose from 6 different playable races and play through a customized single player campaign for each.
Army Builder Metagame
Upgrade your heroes and unlock new buildable units as you progress through the single player campaign.
New Super Heavy Units in Multiplayer!
Take the battle online once again in 1-6 player matches and field your new Super Heavy Units, unique to each of the 6 playable races.
Collector's Edition includes:
- Retribution PC game
- Race artcards
- Poster
- Unlockable bonus items
Product Description
Dawn Of War II Retribution - Collector's Edition Includes:
- Dawn Of War II Retribution PC game
- Race artcards
- Poster
- Unlockable bonus items
Ten years after the events of Chaos Rising and the fall of the Blood Raven's Chapter Master to the forces of Chaos, Sub-Sector Aurelia remains in a constant state of warfare. The pirate Freebooter Orks have arrived to take advantage of this and loot the sector, the vile forces of Chaos continue to spread their blasphemy, the Eldar of Craftworld Alaitoc work to recover key artifacts from their past, and the feral Tyranids remaining from the failed Hive fleet invasion have suddently reestablished contact with the Hive mind.
Choose your race and determine the final fate of the entire sector in Dawn of War II Retribution, the next installment in the critically acclaimed Dawn of War real-time strategy franchise.
- Multi-Race Campaign
- For the first time in the Dawn of War II series, choose from 6 different playable races and play through a customized single player campaign for each
- Army Builder Metagame
- Upgrade your heroes and unlock new buildable units as you progress through the single player campaign
- New Super Heavy Units in Multiplayer!
- Take the battle online once again in 1-6 player matches and field your new Super Heavy Units, unique to each of the 6 playable races
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
LOVE IT!!!
Being a big fan of the previous Dawn of War 2's I was really looking forward to playing the other races in the campaign, and im yet to be disappointed! I love how the campaign follows roughly the same story line, and how you can choose 6 different outcomes for the sub-sector! BRILLIANT!!
The new paint scheme editor is really useful how you can take a look at all the units and see what they are like in your colour scheme. And the graphics just make it brilliant!
Overall then, best game I've bought in ages!!
Being a big fan of the previous Dawn of War 2's I was really looking forward to playing the other races in the campaign, and im yet to be disappointed! I love how the campaign follows roughly the same story line, and how you can choose 6 different outcomes for the sub-sector! BRILLIANT!!
The new paint scheme editor is really useful how you can take a look at all the units and see what they are like in your colour scheme. And the graphics just make it brilliant!
Overall then, best game I've bought in ages!!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
This game is a massive let down in comparison to the previous dawn of war 2 games such as Chaos is Rising expansion pack and the first Dawn of War 2 game.
You are paying for a game with exactly the same unit choices as in the previous games, except that each race has a new unit. You may say that this is not true as you get a new race to play with, Imperial Guard. However I'm not even going to bother to class this as a race, as the hero choices for the race are lacking in depth and character both in game and on basic looks. Furthermore, the actual units you get are appalling to play with and are useless in game. The way the units are structured is again poor and lacking in imagination, as each of the units is supposed to fill out a certain role and yet they simply fail at this when compared with the same kind of units from other races. The heavy weapon teams are poor, the basic guardsmen are worse than useless in a fight and you have to send masses upon masses of them to get the job done and the catachan devils which are supposed to be `effective in close combat', but they are not and the weapon choices are boring and not imaginative, even if they can be used for `every occasion.' The only redeeming factor about the Guard is the tanks which are fairly cool. But, overall the Imperial Guard are a boring race, with poorly structured tiers of troops and their heroes are dull. THEREFORE, IMPERIAL GUARD IS A RUBBISH RACE.
Personally I not a player who buys a game for the campaign, but even though you get a new campaign for each race, the missions are very similar with only slight changes every mission for each race. So again boring, also the first 4 missions for each race campaign come up with the same tips and tutorial messages that are deeply patronising and make the assumption that you have the brainpower of a Nat.
The graphics if anything have only got worse and that seem to have reduced the effectiveness of many of the abilities in previous games. Furthermore, they now have a big thick red bar that denotes the unit's health which demotes the combat system of the game as it makes it less realistic and more like a game.
In conclusion, the game is not worth the money. At first I was hesitant about buying it, but I liked the previous two games and couldn't resist buying the next one on. However, after a few hours of game play I realised that I had had good reason to be hesitant, as the game play has been worsened the new race is to be frank rubbish and the campaigns are dull and unimaginative. So, a poor job and a real let down for me personally, as I have never written a review before, but this game was so utterly poor that I just had to warn other innocent gamers like me not to buy this appalling rip off of a game and to instead play another RTS such as Star craft 2 or maybe even go back to the Chaos is rising expansion.
You are paying for a game with exactly the same unit choices as in the previous games, except that each race has a new unit. You may say that this is not true as you get a new race to play with, Imperial Guard. However I'm not even going to bother to class this as a race, as the hero choices for the race are lacking in depth and character both in game and on basic looks. Furthermore, the actual units you get are appalling to play with and are useless in game. The way the units are structured is again poor and lacking in imagination, as each of the units is supposed to fill out a certain role and yet they simply fail at this when compared with the same kind of units from other races. The heavy weapon teams are poor, the basic guardsmen are worse than useless in a fight and you have to send masses upon masses of them to get the job done and the catachan devils which are supposed to be `effective in close combat', but they are not and the weapon choices are boring and not imaginative, even if they can be used for `every occasion.' The only redeeming factor about the Guard is the tanks which are fairly cool. But, overall the Imperial Guard are a boring race, with poorly structured tiers of troops and their heroes are dull. THEREFORE, IMPERIAL GUARD IS A RUBBISH RACE.
Personally I not a player who buys a game for the campaign, but even though you get a new campaign for each race, the missions are very similar with only slight changes every mission for each race. So again boring, also the first 4 missions for each race campaign come up with the same tips and tutorial messages that are deeply patronising and make the assumption that you have the brainpower of a Nat.
The graphics if anything have only got worse and that seem to have reduced the effectiveness of many of the abilities in previous games. Furthermore, they now have a big thick red bar that denotes the unit's health which demotes the combat system of the game as it makes it less realistic and more like a game.
In conclusion, the game is not worth the money. At first I was hesitant about buying it, but I liked the previous two games and couldn't resist buying the next one on. However, after a few hours of game play I realised that I had had good reason to be hesitant, as the game play has been worsened the new race is to be frank rubbish and the campaigns are dull and unimaginative. So, a poor job and a real let down for me personally, as I have never written a review before, but this game was so utterly poor that I just had to warn other innocent gamers like me not to buy this appalling rip off of a game and to instead play another RTS such as Star craft 2 or maybe even go back to the Chaos is rising expansion.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
For Dawn Of War fans this is an absolute must. Not only does it bring another popular race to the table - the Imperial Guard - but adds a number of new units to the existing races to add to the slaughter. The campaign is good fun (even better with a friend thanks to co-op) but now you can play it with the race of your choosing. Multiplayer is still brutal and unforgiving as ever, so if that's not your cup of tea then there is still the brilliant The Last Stand mode to satiate your online requirements.
It's worth mentioning that the Collectors Edition comes with special war gear for each race, normally available as paid DLC on Steam so it comes at a bargain price on Amazon. Also Relic have ditched Games For Windows Live in favour of the Steam overlay which makes inviting friends a much easier task.
Overall a brilliant addition to the Dawn Of War franchise, crafted with the passion and dedication you'd expect from a top developer. Nice one, Relic.
It's worth mentioning that the Collectors Edition comes with special war gear for each race, normally available as paid DLC on Steam so it comes at a bargain price on Amazon. Also Relic have ditched Games For Windows Live in favour of the Steam overlay which makes inviting friends a much easier task.
Overall a brilliant addition to the Dawn Of War franchise, crafted with the passion and dedication you'd expect from a top developer. Nice one, Relic.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Nice
Great game and fun.
Really like the last stand mode.
The collector's Edition comes with a poster, postcards and bonus unlockables at a very nice price.
Really like the last stand mode.
The collector's Edition comes with a poster, postcards and bonus unlockables at a very nice price.
Published 4 months ago by Yaure
Good Game
Right I bought this as I am a Die Hard Warhammer fan and plus I want to collect. Collector editions of games. Arrived nice and quickly undamaged. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Christopher Allen Sharp
Better than starcraft2
I felt Dawn of war two was better & of course the original Dawn of War but all in all quite enjoyed this game & I felt it was far better than Starcraft two. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mr. W. Hobson
Looks BLOODY good!!!!!
This game looks awesome, best of the best, I have'nt got it yet, but It looks absolute kick ass.I'm gettin it for my birthday this year and I'm really excited about it! Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mrs. T. Whisker
great
I had the two previous games and was expecting an add-on, however it is a seperate game. Still great fun and great story. Pity about it not being on windows tho.
Published 6 months ago by sparky666
Oh how far we have fallen
My summary of Retribution: Stagnant, soulless & without merit. I'm not even sure it has any of the S in RTS left.
Lets' recap. Read more
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Published 7 months ago by J. Hotchkiss
Boring and unrewarding
What i loved the most about Dawn of War II and its expansion pack was the ability to watch your characters grow and develop as the campaign progressed. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mr. J. Archer
Barely worthy of DLC, let alone a full game
I'm really glad I waited for this to come down in price and even then it wasn't really worth the outlay, I'd hate to have paid the full release price for it. Read more
Published 8 months ago by SoS
Not worth hard earned money
I have to be honest, I feel like I was ripped off with this game. The campaign is the same regardless of race, sure the story changes a tiny bit to accommodate each race, but you... Read more
Published 8 months ago by MunKy
Great game
Great game, good campaign choices and storylines, and the multiplayer options are improved from the earlier Dow 2 versions. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Vito of the Don
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