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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Steel Book Special Edition (PC DVD)

Brand: THQ

Platform : Windows XP

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Amazon.co.uk Exclusive Sternguard War Gear Set: Sergeant Tarkus leads his Tactical Marines into the fires of battle, shrugging off massive damage. Arm him with this unique armor, bolter and grenade pack for the battle to come. Also includes the Taurans armor pattern, and four additional army painter colours
Brutal Frontline Action & Tactics: Get straight into the action and experience intense melee and devastating ranged combat. Use vicious melee sync-kills to obliterate your enemies. Outsmart your opponents using dynamic and destructible environments to suppress, flank and destroy your foes
Non-Linear Single Player Campaign: Command an elite strike force, choosing from a variety of playable races and play through that race's unique storyline, developing the skills and abilities of your squads and commander as you progress through the game
Co-Op Multiplayer: Play through the entire single-player campaign cooperatively with a friend, at any point in the game, anytime
Next Generation RTS Engine: Utilising Relic's proprietary Essence Engine 2.0 to deliver cinematic visuals, detailed graphics and special effects.

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Edition:Normal

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Rated ‏ : ‎ Ages 16 and Over
Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 18.8 x 13.72 x 1.52 cm; 226.8 Grams
Release date ‏ : ‎ 20 Feb. 2009
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001P5I2F4
Item model number ‏ : ‎ PC-WDOW2S

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WARHAMMER 40000: DAWN OF WAR 2 STEEL EDITION PC

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Dawn of War II ushers in a new chapter in the acclaimed RTS series - taking players to the brutal frontlines of war to lead an elite strike force on a mission to save the galaxy.

It's the 41st Millennium in the Sub-Sector Aurelia - a cluster of worlds on the edge of the Galaxy - where a battle of epic proportions is about to commence. Ancient races will clash across the planets that dot this section of space, battling for the greatest of stakes - not only the claim to the land and its bounty - but the fate of each race.

With a focus on fast-action RTS gameplay, Dawn of War II brings to life the science fiction universe of Warhammer 40,000 like never before. Experience the intimate brutality of battle as you play through your chosen race's epic campaign. Clash with enemies on battlefields ablaze with visceral melee and ranged combat. Lead and develop your squads from raw recruits into the most battle hardened veterans in the Galaxy.

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Sunil C.

Breaking the mold

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 January 2013

Edition: NormalVerified Purchase

Where the first series of Dawn of War games had attempted a slightly new approach to the standard RTS fair of [gather resources; grow army/base; attack; rinse-repeat], Dawn of War II has all but abandoned the precepts of traditional RTSs. Rather than gathering resources, or base-building, the game focuses almost entirely on tactical ops, with a limited number of squads, each lead by a unique squad leader. Additionally, these hero units benefit from RPG perks, such as additional armours, weapons and upgrades, earned or unlocked throughout the game.
I recommend this game for anyone who is bored of the same old RTS spiel, and would like something fresh.
Also... Dreadnoughts for the win!!!

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mr paul c nunan

COLLECTING

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 April 2013

Edition: NormalVerified Purchase

BUYING A STEEL book edition to enhance your collection is always a good idea , it only costs a few quid more ands they look the bees knees

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W. Deal

Progress

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 February 2009

Edition: NormalVerified Purchase

Dawn of War purists probably won't like this game. THQ have incorporated an action-RPG approach to the singleplayer campaign mode, with experience points, skills to raise, loot, bosses, and the like. Personally, I really like this, but some won't. The caveat of limiting the player to 4 squads for each mission forces the player to think carefully and use the squads tactically, in addition to balancing out each squad carefully to make the most of their specific abilities. The campaign itself is much more dynamic than previous entries in the franchise - the linear missions of dawn of war, or the relatively static campaign modes of Dark Crusade or Soulstorm - and features a lot of strategic decision making on the galactic map. Personally I'm having a lot of fun with Dawn of War 2.

The multiplayer component, however, maintains a striking similarity to that of the original. The graphics are a major improvement, and the addition of proper physics and garrisonable buildings as well as the streamlined play experience (no more construction of bases) make it a much sweeter experience than that of the original.

I'd recommend this to strategy fans AND fans of the action-rpg genre, as well as general sci-fi fans (dawn of war 2 is probably the best treatment of the warhammer 40,000 universe and history i've seen in a game, making it an easy contender with other sci-fi heavyweights for what is in my opinion the first time).

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Ben

Very different. Much better in many ways, but not all.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 March 2009

Edition: Normal

The first thing that struck me about this game was how you have to install from Steam, even though you get a disk. This is mildly confusing if you've never used Steam before because you have to install it in the middle of game installation. For me, there was a little trouble updating Steam before the game would download, but that was probably unique and once it was working, it all ran smoothly. Some people may complain about having to install from Steam, but I don't really think there's much justification behind complaining when a company makes it harder for you to steal their products and Steam does have its advantages, like downloading on multiple computers and easy updating, but load time isn't one of them; the game takes a long time to start through Steam. I also like the integration into Games for Windows. Having achievements and rankings and stuff is a nice little extra lifted from the console world. Graphics are also good as always; better than DoW.

Campaign gameplay is brilliant. DoW 2 combines a linear storyline (like in DoW) with world dommination style mission selection (like Soulstorm) and does it really well. I could only improve it by having a longer campaign and more available maps. The campaign doesn't give you full squads, only small 3 or 4 man squads where you choose the loadout of the sergeant or sometimes the whole squad. This fits really well with 40K background in many ways and makes sense in the storyline as well. You only get one of each of the main squad types and this combined with Company of Heros style movement, cover, terrain, weapons etc means the player has to really think; a rare and precious thing in recent games. My only real complaint would be how easy it is to clear a whole squad from a building with an explosion, rather than just killing a few members each time like in CoH. Computer AI is clever and tactics vary between the races which is a nice improvement on DoW. Same can't really be said for missions. Admittedly, there is sometimes a bonus objective like rescuing gaurdsmen or capturing generators, but these are few and far between. Most are either unlimited time missions where you simply have to cross the map and kill a boss or missions you get a limited amout of campaign days to attempt where you defend a point you have already captured from enemy incursion. Some more variation might be nice, but wargear loadouts and squad selection mean each mission can be played several very different ways.

Multiplayer was disappointing in my oppinion. Squads in multiplayer were even smaller. I didn't like the squad size, the lack of varied upgrade choices or the extremely low population cap. Terrain works very well, but tends to get completely destroyed too quickly. I personally think they went too far with cutting down on base building. Some construction should still have been possible aside from generators. Even always being able to build turrets and teleport beacons would be nice. Using generals as construction units didn't work for me either and bases are too hard to kill-especially since they are always grouped together, allowing for easy combined defence. I suppose they have to be given that you can't build anything, but I'd prefer more building and destroying to the alternative. Finally, the interface isn't very nice in multiplayer either so I can only really credit the graphics, squad AI and elimination of rushing as a decent tactic.

To sum up, the game's more than worth it for an amazing campaign, but don't go into it expecting good things from the multiplayer part.

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Andrew Paine

Big Brother is ruining it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 June 2009

Edition: Normal

I am a life long GW fan and have every PC version of their W40K games from Final Liberation & Chaos Gate to Sould Storm and I couldn't wait to get this game. I had one of the first out there and skipped work to play it for the first time.... good thing I had a day as the initial load took forever, I then had to go through a very tedious load of Steam and sign up for an account, then wait for Steam to update the game... THEN to play as I wanted I needed to load Live....by now it had lost all the fun. Then, even though I have an nVidia 8600GTS I still had to turn down the game settings so it would run. I could put up with all this junk if the game was brilliant, but as a player of COH as well, I found this game to be a poor blend of both the games. The Campaign was too easy, even at higher levels and the strict requirement to have internet connection is very tedious when you live in a village which BT has forgotten.
All in all this is very AVERAGE which is disappointing when it is from a stable of great games. I now have my money back from THQ since they do not declare the need for internet connection to play and I await the new Space Marine game with trepidation.
My View, don't bother unless you are easily pleased and really do get 8meg download!

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Sam Heard

Good, but changed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 February 2009

Edition: Normal

Really amazing game with awesome graphics, but completly changed from the original dawn or war where there were bullets flying everywhere! Much more tactical involving facing units and needing to be by support structures to reinforce etc..., and even when you have all the power nodes on the whole map captured, it takes FOREVER to build up enough to get some units. good fun though, just not as mindless as the original.
Sam

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