Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II

Great RTS or greatest RTS?

http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3168146
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?...060608.mp3

Teaser: http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/19284
Screens: http://www.1up.com/do/media?cId=3167328&sec=IMAGES

1UP.com Wrote:Listening, I get the sense that what Noseworthy is cursing at more than anything else is the overlooked obviousness of it all. How does a developer address the poor sense of persistence, inadequate reward systems, and resulting shortage of attachment and accomplishment endemic to eye-in-the-sky strategy? Look -- like Call of Duty 4 and Battlefield 2142 and the forthcoming BattleForge -- to addictive role-playing games. Convince gamers that their time translates to material gain, however immaterial an unlockable cannon actually is.

And so Dawn of War II abandons base-building along with the need to assemble a new army from the ground up over and over again before each battle. You command the same five squads along with assorted Dreadnoughts and other tactical units -- each with a leader that Noseworthy claims "has a name and face." In turn, campaigning from planet to planet opens up War Gear perks -- chainswords, flamethrowers, warhammers, and personalized and hardened power armor. "It's 300 in space," Noseworthy says, referring to the movie and graphic novel in which 300 Spartans stop Xerxes' million-man army, and then pauses for the punchline. "We're calling it 30." Is it, though?

I've always wanted to get into RTSs and I like the Warhammer universe so this is pretty ballin'.

Read/Listen nao plz.
Just so you know, most users here don't listen to podcasts so posting them here is kind of fruitless.
Roan Wrote:Just so you know, most users here don't listen to podcasts so posting them here is kind of fruitless.
I just posted it along with everything else.

It's only half an hour long. A lot more in depth than the preview.

And don't you listen to 1UP Yours?
ADMIT YOU ARE SAM

and yeah, not all of us are big podcasters....i don't like them
incondite Wrote:
Roan Wrote:Just so you know, most users here don't listen to podcasts so posting them here is kind of fruitless.
I just posted it along with everything else.

It's only half an hour long. A lot more in depth than the preview.

And don't you listen to 1UP Yours?

I am the podcast queen of this board.

I am subscribed to over 15 of them hahahaha
Artie Wrote:ADMIT YOU ARE SAM

and yeah, not all of us are big podcasters....i don't like them
Who is Sam?