Relic is at it again stretching the life of their 2004 Game of the Year winner, the RTS "Dawn of War" set in the richly detailed universe of Warhammer 40'000. The latest salvo is the upcoming "Dark Crusade" expansion which in a stroke of genius can be installed as a stand-alone product (for new players to get in on the action, of course). So basically, what Relic has done is released a sequel with the same game engine as before. However, qualifying it as an "expansion", the package also contains unlockables like new units for existing armies, etc.Check out videos and stuff here at IGN.
And of course download the demo here at download.com!
The demo follows the same tutorial as usual but with a few tweaks to the narration explaining what differentiates the Tau. Unfortunately the Necron are not available in the demo (not that it alters anything - this is enough to give us a taste of the game). The demo also includes a couple of skirmish missions to play with. But you won't get very far.
Firstly the demo is crippled - some Tau units are outright unavailable. You are limited to a SkyRay missile tank for vehicles. You can check out a Crisis Suit but only one at a time. And if I understood correctly, one of the two tech trees are completely cut off (that's one of the new features for the new Tau race - you get to choose a strategy mid-game and then build one of two resources that leads you down differing styles of play - offensive or defensive).
Secondly, there's a new win-scenario (or new to me anyway). The AI seems a lot smarter and faster and takes advantage of a capture-more-than-50%-of-resource-points. I was seconds from winning with "Annihilation" rules but the countdown for resources timed out on me - I lost the skirmish because I hadn't been capturing enough resource points!
Anywho I'm excited. A little biased because I play Tau in the traditional table-top version of WH40K. It's again more of the same, but those little tweaks promise to refresh the DoW experience all over again for the 3rd year running.
1 comment:
Looks cool! Too bad I suck at video games these days!
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