Dawn of War 2

[repiV]

I didn't even realise this had been released, but apparently it's been out for months.

Is it good? Is it popular? I don't really follow these things anymore but I used to spend many a long night playing the original. I might just have to pick it up if it has a following.

 

[Acepilotf14]

Meh.
It was very, very, meh.

Wasn't like the first at all, lots of flaws, and they got a lot of shit for it. I enjoyed single player, but that's really all I could take. I went back to the original.

 

[B_MAN]

picked it up recently where the 50% off sale was going on....
can't say much in comparison to the first games because i never played them

but, so far, i'm having alot of fun playing the campaign in co-op
each of 2 players get to control 2 squads (sometimes 3)
the 2nd to hardest difficulty is providing a nice challenge for us and i really like how you acquire items and gain experience (points)

my only complaint so far is that the cover system, unlike COH, seems to serve no purpose at all. i mean it seems as though a squad in the open loses health at the same rate as one that's in full cover (green)
also, a little more mission variety would be nice

gonna try online matches tonight

 

[Murray]

I would have played it more if I had more people I knew to play it with, but as it turned out, I was the only one in my neighbourhood that bought it. I was a bit surprised seeing as me and my friends have been playing the previous DoW game plus its' expansions. (Winter Assault, Dark Crusade, Soulstorm).

 

[repiV]

Hmm. Do people still play the original? I never picked up Soulstorm, I actually haven't played any games at all in over a year, but that's more out of apathy than anything else. My PC is probably shit by today's standards, the internet connection here is beyond hopeless and I basically can't be arsed to set everything up.

I fondly remember many marathon sessions of Dark Crusade, however!

 

[Rico]

I have DoW 2, although I haven't touched it since I put it down about halfway through the campaign. I never tried MP outside of the demo, as I wanted to get a feel for the game first. I'm thinking about going back and doing some MP to get my money's worth, but I'm currently enthralled by Red Faction Guerrilla

 

[Paulaner]

Do people still play the original?!

Oh yes, I do. The original is well balanced and very funny. Dawn Of War 2 is an average game without personality. They stripped a lot of good gameplay elements and left us with a dumbed down version, in my humble opinion. Is it a trend, to remove the base building elements and to turn the game into a real time tactical combat? (C&C4, I'm looking at you) Well, it doesn't work for me.

 

[repiV]

No base building? Sounds a bit cack...

I remember the online community always being fairly small for the most part, have a lot of people come back to the game?

Used to love playing 2v2v2v2. Sometimes the game would go on for over four hours and it was just epic. :E

 

[B_MAN]

for those of you that bought the game early on and gave up on it, a HUGE update was released recently with a bunch of balance changes and the like
worth taking another look

 

[Viperidae]

Hahhahahahah.

Hey guess what. All the guys who worked on DoW1? None of them made DoW2.

And zing, Relic dies.

 

[Lucid]

Horrible game, huge disappointment.

Pretty much a simplified squad based version of Company of Heroes with fairly heavy RPG elements.

 

[Shift]

Awful game. Gives the original DoW a bad name.

Play that or CoH instead.

 

[Gargantou]

I bought it this weekend and I liked the single-player, but as others have said, multiplayer was a huge collect of BLEUGH.

 

[repiV]

Hmm I won't bother with that one then.

I remember there used to be loads of good games, 5-10 yrs ago, but then there became less and less of them. The singleplayer games started becoming more uninteresting and then the style of multiplayer game I like went from being what it was all about to obscurity (Quake 3 and ultra-competitive games like that...).

I might have to check out Soulstorm though.

 

[Ennui]

DOWII is actually quite a good game, but doesn't have a very good MP community and suffers from being a little too simple. It does feel like a smaller, dumbed down version of COH mixed with Warcraft 3 in the future with a lot more RPG elements like upgrading items for your hero etc. I haven't really been able to have much fun onlnine but single player and skirmish against AI are both pretty enjoyable in my opinion.

I would rate it as worse than DOW or COH but still enjoyable. Probably not worth $50 though. On that note do any of you HL2netters want to play some MP DOW2 at some point? I'm probably total rubbish against a human but it'd be nice to play a real game of it.

 

[Lucid]

Soulstorm is pretty shit too.
Pointless and boring new races/units and the new campaign is just a rehash of DC's.

But, if you can find it cheap enough, I'd say go for it if you're a completionist.

 

[Ennui]

I played Soulstorm less than Winter Assault even. IMO the only truly worthwhile expansion was DC. I still love vanilla DOW too.

 

[Lucid]

Yeah, DC is the best DOW expansion, easily.