The Warhammer 40K franchise has never been more popular. Space Marine II paves the way for game studios to focus more, and the upcoming series adaptations are waiting. In this Chaos (get it?), developer Relic does something that many people ask for for a long time, and they bring back the original Dawn of War RTS game in a slightly updated version.
This is actually not the first time trying something like this. You may be like me, playing Dawn of War Anniversary Edition before, but quickly gave up on it because it’s ugly and poorly optimized for modern hardware. It wasn’t the epic experience we expected at all. However, the idea of including all the extra expansion packs in one game is still great.
Now it’s Definitive Edition, first of all, it’s better optimized. However, you quickly realize that despite the fact that assets have been amplified to 4K (which is of course popular), they can’t do much with the basic geometry of the character model that is still completely wrong and looks like something I made with clay modeling in my fourth grade. So it’s important to adjust your expectations again because it’s not the recovery itself and we’re still waiting.
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That is, this is a major upgrade in many ways. Although the game is over 20 years old, it looks to be tolerant and has added many modern graphic elements. That’s why it’s a pity that didn’t make a more drastic change. For example, the game’s unit cap has not changed, although the computer is now more powerful.
Not only do these improvements make it possible to play the game without any problem on modern systems, but your unit also acts smarter when running around, which I remember being a real problem in the original. However, I think it’s nice that I can see now what the icon should look like, and there’s already criticism here. But again, this is not a fix, so to speak, this is an update.
Even with this in mind, there are faults everywhere. There is still no achievement system, which is a shame, because there should be one. This is a lot of “40K books” that want to reach the elusive 100% of the game, and it does seem like the minimum you can expect as a fan.
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There is a tutorial that crashes repeatedly for me and I’m never allowed to try again. Everything freezes when there is a conversation in the game, and it’s not always logical to save the system. But at least there are still “inspirational” quotes every time you log in.
I’ve played this before actually posting so I haven’t tried the mods, but this should be included and fully supported. It has a pretty big community, and if you’re a 40K book, there’s a lot to dig deeper into, and there’s no doubt that mods are built into the game from the start, which is a plus.
Priced at $30, if you own Anniversary Edition you can get a 30% discount. If I play this game half the number of times I play the original, it’s acceptable, especially since many mods – as it promises – can also run in this version without changing. Spend this money and you will get a Warhammer 40K game in its best condition, with a very good dubbing, still enduring, with the joy of sending your troops into death, knowing that this is what they were born to do, so there is no guilty conscience.
My family has issued a Relic death threat because it took up my extremely limited time, but I dug out my Imperial Guard helmet and has now been upgraded to 4K. This is just the best form of the RTS type, and while Relic could have done more, they can, and the work they do works well overall and at a lower price, it’s hard not to recommend it.
