I can't believe they castrated DoW like this. The campaign is ONLY for the marines? WTF? No base building? Can only have like 4 squads EVER? They should've released this game as something else, preferably on a console, and made a REAL DoW2. There are a lot of us out there that don't play multiplayer, meaning we won't really get to play with all of the other races as extensively as we do the stupid humans. They finally add the 'nids to the DoW universe, but remove the DoW game. Fail.
You still have the skirmish option if you dislike Space Marines campaign so much.
Oh and by the way just wait and see how the second Starcraft's campaign works. You'll realize that DOW2 is closer to the future of the genre than anything else.
I just started playing the game. Whereas the game is indeed enjoyable, and the graphics are great, it's still not Dawn of WAR to me. Dawn of minor skirmishes, maybe. They've removed all by four of the factions, there is only one campaign (albeit a long one) and limiting you to four squads is highly annoying, to say the least. It IS fun to level your squads and give them gear, but it's still just a hollow shell of what DoW2 COULD have been.
For one, I played the original Warcraft when it came out, just FYI. Secondly, I KNOW how the original DoW worked. I played that game probably three times all the way through. But there have been, what, 3 expansions since? DoW2 should've expanded upon Soulstorm's campaign style, or even just kept it the same. Relic is essentially doing the same thing to Warhammer that Microprose did to X-COM.
[Edited by endersblade, 3/9/2009 5:49:11 PM]
I so agree.. I luved the 3 first DoW, the base building and setting up some nasty defenses, and then hammer the **** out my enemy .
DoW2 is just not the same, not even close, I have played all the other DoW games with all races, except for Soul Storm, where I didnt play 2 or 3 of them. I will prob not play thru DoW2, it is just not fun with 4 by 4 squads and no way of getting more (or less).
I will maybe cheat my way thru the game, just to get the end story.
I 2 played X-Com I still do from time to time. But X-Com enforser.. OMFG what was they thinking.
If it aint broke, DONT FIX IT
Ohh.. And the part with MUST have STEAM to play a singleplayer game, and have a accout at Windows Live just ****ed me off. Made want to pirate the game rather than to buy it. If this bacomes the trend with new games I will do so, less hasle.