Dozens of units exchanged glittering laser fire on an icy world. The battle I saw was comparable to a large-scale Dawn of War 1 encounter. Gabriel Angelos returns to lead the Blood Ravens, and he'll tee off against an Eldar Farseer and an Ork Warlord. All of the factions have their own collection of heroes, elites, super units and super abilities that you develop over the course of the story.
The campaign moves between factions from mission to mission as each army converges on the same planet to retrieve a mysterious weapon. Three races have been revealed: Space Marines, Orks and Eldar. For the full scoop check out the next issue of PC Gamer, which comes with a free Steam key for Dawn of War 2 and eight pages on the demo I saw at Relic headquarters recently.įor now, let's take a direct look at what's new in the sequel, which aims to merge the best aspects of Dawn of War 1 and 2 into Relic's biggest, most colourful RTS yet.
