Dawn Of War!

RuByRuBy Join Date: 2002-12-12 Member: 10732Members
<div class="IPBDescription">WH40k RTS</div> Looks like Warhammer 40k is finally going to have a video game that lives up to the original! I kinda stopped playing a couple years ago but what I've seen so far seems pretty exciting. Apparently you can play Space Marines, Chaos, Eldar and Orks, and they all have customizable colors and icons/banners.

Onto the goods,

A trailer has been released fairly recently... you can pick it up here:
<a href='http://www.thq.co.uk/download.php?ResIndex=11932' target='_blank'>50MB Quicktime</a>
<a href='http://www.thq.co.uk/download.php?ResIndex=11931' target='_blank'>19MB Quicktime</a>

A bunch of videos from E3 are available at gamespot:
<a href='http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/wh40kdawnofwar/media.html' target='_blank'>http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/wh40kd...fwar/media.html</a>

The streams are free but you need to be a paying member to download them...

And here's a pretty neat screenshot:

<img src='http://www.computerandvideogames.com/screenshots_library/dir_249/vortal_pic_124914.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

Comments

  • kuperayekuperaye Join Date: 2003-03-14 Member: 14519Members, Constellation
    yes we already know about it
  • RuByRuBy Join Date: 2002-12-12 Member: 10732Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-kuperaye+May 31 2004, 04:51 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (kuperaye @ May 31 2004, 04:51 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> yes we already know about it <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    meh, did a search before I started this topic and found one from january so I thought some people might like to see the developpement on this game.
  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    i remember the last topic was like a month ago lol

    well anyway, lookin forward to this one.
  • kuperayekuperaye Join Date: 2003-03-14 Member: 14519Members, Constellation
    its in every pcg :X
  • CForresterCForrester P0rk(h0p Join Date: 2002-10-05 Member: 1439Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-kuperaye+May 31 2004, 04:51 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (kuperaye @ May 31 2004, 04:51 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> yes we already know about it <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I didn't. Please don't assume things like that.
  • RellixRellix Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13572Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    <!--QuoteBegin-RuBy+May 31 2004, 09:58 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (RuBy @ May 31 2004, 09:58 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-kuperaye+May 31 2004, 04:51 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (kuperaye @ May 31 2004, 04:51 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> yes we already know about it <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    meh, did a search before I started this topic and found one from january so I thought some people might like to see the developpement on this game. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I think that might have been me, but im gonna buy it after i see some close to realese action, but its done by relic so itl be good.
  • Nil_IQNil_IQ Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15520Members
    That video....

    Another perfectly good set of pance RUINED!
  • MavericMaveric Join Date: 2002-08-07 Member: 1101Members
    edited May 2004
    <!--QuoteBegin-kuperaye+May 31 2004, 02:51 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (kuperaye @ May 31 2004, 02:51 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> yes we already know about it <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    <i>you</i> may know about it but i did not, until i read this thread.


    All ph33r t3h mighty Jetpacking Chainsword/Bolter Pistol Space Marines!
    I have a feeling the orks are going to get pwnt... [like so many skulks going against JP'ing marines in NS]
    <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • pardzhpardzh Join Date: 2002-10-25 Member: 1601Members
    Had no idea about it before this.

    Never really played/seen WH40k, but this looks pretty nifty, looking forward to it.
  • X_StickmanX_Stickman Not good enough for a custom title. Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15533Members, Constellation
    That guy with the powerhammer/thunderhammer w/e it's called kicked some giant dragon-like-****!

    I'm gonna buy this game simply on the basis that there's an old guy with a dutty great hammer, who smashes dragon's heads in.
  • SurgeSurge asda4a3sklflkgh Join Date: 2002-07-14 Member: 944Members
    Oh heh, I posted about this on the RO Forums. I'm really looking forward to it too.

    On a very similar note... Wow, I've never seen that screenshot of the jetpack Space Marines (Assault Squad, of course), glad I came here!
  • ChronoChrono Local flyboy Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18989Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-kuperaye+May 31 2004, 01:51 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (kuperaye @ May 31 2004, 01:51 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> yes we already know about it <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    well i didnt looks like a good game <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • Seph_KimaraSeph_Kimara Join Date: 2003-08-10 Member: 19359Members
    edited June 2004
    No Death Company? :x

    *proceeds to check the movies*

    edit: ...Did I just see a chaplain kicking the s*** out of that demon? That totally kicked ****.
  • CommunistWithAGunCommunistWithAGun Local Propaganda Guy Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15953Members
    Game looks awesome


    Kupe=owned
  • VenmochVenmoch Join Date: 2002-08-07 Member: 1093Members
    Thats onr thing about 40K while people may pass the game off as childish it has one hell of a setting and storyline behind it.

    The thing I'm most peeved about Dawn Of War though is it doesn't feature the Imperial Guard which are the coolest army settings-wise. I mean we can all sypathise with a group of men forced into a war a little more than a whole load of genetically enhanced people in huge armour.

    Plus the Imperial Guard ave tanks, and Kommissars.....
  • RuByRuBy Join Date: 2002-12-12 Member: 10732Members
    I heard the imperial guard might play a small role in the single player mode... If this game becomes popular enough I can certainly see Relic releasing an expansion with a few more races. Either that or wait for mods to come up!
  • VenmochVenmoch Join Date: 2002-08-07 Member: 1093Members
  • Nil_IQNil_IQ Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15520Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Seph Kimara+Jun 1 2004, 02:25 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Seph Kimara @ Jun 1 2004, 02:25 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> No Death Company? :x

    *proceeds to check the movies* <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Nope, the chapter in the game is a successor chapter to the Blood Angels, not the Blood Angels themselves, hence no Death Company.

    </nerd>

    I hate death company anyway for reasons which I won't go into now. *cough twentyfourinchchargerange* *cough*
  • SnidelySnidely Join Date: 2003-02-04 Member: 13098Members
    I've always wanted a decent WH40K game. I may have given it up yonks ago (me and my friend had most of the codices between us, then they made the third edition :/) but it's a good setting for a game.

    I'm wondering how the gameplay is going to turn out - I'm hoping for more RT Tactical than RT Strategy, but the video looked pretty...choatic. Very cool to be sure (those animations and models were lovely) but maybe not so fun to play. I'm reserving judgement until the demo, though, as I recognise that tactics wouldn't have made for as good a video. (:
  • Ph0enixPh0enix Join Date: 2002-10-08 Member: 1462Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Nil_IQ+Jun 1 2004, 11:17 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Nil_IQ @ Jun 1 2004, 11:17 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Nope, the chapter in the game is a successor chapter to the Blood Angels, not the Blood Angels themselves, hence no Death Company.
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    Bzzzt, wrong. They're NOT a successor chapter. For anyone interested, the DoW foums are <a href='http://forums.relicnews.com/forumdisplay.php?f=90' target='_blank'>here</a>.

    I'd also highly recommend you watch the <a href='http://www.3ddownloads.com/relicnews/Dawn%20Of%20War/DOW_E32004_gameplay_HQ.wmv' target='_blank'>E3 gameplay video</a>. You have to wait in que, and it weighs in at a hefty 141.56 mb but its <i>well</i> worth the download, being 17 minutes of juicy info.
  • SnidelySnidely Join Date: 2003-02-04 Member: 13098Members
    edited June 2004
    Cheers. I missed that. Damn my feeble brain. Time to queue.
  • Mr_JeburtOMr_JeburtO Join Date: 2003-08-29 Member: 20340Members
    havnt checked the vids yet but if u can get deamons of definatly buying it <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    played 40k since i was 6 (been 10 years now) and i just love it, and shame onto anyone who calls it childish <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • NiteowlNiteowl Join Date: 2002-09-04 Member: 1274Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    i'm not a fan of WH40k, just never got into it. know pretty much nothing about it. BUT! one of the Old Fogies works for Relic. so if you have any questions (that he's allowed to answer) i'll pass them on. he does say that he's loving working on this project <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • AldarisAldaris Join Date: 2002-03-25 Member: 351Members, Constellation
    edited June 2004
    Problem with Imperial Guard in the first game is that they're, well, rather tactically boring. Use squads as basically another layer of armour and use tanks to blown anything that moves to pieces. The 4 armies in DoW have a mix of shotty and close combat stuff, making them generally more interesting to play. What would be great would be expansion packs allowing for every army, but I doubt that would happen.

    Is anyone else expected an easter egg where you can play as Squats for a level? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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