The single-player campaign is truly something epic, with multiple mission options that keep you coming back.

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 2  takes what I thought of the real-time strategy genre and transforms it.  This is definitely the good kind of transformation, it’s the Optimus Prime kind of transformation.  Dawn of War 2 is a lot of fun, and when I turned the game off I wanted to come back.

Dawn of War 2 (DOW2) introduces you to the game in a way that’s fairly intuitive and weaves the entrance of characters into the introduction of gameplay.  You start out with the Force commander along with Tarkus and his squad of Blood Ravens. The game mixes tutorial with action and allows you to click on bubbles to better inform yourself.  (This can definitely be good when learning about making sure your units have cover, because it allows them to deal damage while deftly protected.)

It transforms the traditional RTS mode, because you’re not going to build a base and manage resources in the single-player game.  Dawn of War 2 subtracts the town-building elements of the RTS genre and ramps up the warfare. (more…)