This leads to an overall shorter campaign, but also one that feels a lot more varied and focussed in the story it’s trying to tell. Chaos Rising takes a page out of the RTS handbook by introducing mission objectives as a means to design each campaign map and encounter. This of course sounds a lot worse than it was, as the style of gameplay, following an action-RPG template, lends itself to repetition and a clear focus on the immediate battles and encounters. One of the key complaints that players had with Dawn of War II was the repetition of campaign maps and the side-missions, where templates were simply copied and pasted, leading to several identical looking missions. Chaos Rising builds on this foundation whilst addressing some of the faults that could be attributed to the relatively simplistic nature of the original game. With the core engine and battle mechanics kept similar to its RTS counterparts, with cover based tactics, flanking and use of specific unit skills, everything else was based on classic action-RPG concepts pioneered by titles like Diablo, with character levelling, loot finding, and yes, even some grinding. Dawn of War II on the other hand felt like an experiment, albeit one that paid off handsomely.
Starting with the first Dawn of War title, and perfected with their WWII based Company of War series, developer Relic helped define the 21st century real-time strategy game with a string of fantastic games that helped integrate a fully robust 3D environment with equally robust gameplay. With the rise of the Chaos Marines and corruption threatening to destroy the purity of the Space Marines’ recent victory over the Tyranids, the path to victory presented in this stand-alone expansion is literally covered with Faustian bargains - in the form of awesome loot, with awesome stats.ĭawn of War II was a definite departure from the RTS styling’s cultivated by developer Relic over recent years. Although providing tasty bonuses in attack, defence, and other stats, equipping a corrupted item will sooner or later result in Avitus, Tarkus, Thaddeus, or another one of your ‘insert name-us here-us’ party members succumbing to the forces of Chaos.
Not in the traditional sense of course, as the dilemma here takes shape in the form of armour and weaponry corrupted with the evil forces of Chaos. So, apparently even Space Marines sometimes find themselves in the middle of a moral dilemma.
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