Warhammer 40,000 Dawn Of War 2 ???

Po IGN-ovom izveštaju, u jednom belgijskom časopisu o kompijuterskim igrama, otkriveno je da su Relic kompanija, i THQ izdavačka kuća već uveliko u Warhammer 40,000 Dawn Of War 2 projektu. Da, da, dobro ste čuli, fenomenalna strategija Warhammer ipak dobija svoj nastavak. Kako se saznaje, iz istog časopisa, objavljeno je da se na ovom projektu radi još od septembra 2006. godine i da će novo poglavlje ove igre koristiti DirectX 10 grafičke karte, kao i dual core procesore najnovije generacije. Igra će imati i mogućnost koperativnog igranja kampanje sa Orkovima i Svemirskim Marincima. Izlazak Warhammer 40,000 Dawn Of War 2 naslova za sada zvanično nije poznat, no pojedini izvori tvrde da se isti očekuje negde tokom 2009. godine.

Elementi koji nas očekuju u ovom naslovu:

– Uses the Essence 2.0 engine with Havok physics, all optimised for DX10 and multicore support.
– It looks great, think of the DoW intro but with a bit less polygons here and there (in terms of lighting and all that it looks almost exactly the same).
– Units also use CoH-like unit AI for awareness and pathfinding to find cover and such.
– While DoW 2 shares the same (upgraded probably) engine as CoH[ it won't be "CoH in space", while soldiers in CoH will ask themselves if flanking the enemy is the right option, in DoW2 it will be more like Space Marines asking themselves if they should use their jetpacks to jump over an Ork squad to attack them in the back. Different settings, different kinds of warfare.
– Preview only showed a destroyed city landscape, akin to DoW (but more detailed), other tilesets will offer deserts, jungles, mountains and other cities.
– Only the Orkz and Space Marines were revealed, more races on the way obviously and to be to revealed later this year (though how many isn't known).
– Co-op campaign for both the Orkz and Space Marines, apparently not for the other to-be-revealed races.
– More focus on making units and squads unique; every unit has got a name (at least in the campaign it seems), more details and more animations.
– Relic wants to give players rewards at the end of a mission like wargear (armor, weapons, rare objects); "Let's pimp out squads with cool stuff!", you will see these items in-game as well of course.
– You'll fight your way through the campaign with the same squads.