Dawn of War Definitive Edition - The return of the King

[KenaiPhoenix]

Relic finally remastered the, imo, best RTS of all time: Dawn of War, putting all expansion packs together and updating the game to 64-bits (which will help A LOT for the modding community that has been struggling with the ram usage).

But now that I have give it a spin for a couple of hours I have to say that is not only incredibly fun, but also a great game to spent some time with friends. Now that everyone is on the same game (previously some played one of the 2 last expansions, either Dark Crusade or Soul Storm) there is no split in the population and thank to good QoL improvements like bigger FOV, the online scene is incredible.

And for everyone that havent heard about this game, Dawn of War is an RTS created by Relic (Company of Heroes, in fact is really similar) which has a incredible presentation with great effects and animations. The game is heavily designed to get you into the action, so it is way more similar to StarCraft than Age of Empires.

For anyone that loves RTS, I highly recommend give this one try.

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

FOR THE EMPEROR!

 

[Ezri_Muldoon]

Oh the remaster actually includes all of the original games expansions. That's neat.
Especially as It feels like the only Soulstorm apologist left in the world.
I liked the bolted on Risk/Planetary conquest map.

But I vividly remember Dawn of War 3.
Then there was Company of heroes 3.

No sell. Relic Entertainment has to do more than a stop gap remaster to regain my trust.
Especially after Total War Warhammer raised the bar beyond the stratosphere.
Dawn of War may have once held the title of best video game representation of the tabletop experience.
It does not hold such prestige now.

 

[ThatOneLum]

I just got my hands on this the other day and have to admit I'm having a blast.

Its not much of a shock considering how insanely popular this game is, but I deffo feel like this remaster is going to help a bunch of new people discover the franchise.

Personally, I'd like to see them do something similar with the older Warcraft titles like 1/2 but considering how shitty 3 remastered was maybe I shouldn't be wishing for it.