Alright, that was weird. I just hit enter after the title, and I accidentally published the post.
To be completely honest, nothing really has changed since the last post. Besides the fact that it was my birthday on February 26th.
I haven't blogged in a while, because there has been nothing to talk about. Before I used to just talk about random shit, but why waste other people's time?
So I guess I'll review Dawn of War II.
Dawn of War II is a great game, but don't let the name throw you off; its a Warhammer game. Yes, we all know that Warhammer may be a nerdy game, but this isn't like the Warhammer everyone knows. If you know what Dawn of War II is, then you're in the clear, and skip a few lines. This is not medieval at all, this is based in the future. The game is called Warhammer 40K or 40,000 whatever. So to put it past everything, it's basically like Warcraft 3 and Starcraft mixed. You have your hero units, and you have your normal units. However, it's not entirely what you may think it will be. The game itself is classified as an RTS, but you do not build anything. It's a great game for new people to the RTS genre, so they can just pick it up and play, and learn to get better. In a classic RTS like Starcraft where you build buildings and such, can frustrate someone, however, this is pretty basic. Ill start with Campaign. In Campaign, its pretty simple, just do the objective. Do I have complaints? No, the game is pretty damn straight forward. I'm not too far myself, but all I know so far is that Im the space marines, and Im flipping back and forth between two planets right now, and i know theres a 3rd out there. So anyways, multiplayer. At first i was disapointed. You go to custom game, and you will barely find anygames. I think the reason for this, is because it runs on Xbox Live, and people may need to pay for a Gamertag, i do not know of this for sure. Another thing, is the game was just released a couple weeks ago, so it is still new, but still, shouldn't that mean there should be more people online? Anyways, i just started to play more online today, and i found that there were a lot more games up and running, and i finally tried Ranked games. Ranked games are your standard matchmaking.
Alright, into gameplay. I know you're wondering, if you dont build, what do you do? Well, heres where it gets challenging. You have to capture little objectives on your map, which gets you more resources. Requisition is basically your gold, and Power is your vespene gas, or lumber, or whatever the scarce material is in a standard RTS. When you capture these points, it increases the number of points you get per minute. In a 3v3 match, this is good, because it benefits the whole team. Plus, you do not share resources at all with your team, meaning if you spend 500 req. on a tacticle team, it doesnt take money from them; which is pretty straight forward. There are 2 game variations, Victory Capture, and Annihilation. Annihilation, just kill everything. Victory capture, there are 3 victory points, and you start with 500 points, and when it reaches zero, you lose. What really sucks, is when the other team has 2 points captured, and heavily guarded, and you only got 1; then you're boned.
There's not really much more to add to this really. Its a really fun game, there's 4 races, with 3 different heroes. I'd have to give this game an 8.5/10. It's really fun, but there are some tiny things that they could add, like, a control changing option, i dont want to hold ALT to rotate the map, i want to press the middle mouse button. Anyways, its a great game, good price too, pick it up if your pc can run it.
And check out
David Firth's Blogspot, he's a pretty cool guy.
Incase of a broken link, here it is here:
http://meadowman.blogspot.com/
For the sake of saying things, it's been said.
-Qw3rty
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