The Dark Angels Enter Dawn of War
April 1, 2011 by dracs
Good news for all you fans of Dawn of War 2 Retribution, THQ are releasing a new download which will allow you to play multiplayer games as my personal favourite Space Marine chapter the Dark Angels! Thats right, these dark and secretive angels of death will be marching their merry way across your computer screens come April 6th.
By the looks of things though this appears to be a purely cosmetic download, rather than bringing any changes to gameplay. The pack will bring eight new models for the multiplayer modes, which probably just means replacing certain standard Space Marine units with their Dark Angel equivalent, eg the Force Commander is replaced with Winged Helmeted glory that is the Dark Angels Company Master.
The rest of your army will also be outfitted in the Dark Angels' iconic robes as well as your vehicles getting custom designs to separate them from the average Space Marine gear.
What's your take on this guys? It costs about $7.50 (that's apparently about £4.67 in real money), but I'm unsure that I'd pay for something that won't be offering me any other game play opportunities. But would any of you be willing to pay to give your guys kick ass robes? Let us know below.
BoW Sam
Is there a Ravenwing download included with that? If they have the green armour, Deathwing robes and Dread, there must be Ravenwing, and a Master Of the Ravenwing on a Jetbike-surely? If not, it’s poo! 🙂
Due to the price I think I’m going to pass this one up and wait for one of my favorite chapters (like Space Wolves or Black Templars). If they do a IG full Catachan or Death Korps of Krieg regiments, I’ll defiantly look in to those.
There is already a Death Korps of Krieg regiments mod out there, that replaces the imperial guard, http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?253393-Death-Korps-of-Krieg-Release-Shuma-s-Wargear-Room%28Ranked-compatible-Mods!%29 think thats it, but if you look round the DOW 2 forums you should find it.
I did get that mod and it’s pretty good, it’s just that I don’t like that it replaces all the Guard with Death Korps so if Im fighting other IG players, they will all be using Death Korps soldiers too. I would like to be able to use the Death Korps against some normal Cadians. Also clicking normal Death Korps soldiers and hearing the say “Cadians are always ready” throughs me off a little.
THQ makes great games. So i give my share of monies to them 🙂
Seriously they except you to pay for a new skin, WTF?????????? This is just like the horse armor for Elder Scrolls Oblivion! This adds no new gameplay or does anything but change the skins, it should be a free DLC. If it added any gamplay changes or dark angel specfic units and rules and upgrades then maybe. Also there is most likely a mod out there that already adds these for free, i remember downloading a mod, with most of the space marine chapters included, correct colour schemes etc Dark angels most likely included. So no won’t be getting, THQ/Relic… Read more »
I’d just wait till they bring out a heap of them and buy them all in a pack when it goes on special.
they should [naughty word expunged] this off and do something decent like a horus heresy campaign,primarchs and the emperor included!
Well Dawn of war Series put out by THQ is top shelf I dig them all…
I’m glad to see them continue to add content as opposed to being fickle and stating what they should or should not do. When we cant get together for a table top battle we usually meet up on Dawn of War and go at it to get our fix. The solo back story is pretty good as well 🙂
Its a perfect fit for the crew when we can’t make it happen for a get together…
If you look a the price of the game right now at $29.99. You are spending a forth of the price for only a new multiplayer race, which is a variation of Space Marines. They only did some minor changes to the Space Marines and said it’s a different chapter and they want 7.50 for it. No thanks, for now. I’ll wait till they release more DLC and see if they make it available as a package.