Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II Chaos Rising
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
The player's squads cut down human, Ork, Eldar and Tyranid enemies with gunfire, explosives and melee, spraying blood and leaving corpses on the battlefield.
The player's heavy weapons and melee attacks gib and dismember enemies, blowing bodies apart into pieces during combat.
The story turns on betrayal within the player's own chapter and the corruption of its warriors, set in a bleak war of extermination where oppression and cruelty drive the plot.
Chaos forces summon daemons and the plot centres on corruption by the dark Chaos gods, with demonic symbols and ritual imagery depicted by enemy characters.
Unsettling grimdark imagery appears — summoned daemons and swarming bio-alien Tyranids — but nothing hunts the player or is timed to startle them.
Gruff military banter between the marine sergeants includes mild exclamations such as 'damn' and 'hell'.
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What it is
This is a squad-based real-time tactics game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, where the player leads a small band of Space Marine sergeants against the forces of Chaos across a series of missions. Rather than building bases, you pick a handful of squads, position them in cover and fight pitched battles, with each leader gaining experience, new abilities and looted wargear as an RPG-style progression. Combat is heavy and gory: squads shoot, blast and hack apart human, alien and daemonic foes, with abundant blood and enemies torn apart in close-quarters kills. The expansion adds a corruption mechanic in which the player's own marines can slide toward Chaos, gaining daemonic powers and equipment as the story deals with betrayal and the fall of once-loyal warriors. The setting is bleak and militaristic throughout, steeped in supernatural Chaos imagery, daemon summoning and warp sorcery.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence as a righteous crusade: the player's Blood Ravens are cast as defenders purging a corrupting enemy, and killing is rewarded with experience and gear. Chaos and its corruption are presented as a seductive but ruinous temptation, and the optional slide toward daemonic power is treated in the narrative as a fall rather than a triumph, with consequences for the chapter's warriors.
Details
- Developer
- Relic Entertainment
- Publisher
- SEGA
- Released
- Mar 11, 2010
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