THQ y Relic Entertainment acaban de anunciar el desarrollo de Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 2, secuela del aclamado videojuego que ya ha recibido tres expansiones. A continuación os resumimos las características más importantes de esta continuación, que aprovechará DX10 al máximo para ofrecernos una calidad gráfica sin precedentes dentro de la franquicia. Desde septiembre de 2006, 55 personas de Relic se están encargando de su desarrollo, para lanzarlo bien entrado 2009. El engine gráfico será el Essence 2.0, que al parecer es una versión mejorada de lo visto en el espectacular Company of Heroes. Habrá soporte para Havok, lo que permitirá que el escenario se destruya completamente, así como soporte para procesadores multicore. El resto de detalles de la campaña cooperativa, razas y demás, los podéis ver desde aquí, mientras esperamos las primeras imágenes y tráiler de este título.
Fuente
http://pc.hardgame2.com/index.php?zone=news&mod=noticia&id=38621
Translations for a Belgium PC Gaming magazine floating around with info about Dawn of War 2.
- Uses the Essence 2.0 engine with Havok physics, all optimized for DX10 and multicore support.
- 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.
- 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.
- A squad leader (one or several?) will need to survive if you want to complete a mission; you really have to look out for your squads and don’t treat them like cannon fodder.
- The campaign lets Space Marines operate from a spaceship, you’ll get a view of an underlying planet and you’ll be able to choose from different missions (which are tagged with difficulty colors, green, blue and red).
- Certain reward items won’t be usable at once in the campaign, so they’ll be taken back to the SM spaceship for research.
- Release in early 2009 or later.
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Imagenes
http://img.hardgame2.net/noticias/fiesta20/seargant_k_by_cheolijoo_lee4_redimensionar.jpg
http://b.imagehost.org/0341/dow.jpg
http://b.imagehost.org/0341/dow2.jpg
http://b.imagehost.org/0341/dow3.jpg
http://b.imagehost.org/0341/dow4.jpg
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Warhammer 40k Fight Sequence Test Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8mmv44doIo