Dawn of War 2: Chaos Rising Expansion Gone Gold, Pre-Order Bonuses Detailed
Playable with or without a copy of the original Dawn of War II (PC), the $29.99 expansion packs a new fifteen-mission single-player campaign, a higher level cap (from 20 to 30), new items, new units, new multiplayer maps, and a new playable army: the Chaos Space Marines.
In addition, THQ has pulled back the curtain on the game's pre-order bonuses. Those that pre-order from Steam, Best Buy, GameStop, GameTap or Metaboli net a free copy of open-world gangbuster sim Saints Row 2 PC, while those that pre-order from THQ.com get both Saints Row 2 PC and a "Librarian Wargear Pack" for Dawn of War II.
And for those interested, there's a hour-long gameplay video hosted over on Xfire.
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Jonathan
replyThat pre-order is pretty weak. It's not really focused on people who might buy an RTS and the game isn't highly thought of on the PC. Surprising that THQ kept the better stuff for itself. Combine this with the lack of DLC support shown so far and I'm probably going to wait until it's a bit cheaper.
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Er what? The lack of DLC support? The original DoW2 got two or three huge free content packs. One of them added a new co-op styled mode to the game. That's a lack of DLC support?!
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They also added a huge map pack. I know the game shipped with very few maps initially, but any other dev could've just left it there but Relic went on and like tripled the number of maps over time.
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Relic's model is to sell a game, then keep it alive with expansion packs. They needed to keep the community alive in order to make the expansion packs worth while.
Leaving the game in a very unbalanced state with around 6 maps would have caused it to die out long before Chaos Rising was released...
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