Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution
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| Developer(s) | Relic Entertainment, Feral Interactive (Mac OS and Linux) |
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THQ (former) Sega (current) |
| Designer(s) | Daniel Kading |
| Engine | Essence Engine 2.0 |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, Cloud (OnLive), Mac OS, Linux |
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| Genre(s) | Tactical role-playing game, Real-time tactics (Campaign, The Last Stand), Real-time strategy (Skirmish) |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, Cooperative, Multiplayer |
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| GameRankings | 81.65% |
| Metacritic | 82% |
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Retribution is the stand-alone second expansion to Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, part of the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War series of real-time strategy computer games. Set in Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 fictional universe, the single player campaign is playable with multiple races.
Imperial Guard is introduced as a new race, and all races including the races from the original game and the first expansion (the Eldar, the Space Marines, Chaos, the Orks and the Tyranids) are now playable in single-player.
On September 15, 2010 Relic Entertainment announced that Retribution would be dropping the Games for Windows - LIVE multiplayer platform in favor of using Steamworks as its primary and only platform., and the new multiplayer platform does not communicate with the old LIVE platform. This makes the game entirely stand-alone with all the races included (unlike Chaos Rising, which required the original Dawn of War II to use the original four races in multiplayer). Plot-wise, two playable characters (Cyrus and Tarkus) have been carried over from the original campaigns. A new multiplayer matchmaking service was developed for Retribution. The addition of Steamworks also allows inviting Steam friends directly to multiplayer matches as well as free-to-play multiplayer weekends and a much faster patching process.
There were speculations that the new playable race would be Imperial Guard and/or the Inquisition, due to the Inquisition's triple-lined "I" used in the word "Retribution" in the game trailer; in addition, the expansion's wishlist icon in the Steam system features a female Witch Hunter Inquisitor. On December 21, 2010, the German PC gaming magazine Gamestar revealed the new race would be the Imperial Guard.
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