Chaos Rising Goes Gold

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**BrookM**

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Chaos Rising Goes Gold

THQ and Relic Entertainment to Deliver Standalone Expansion to 2009’s Real-Time Strategy Game of the Year*, Dawn of War II

AGOURA HILLS, Calif. February 22, 2010 -- THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) today announced Warhammer® 40,000TM: Dawn of War® II – Chaos RisingTM, the highly anticipated standalone chapter in the critically acclaimed Real-Time Strategy (RTS) series, has reached the gold master stage of development and entered manufacturing. Developed by award-winning internal studio Relic® Entertainment, Chaos Rising features the traitorous Chaos Space Marines army as a playable race, a new single-player campaign, a level cap increase from 20 to 30, more powerful war-gear and a suite of innovative multiplayer options. Scheduled for a nationwide release at all major retail and online outlets on March 11, 2010, Chaos Rising will be available as a Games for Windows LIVE® PC title for a suggested retail price of $29.99.

“Chaos Rising is the perfect follow up to Dawn of War II, 2009’s RTS Game of the Year, offering an incredible amount of new content for an amazing value,” said Travis Plane, Vice President of Global Brand Management, THQ. “Relic Entertainment is the industry’s leading RTS developer and will once again deliver bone-crushing action, breathtaking visuals and unprecedented innovation in the genre.”

“Chaos Rising builds on the success of Dawn of War II to create a truly epic and memorable experience for fans and newcomers alike,” said Jonathan Dowdeswell, General Manager, Relic Entertainment. “The game features an intense single player campaign with 15 action-packed missions and introduces our most brutal multiplayer army yet, the Chaos Space Marines.”

About Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Chaos Rising
Set in the grim, war-ravaged world of Games Workshop’s vast Warhammer 40,000 science fiction universe, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Chaos Rising transports players into the midst of an intergalactic war between ancient enemies. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Chaos Rising introduces the Chaos Space Marines as a new playable army, continues the single player campaign from the original Dawn of War II with 15 new missions, delivers all new wargear and raises the level cap from 20 to 30. Relic Entertainment will also deliver new multiplayer maps and new units for the Orks, Eldar, Tyranids and Space Marines. For more information on Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Chaos Rising, please visit www.dawnofwar2.com.

About Games Workshop
Games Workshop is the world's largest tabletop wargames company. Based in Nottingham, UK, it designs, manufactures and distributes its range of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 games, miniature soldiers, novels and resin models through more than 355 of its own Hobby centers, mail order, Internet and independent retail channels in more than 50 countries worldwide. Further details on the company can be obtained at www.games-workshop.com. Games Workshop, Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Chaos Rising, the foregoing marks' respective logos, and all associated marks, logos, places, names, creatures, races and race insignia/devices/logos/symbols, vehicles, locations, weapons, units and unit insignia, characters, products, illustrations and images are either ®, TM and/or © Games Workshop Ltd 2000-2010. Used under license. All Rights Reserved.

About THQ
THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) is a leading worldwide developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software. The company develops its products for all popular game systems, personal computers and wireless devices. Headquartered in Los Angeles County, California, THQ sells product through its global network of offices located throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. More information about THQ and its products may be found at www.thq.com. THQ, Relic Entertainment and their respective logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of THQ Inc.

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**Commander Endova**

I just preordered it on Steam! can't wait to download and play in two weeks.

**Alpharius**

Commander Endova wrote:I just preordered it on Steam! can't wait to download and play in two weeks.

Wait - was that sarcastic?

**BrookM**

Knowing the current state of Steam, that is probably the truth.

**metallifan**

I like how they never actually announce what the gold edition includes...

**The Dreadnote**

You do know what "going gold" means, right?

**metallifan**

In music terms, yes. Is it the same for games?

**The Dreadnote**

It means the game is finished, and refers to the creation of a gold "master copy" of the disk which is used in the production of subsequent disks.

**Sharpasaspoon**

Its got the original game (Dawn of War 2) and the add on Chaos Rising. Cheaper to buy both as a gold edition than seperately

**metallifan**

The Dreadnote wrote:It means the game is finished, and refers to the creation of a gold "master copy" of the disk which is used in the production of subsequent disks.

Ah. Game-speak. See, I'm no good at that sort of thing

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Sharpasaspoon wrote:Its got the original game (Dawn of War 2) and the add on Chaos Rising. Cheaper to buy both as a gold edition than seperately

See, but why would anyone -want- vanilla DoW II? This X-pack is standalone. I would've thought Gold Ed would, you know, come with some additional extra units or maps, or a second campaign. You know, something good.

**Sharpasaspoon**

metallifan wrote:
See, but why would anyone -want- vanilla DoW II? This X-pack is standalone. I would've thought Gold Ed would, you know, come with some additional extra units or maps, or a second campaign. You know, something good.

Yup I agree......

**legoburner**

I spent all day yesterday playing this at THQ's event (yay).

So here's what's up:
- the first two levels are a bit slow (intro style levels). Things start picking up and the plot starts progressing from level 3, but they did not let us play past that.
- last stand is going to be back but I am not sure if it will be there on release - the one we played yesterday was still being debugged and had a lot of developer options in it that will be removed. Last stand features the Tyranid Hive Tyrant and Chaos Sorceror ... Chaos sorceror can create doppleganger units to fight alongside you (so yes, you can have a pet Carnifex), and can kill your dopplegangers for a quick health boost. The Hive Tyrant can summon genestealers to fight alongside you, and they are tough beasties. I only got to wave 6, and the enemies were the same as the last DoW game, as was the battlefield. Hoping they'll update that but who knows.
- Multiplayer now has free for all (6 player, team based, big game). All pretty good fun. Plague Champion was my fave as they can plant turrets (like the techmarine) and have nurgle shrines which you can fall back to and heal at.

Alas, not much else new to report. It is all pretty much the same as the last game from the menu system - still the same worlds (well one new one at least), same map setup, leveling, etc. It looks like the levels go a lot further now though and I'm wondering if you can import the levels and items of your last characters as well.

It has been confirmed that there will be at least 2 packs of extra armour/weapons and things for preorders and certain retail packages like the last game had with game, steam, etc.

The army painter was cool as usual, and interestingly had a lot of different 2 tone metallics with GW sounding names. I wonder if 2 tone metallics are in the pipeline at GW? They had non-GW colours in the last army painter as well so seems improbable but you never know.

**metallifan**

legoburner wrote:I spent all day yesterday playing this at THQ's event (yay).

So here's what's up:
- the first two levels are a bit slow (intro style levels). Things start picking up and the plot starts progressing from level 3, but they did not let us play past that.
- last stand is going to be back but I am not sure if it will be there on release - the one we played yesterday was still being debugged and had a lot of developer options in it that will be removed. Last stand features the Tyranid Hive Tyrant and Chaos Sorceror ... Chaos sorceror can create doppleganger units to fight alongside you (so yes, you can have a pet Carnifex), and can kill your dopplegangers for a quick health boost. The Hive Tyrant can summon genestealers to fight alongside you, and they are tough beasties. I only got to wave 6, and the enemies were the same as the last DoW game, as was the battlefield. Hoping they'll update that but who knows.
- Multiplayer now has free for all (6 player, team based, big game). All pretty good fun. Plague Champion was my fave as they can plant turrets (like the techmarine) and have nurgle shrines which you can fall back to and heal at.

Alas, not much else new to report. It is all pretty much the same as the last game from the menu system - still the same worlds (well one new one at least), same map setup, leveling, etc. It looks like the levels go a lot further now though and I'm wondering if you can import the levels and items of your last characters as well.

It has been confirmed that there will be at least 2 packs of extra armour/weapons and things for preorders and certain retail packages like the last game had with game, steam, etc.

The army painter was cool as usual, and interestingly had a lot of different 2 tone metallics with GW sounding names. I wonder if 2 tone metallics are in the pipeline at GW? They had non-GW colours in the last army painter as well so seems improbable but you never know.

Wow! Thanks for the Info Lego. Were you able to get any word on the rumor of a Space Hulk level or levels? They seemed to show one in the preview for the game, but I haven't heard anything about them yet.

**legoburner**

Nope, they were hush hush on everything past level 3 (all land based).

**metallifan**

F**kbeans. If I knew we'd be getting a couple Space Hulk levels, I would deuce myself with joy. Right here, right now. I'd also pay any price for the game

Sigh.

**BrookM**

I'm pretty sure Space Hulk missions are included, otherwise they wouldn't be in the trailer.

**THQInsider**

Some photos from the day are up on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Chaos%20Rising%20Community%20Day&w=29686673@N07

Not sure if you're in one of these, lego

**legoburner**

Alas I am

**Sanctjud**

I can't wait to embrace the Great Unclean one...only 10 more days.

**Anshal**

MAIM KILL BURN in ten days time now, I am trembling with longing for the game now. The skull lord needs blood

**Corpsesarefun**

Hey kids, lets play a game of wheres lego

ive found the wizard but i havent found lego yet....

**THQInsider**

legoburner wrote:I'm wondering if you can import the levels and items of your last characters as well.

There is the option to import your existing character - guessing this will allow tweaking of stats if you didn't get him up to level 20 already.

Reviews have started appearing now, and they're giving pretty good scores..

Eurogamer gives 9/10
"Chaos Rising is a game of choices. Will you open a defensive gate by disabling its hard-to-reach power generators, or just kick the whole thing down and hang the consequences?"

He manages to avoid letting on about something further on in the campaign that's rather spoiler-ish too! Personally I wish I didn't know, because I love surprises, but others will actually want to know everything they can.

The next two reviews do include the spoiler, so please be warned

GamesRadar also gives 9/10 - a fairly glowing review.
"Doing battle with the Chaos Space Marines is, at first, very much like fighting Space Marines… until they unleash the Bloodletters: tough-to-slay, flame-sword-swinging split-tongued devils, and Bloodcrushers, the demonic cavalry."

NowGamer's review (9.1/10) goes into more detail about the corruption mechanic (but also has the spoiler)
"Most games require ‘action’ to register a morality path but Chaos Rising is one of the few that organically dictates that ‘inaction’ or even failure is a morality choice."

So, anybody know which route they're going to try and stick to?

**Kanluwen**

So THQ--are we in the States going to see some form of preorder bonus items like DOW2 had?

Because all I've seen on Steam is that we're able to get Saint's Row 2 in addition to the game...

Whoopity freakin' doo.

**THQInsider**

There are two packs:

Librarian Wargear Pack
- Only available through THQ E-Shop in Europe and THQ Store in US
- Can find links from the front of THQ.com in each territory
- Limited to first 6,000 in Europe (think similar number in US)

Registration Wargear Pack
- Only available on THQ.com when you register your game
- Available across US, Europe and Australia
- Limited to first 50,000 registrations

**BrookM**

Damn you Steam, let me install it already!

Also, I tried registering it on-line and the game isn't in the list of PC games.

edit.

Damn it! Steam won't let me register and install it until tomorrow.

**Kanluwen**

I can't even register for the THQ site, so feth the idea of free schwag I guess.

But, that aside, it's pretty fun so far. The Corruption mechanic is obnoxious though, and Corrupted items are now filling up inventory slots(some of which, when you 'donate' them to the Librarium then gives you a further Chaosified version, going to all the way to being ultra-rare and ultra-powerful Corrupted items--which you can't donate anymore) . Which isn't cool.

And what the heck, guys? Teasing me with all the Imperial Guard you get to fight against and alongside of--but not making them a playable faction yet?!

**leoaeris6789**

Is there a limit on inventory space in chaos rising? That's kinda lame. I'm probably going to get it tomorrow, so I'll find out either way.

**Kanluwen**

There's no inventory space limit(as far as I know).

It's just obnoxious to have items you can't delete.

**IvanTih**

I'm happy to finnaly play some Space Hulk missions.

**cablecing**

As a person who enjoyed the DOW2
and as a person whos a huge chaos fan

This game meet ALL my expatiations and then shatters them with Happiness in my pants.

they did a GREAT job on this game and i am greatly enjoying corrupting my precious blood ravens to evil

the Muti-player at first looked sad because i was not getting thousand sons or Khorne bezerkers.

HOWEVER HOWEVER just wait till you see the normal space marine upgrades 2 thumbs up or 2 skulls for the skull throne.