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Great film!!

BrookM wrote:

amenzer wrote:I found it interesting that the marines had eagles with only 1 head, shouldn't they all have the sign of the aquila?

Some of the marines have the Raven on their chest plates instead of the Aquila.

Bingo! Long time fans will remember that DoW saw the creation of the new marine chapter "Ravenguard".

Blood Ravens actually

Here's where they actually tried with the Blood Quest movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpEY630UaMg

The turn taking each character did by killing someone then getting killed by the next person like a row of dominoes was kind of lame. But at least the Blood Ravens won this intro

Looking forward to the game. I really hope those are Nids at the end.

Griffu wrote:The turn taking each character did by killing someone then getting killed by the next person like a row of dominoes was kind of lame. But at least the Blood Ravens won this intro

I agree, this guy kills this guy, who gets killed by this guy, who then gets killed by this guy, who then gets.... yeah, I agree.... except the Marines should have lost. Then again, the Marines had more points than the Eldar!

I thought it was a cool intro, the best part I thought was the Warp Spider. Too bad they aren't that cool in the tabletop version.

A 40K movie could be incredible, but unlikely for the reasons others mentioned. I mean, we're getting ready to see "Mutant Chronicles", based on the tabletop game "Warzone", which I was extremely passionate about. We'll get to see just how bad a movie-house can make a 'miniatures game' movie, firsthand.

Does anyone remember that 40K live-action 'trailer' back in the early 90's... Space Wolves in termi armor, a Genestealer Magus, and of course the Tyranid at the end? It was like 30-40 seconds long or so. I saw it at the GW booth at GenCon-Milwaukee. Anyone else remember seeing that? At the time I thought for sure that was a prelude to some kind of movie, too.

Just my 2 coppers.

Or the campy, but so effing awesome cinematic movies from that ancient game Final Liberation? Those were good fun, with marines in rubber suits and a commissar with a rather tiny cap. But awesome nonetheless.

that was awesome squared.wow, i so wish i as able to play this game somehow.

Mort wrote:

Griffu wrote:The turn taking each character did by killing someone then getting killed by the next person like a row of dominoes was kind of lame. But at least the Blood Ravens won this intro

I agree, this guy kills this guy, who gets killed by this guy, who then gets killed by this guy, who then gets.... yeah, I agree.... except the Marines should have lost. Then again, the Marines had more points than the Eldar!

Come on, man. You can't have the Blood Ravens lose both intros to their own games! What would the other chapters say !

The video is amazing, especially the warp spider and the way the marines move.

Hope its tyranids.

Wish they would do a CGI movie...

Could it be an unformed C'Tan?

Although she replied to 'them' in plural....

For the record, the best part of the DOW2 E3 demo was that it led me to the Fallout3 demo/trailer.

Hallelujah, there is a God!

The 'Nids are coming!!! Definately.

From what I read so far, it doesn't sound as if 'Nids will be a playable race like the IG in DOW 1. Hope I'm wrong.

This is far too good to be true.

4 races so far. Are they gong to include them all now?

Q

I must admite that when I heard about DoW II I was a bit worried. But after watching that movie, I can tell you one thing; Force Unleshed isn't going to be the only game I buy hot of the Self! This game looks Freakin Awesome!

Jarkell wrote:The 'Nids are coming!!! Definately.

From what I read so far, it doesn't sound as if 'Nids will be a playable race like the IG in DOW 1. Hope I'm wrong.

This is far too good to be true.

4 races so far. Are they gong to include them all now?

Q

The word I've heard is that part of the reason they did DOW II was to create an engine that could properly handle 'Nids. Before the announcement that DOW II was coming, everyone kept asking when a DOW would be released that dealt with 'Nids. The designers kept saying over and over again that they didn't feel the DOW engine would do 'Nids justice. With DOW II, they've revamped the engine and word on the street is so they could make sure they could do our favorite little buggy friends.

I wonder if Relic are going to be lazy and not release any trailers for the other races.

Actually, for DoW II they used their slightly retouched Essence 2.0 engine, which they already used for the ace Company of Heroes and Opposing Fronts.

Is there anywhere I can DL this movie?

BrookM wrote:Actually, for DoW II they used their slightly retouched Essence 2.0 engine, which they already used for the ace Company of Heroes and Opposing Fronts.

What this man said is correct.

Looks very nice, though I'd probably want to update my computer first. :S

And It looks like Tyranids are joining the party.

Griffu wrote:

Mort wrote:

Griffu wrote:The turn taking each character did by killing someone then getting killed by the next person like a row of dominoes was kind of lame. But at least the Blood Ravens won this intro

I agree, this guy kills this guy, who gets killed by this guy, who then gets killed by this guy, who then gets.... yeah, I agree.... except the Marines should have lost. Then again, the Marines had more points than the Eldar!

Come on, man. You can't have the Blood Ravens lose both intros to their own games! What would the other chapters say !

The Blood Ravens didn't lose in the 1st DoW intro. They took the final objective and then rained in drop pods.

Also based on info from Play.com its due at the end of November this year.

Flinty

SPRING 2009 according to Relic.

They have always been good showing one side beating up the other, then going back the other way in their intros. I remember from the first one, the dread comes in and shoots up the mountain side, kills an ork only to get blasted apart by a tank busta bomb. It always was back and forth, they were not trying to show favorites.

I just find it laughable that a bolt pistol is just as good at killing something as the dread. It should have been a plasma pistol, that would make taking down the banshi in one shot more believable.

The cinematic were awesome in the first DOW game as well, didn't help the horrible game balance and gameplay issues though.

Thats my opinion of course, but the first DOW failed me on many levels. From what I've heard, I'm not convinced these issues have been fixed in the second one. But I'll give it a try anyway and see.

How did you find DOW a failure?

First they promised a different aspect to the normal collect and build. Which the stratigic points were nice variation, but you still had to collect power and "collect" waypoiints to build stuff. It wasn't nearly as free as they had promised. The worst part though was that because of the way points it made a come from behind victory impossible. Once you were down in stratigic points no amount of clever play could bring you back, you just couldn't get the resources to build up. Especially since both sides knew where they were and who controlled them.

Second was race balance. There wasn't any. Worse there wasn't even balance inside the units of each race. When all you had to do was spam tac marines with two HBs and two missile launchers to win the game, that is a problem.

I'll admit, I didn't play every race, but some were defiantly on the short end of the stick. Also since the low level units were so strong, buy the time you got around to being able to get the cooler "big" stuff the game was over. I never once had a "cometitive" game last long enough to bring out an ork squigoth.

I mostly played single player, but I did hear complaints along those lines for the multiplayer. Still much better than most RTS though.
Single player gets silly in the late game because they make up for inferior AI with massive numbers.

BrookM wrote:SPRING 2009 according to Relic.

Wacky... I checked this yesterday and it said Nov 2008, I check again today and as you say its been shifted to March 2009.

How annoying. Flinty.

There's an interview on Gamespot with the project developer or somesuch that has two good bits of info. First off they "can't" tell you what race is in the sky, that screams nids to me.

He also mentioned that they game is designed to run on a decently high end 3 year old dell (6 months old when they started development.) as the rock bottom requirements. So I'm thinking a gig of ram, dual core processor and a 7 or 8 series Geforce. I dont' see it being any worse to run than Bioshock for sure.