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Nu știu dacă mai există cineva care să nu fi aflat deja că studiourile Relic Entertainment lucrează la Warhammer 40.000: Dawn of War 2, dar THQ nu pierde vremea și ne trimite un comunicat de presă în această privință.
Așadar, jocul este motorizat de o versiune îmbunătăţită a engine-ului Essence 2.0 (folosit în Company of Heroes),
este optimizat pentru DirectX 10, va oferi suport pentru procesoarele multicore și va sti să folosească Havok physics.
Nu lipsește campania co-op, AI-ul va fi îmbunătăţit, mai ales în privința "pathfinding-ului" şi "awareness-ului", sunt promise medii înconjurătoare distructibile și variate: deşert, junglă, munţi, oraşe etc. și misiuni nelineare.
Warhammer 40.000: Dawn of War 2 își va face apariția în magazinele de specialitate în primăvara anului viitor.
GOURA HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--THQ Inc.
(NASDAQ:THQI - News) today announced that Warhammer® 40,000™: Dawn of
War® II, the highly anticipated sequel from one of the industry’s
premiere Real-Time Strategy (RTS) developers, Relic Entertainment, is
scheduled to bring the 41st Millennium’s savage warfare to life like
never before in spring 2009. Powered by an enhanced version of Relic’s
proprietary Essence Engine 2.0™, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II will
take players to the brutal frontlines of war where they’ll experience
intense action and visceral combat through a non-linear single player
experience and a fully co-operative multiplayer campaign. Set in Games
Workshop’s highly popular Warhammer 40,000 science fiction universe,
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II is being developed exclusively for
Windows PC.
In addition, THQ is pleased to announce that
gamers purchasing copies of the recently released Warhammer® 40,000™:
Dawn of War® - Soulstorm™ will be able to participate in an
invitation-only multiplayer beta program for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of
War II set to take place at a future date.
“The original
Dawn of War and its subsequent standalone expansions have established
the series as one of the industry’s leading RTS franchises,” said Brad
Carraway, vice president, global brand management, THQ. “Dawn of War II
will re-define RTS gaming to gamers worldwide, delivering brutal
frontline action and tactics, and allowing players to get straight to
the action with unprecedented fast-paced RTS gameplay and a full co-op
campaign, all in stunning cinematic detail.”
“We started
with everything fans loved about the original Dawn of War and then
added more than they ever could have hoped for in the sequel into Dawn
of War II,” said Tarrnie Williams, general manager, Relic
Entertainment. “Leveraging our critically acclaimed Essence Engine 2.0,
gamers will develop and lead an elite strike force through Games
Workshop’s war-torn universe, engage in devastating combat among the
ruins of fully destructible battlefields, and be immersed in an
ever-changing single-player and co-op multiplayer campaign.”
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Relic iz za best! 
