Dawn of Waaagh! Pre -high Warhammer 40 000: Dawn of War 3

What : Presentation Warhammer 40 000: Dawn of War 3 Where: London

If you are at least a little familiar with the universe Warhammer 40k , then imagine how a colossal setting it is. Incredible things are happening there: harsh inquisitors say as entire planets to the highest degree, cosmic paratroopers fall on enemies from the sky, and God -like creatures face the battlefields.

And all the more offensive that such a setting is often exchanged for outright hack. Over the past five years, not a single decent game has been released on WH40K. Recent Battlefleet Gothic: Armada It turned out to be too niche even for fans, and about the rest of the games, we bashfully keep silent.

On such a gloomy background, the news about Dawn of War 3 perceived as the light of the emperor and the last hope of mankind for a good game on Wh40k. Some of the readers will notice that the development is still Space Hulk: Deathwing – Beautiful and on Unreal Engine 4. He is promising, but WH40K is primarily large -scale battles. Therefore, we want it or not, Dawn of War 3 is the Warhammer that we really deserve.

The game is similar to the first part

► Count the number of units on the screen. Fears that Down 3 will be local and chamber, in vain.

The presentation Dawn of War 3 in London from the threshold presented two main news. Bad news: we were not allowed to the game process. We watched a five -minute gameplay video, studied a series of slides and talked with developers. Though you turn around and leave, if not for the other news, good and even perfect: Relic Entertainment Returned the construction of bases.

If this message did not hit you like an avalanche, you understand little in Dawn of War, and I have to explain something. The first Dawn of War was released in 2004 and was a typical RTS with its advantages and disadvantages. Dawn of War 2 turned out to be a tactical role about a small bunch of heroes. At first it was interesting: a lot of plot scenes, dialogs, the atmosphere of WH40K came directly from the screen, and Chaos Ringing So in general one of the best additions. However, over time, the abundance of the same type DLC ruined the idea, and a formless something under the name The Last Stand The initiation of Relic Entertainment was buried.

Then the famous collapse of the publisher occurred ThQ , And Lady Linda Casino they forgot about Dawn of War for years. Which Dawn of War will return under the leadership of another publisher ( Sega ), it was strongly not clear, and this was the main intrigue of the trip.

You can exhale, Dawn of War returns to the origins. Classical RTS with bases, development and dozens of units (sometimes about a hundred beat on the screen), but with an eye on modern trends. Here we will dwell on more details.

We are still for "ravens"

► can be confused with Diablo, but this is the beginning of the plot campaign for the cosmodesant. Gabriel Angelos is terrible in anger and is able to cope with the whole army alone.

On the screen, Gabriel Angelos already familiar to us (lively and unharmed), the master of the Order of the Cosmodesant "Bloody Crows", is cut through the ranks of the cosmic elves – Eldar. Along the way, Gabriel pushes pathos speeches, blowing the heads of a giant hammer gaping xenos. At such moments, the game resembles a role action rather than a strategy, and sends us straight to Down 2.

But the zone is cleaned, the angelos requires reinforcements, and they are sent to him in the form of a technical service. Before our eyes, they immediately proceed to the construction of the base (among those present in the hall of journalists, even timid applause is heard).

So far, it is impossible to say how multifaceted the development will be, the developers showed literally a few buildings and somehow suspiciously quickly and without difficult improvements made a formidable dreadnought. Having exchanged replicas with an angelos, the dreadnought and the company went to the next point on the map, with a crunch of crushing skull xenos.

In the desktop version of Warhammer 40k there is a wonderful rule Deep Strike (deep blow), when reinforcements arrive from your reserve in full swing – usually directly to the rear of the enemy. There is something similar in Dawn of War 3. Order fighters at the base, then deliver them to the indicated place with airborne capsules without looking up from adventure. Convenient service, present its capabilities in multiplayer.

Xenos will be bad

► And here is the premiere of the Dawn of War series. Meet! The largest unit in the history of the game is the Imperial Knight.

Developers divide units into Dow 3 into three categories: simple, elite and super. The former are ordinary space marines, replenished cannon fodder. The elite are personalized heroes that affect the battle with one of their presence. Heroes grow in levels (until the tenth), have special capabilities and determine the tactics of the game.

Super -junites, according to the developers, will become a real Victory tool in the later stages of the game. These include the imperial knight (Imperial Knight), a hefty walking fool that surpasses everything that has ever appeared in the Dawn of War series.

The imperial knight is often confused with Titan, and in vain. This is a strongly reduced and single version (real titans simply will not fit in the game). The knight is controlled by a formidable woman Solaria, and she is the second hero of the plot campaign of "Bloody Ravens". According to the creators, the key characters are planned for three on each side of the conflict, and who will be the last in the Raven line, is not known. But something tells, without the Inquisition will not do.

In the campaign – not only space marines

► these are large -scale battles. Dawn of War 3 tries to match.

The authors promise a plot campaign that will pull newcomers and remind everyone else that is the essence of the matter, after all, the last game was released five years ago. We are waiting for the continuation of the history of the Order of the Cosmodesant "Bloody Crows", but this time they will not solo. The developers emphasize: “There are no heroes in the Warhammer universe,” – hinting that the usual “crows” are not so important birds that the universe rotates around them.

We will see history through the eyes of all participants in the conflict – cosmodesant, Eldars and orcs. Misses for different sides will alternate, once again proving that in the Warhammer world, each faction has its own truth. The developers illustrate the features of the plot of the following example: having fulfilled the mission for Gabriel Angelos and destroying a certain ancient monolith of vile xenos, we switch to the eldars, we learn his true purpose and with bitterness we understand that the leader of the cosmodesant rushed with the decision.

The list of fractions is clearly not enough eternal enemy – chaos forces. Relic Entertainment does not apply about this, but even in the description of the plot there is encouraging information. The game will unfold on the planet Acharon, where, according to ancient legends, a certain absolute weapon is hidden that can change the course of a galactic war. Three fractions fight each other for the most valuable artifact, and here, attention, a quote, “having reached it, they will face a new evil”. Fat hint of our horned friends.

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The presentation of the gameplay ended spectacularly: an orbital blow. If in other games such techniques were used – believe me, then there was only a miserable semblance that did not have the right to the majestic name “orbital blow”.

In the correct performance, this looked like this: a fiery tornado fell on the position of the Eldars from the sky, literally evaporating them. On this, the demonstration of the power of the cosmodesant did not end. Having increased in diameter, the ray moved behind the escaping remnants of xenos, leaving behind a scorched desert. Figurely expressed, at the end of the presentation, Relic Entertainment brought down fire on the heads of all skeptics from heaven. Apparently, in 2017, Dow 3 will return to the empty gold throne WH IGR with a triumph.