Retribution? Or Chaos Rising? Or DoW2?

[Moxie]

If I wish to experience the storyline, do I have to play them in order? Do I have to own all three? Or can I play the storylines without needing all three?

Or rather, is the storyline even important enough? Are the more advanced games better than the original? Any help would be appreciated, I simply don't find the info anywhere...

[Nuclear IL-2]

I would recomend to play Dow 2 then Chaos Rising then Retribution, the story plays a rather important role in the game since its online and skirmish are rather.. welllll yeaaah \one expection is last stand which is kinda w40k zombie mode, a funny little thing to play/ but the heavy emphasis is on the story and yes i do recomend to play it in the right order.

[Moxie]

Thanks, kinda what I thought =) Let's see if I can get DOW 2 working with the GFWL integration.

[Nuclear IL-2]

Good luck then. The campaign of Dow 2 and Chaos rising is kinda epic since it has heavy emphasis in role play and you can import your character from dow 2 to chaos rising... but anyway I kinda have a small request. is it posible for you to invite me to play the cmapaign with you latter on? *coop in the campaign* because I realy want to play with somoene who hasnt experinced the story yet and would like to give it a go with a nice person *+I want to try out a epic mod with somone that add over 100 new wargear items to the game as well as biger scale campaign battles*

[Moxie]

I probably wont be playing it for quite a while, got too much on my agenda right now, but if you want to go ahead and add me, at least to tell me more of that mod =)

[=][=Holy=][=Saint=][=Knight=][=]

DoW 2 + Chaos rising. Retribution campaign is ♥♥♥♥.

[grumpstar]

Originally posted by Dandalus the faithful of CHAOS:

DoW 2 + Chaos rising. Retribution campaign is ♥♥♥♥.

I concur. dow2 was an interesting take. chaos rising was slightly annoying cheap follow up job on dow2, but seemed an arguable legitamite expansion sort of reissue, it just sort of missed the mark in my opinion, but props to the devs for trying a different spin anyhow, meanwhile...there just seems to be no excuse for the steaming pile that retribution story is. really just played through once a couple years ago and forgotten. I have somewhat of a hankering to revisit this series now for the single player campaign. all i remember about retribution was it was atrocious in this regard and was looking for a thread that adresses its lacklusterness. I have mixed feelings toward thq who really do have the talent and know how to actually make a product with the GW license that isnt totally crap, because GW IP video games are usually straight up terrible, but dow was awesome. and dow2 not everyone's cup of tea but its certainly an honest earnest effort with the namesake and quality falls off sharply from kinda bad to just flat out terrible between 2nd and 3rd expansion. however....there is continuity that you might want to take your builds of the static characters from one expansion to the next. that is sort of cool. almost.

[Rabidmabel]

get retribution don't bother with the other 2

[Rabidmabel]

Originally posted by Dandalus the faithful of CHAOS:

DoW 2 + Chaos rising. Retribution campaign is ♥♥♥♥.

Dow2's campaign was the ♥♥♥♥ one

[1boring]

Its all about personal taste
If you can play all of them and you like wh40k stuff, i would check em all in the correct order.
In my case i like dow2 and chaos rising more than retribution (story, gameplay, etc)

[Cigar [B4R]]

Dawn Of War 2 campaign was good 8/10. The campaign in DoW 2 was weakened by the onslaught of repetitive "Defend Missions" and most of the missions being defeat the boss missions. However the storyline and dialogue were quite good and linked perfectly with the campaign in Chaos Rising.

Dawn of War 2: Chaos Rising campaign was good 9/10. With the storyline richly detailed and actually looking deeply into the mystery of the Blood Ravens. And with the missions varying with different objectives and no overdone repetition.

Dawn of War 2: Retribution campaign was below average 6/10. The end of the Space Marine campaign was a nice touch, but due to every race having basically the same mission with the same dialogue, the Space Marine storyline was dried out and rushed in this one. The whole storyline itself was cliche in itself... Space Marine becomes corrupt... Chaos spreads... main antagonist wants to become a Daemon Prince.. lacked originality and really closed off any possibility of a compelling storyline for the Blood Ravens in DoW III.

Once you are done with these campaigns, I recommend you read my Space Marine campaign remake for how DoW II: Retribution should have been.. if you have the time of course.

[Moxie]

Sounds really good =) Thank you for that info! And I'll look into it, still looking to play the three campaigns, just haven't found the time to get into it yet...

[Darth Cannabis]

Originally posted by Eagle:

Dawn Of War 2 campaign was good 8/10. The campaign in DoW 2 was weakened by the onslaught of repetitive "Defend Missions" and most of the missions being defeat the boss missions. However the storyline and dialogue were quite good and linked perfectly with the campaign in Chaos Rising.

Dawn of War 2: Chaos Rising campaign was good 9/10. With the storyline richly detailed and actually looking deeply into the mystery of the Blood Ravens. And with the missions varying with different objectives and no overdone repetition.

Dawn of War 2: Retribution campaign was below average 6/10. The end of the Space Marine campaign was a nice touch, but due to every race having basically the same mission with the same dialogue, the Space Marine storyline was dried out and rushed in this one. The whole storyline itself was cliche in itself... Space Marine becomes corrupt... Chaos spreads... main antagonist wants to become a Daemon Prince.. lacked originality and really closed off any possibility of a compelling storyline for the Blood Ravens in DoW III.

Once you are done with these campaigns, I recommend you read my Space Marine campaign remake for how DoW II: Retribution should have been.. if you have the time of course.

Good solid review, thou I would expound more on Chaos Rising, and the missions. Much of the gear and secondary objectives (whether to do or ignore, or use or not use) affect corruption of own units. Thus thru the storyline you can have the so fun experience of actually corrupting your own marines, providing the unique view of how a space marine falls to chaos ideaolgy wise.