Hey guys, remember a few months back when Dawn Of War: 2 was announced at E3 and they threw up that cool trailer with the mysterous ending? "no, this world is theirs..." Today THQ revealed the mystery race...and its nids. Check out the New Extended Intro with it's cool Tyranid ending.
Also check out this in-game nid screenshot.
~Pretty cool stuff. Maybe not as cool as the real-life Rhino, but who's counting...
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video went to ign strategize?
Ha ha awesome
That Lictor was just incredible. i can't wait to see the 'Nids' gameplay mechanics. I, personally, hope that the army painter will be back.
Well, the Lictor was the only thing finished in the old Tyranids mod, so it's no wonder Relic started with that.
Always loved Lictors myself. *gribble gribble*
I think Nid gameplay is going to be quite bizarre.
Nice Lictor, and nice addition to the existing movie short!
hmm it does look very similar to the zerg and terran design in starcraft... coincidence?
@jimraynor
Yes, Starcraft was originally an Alien vs Predator game.
Although, if you were implying that 40k copied off Starcraft... 40k - 1986. Starcraft - 1997.
I hate it when people bulid time machines and steal the 100% original ideas of Blizzard.
Wooo Lictor!
Nid's!! Nid's!! Nid's!! Nid's!! Nid's!! Nid's!! Nid's!! Nid's!! Nid's!! Nid's!! Nid's!! Nid's!! Nid's!! Nid's!! Nid's!! Nid's!! Nid's!! Nid's!! Nid's!! Nid's!!
=oD
this is frikkin awesome!!!!!!!!
@ anon 1:47
Blizzard is not the only creative company in the world.... =p
Beautiful...
Love the picture on ign of the Carnifex about to maul an Assault Marine...
Link if you haven't seen it:
http://au.pc.ign.com/dor/objects/14243516/warhammer-40000-dawn-of-war-ii/images/warhammer-40000-dawn-of-war-ii-20080819095045310.html?page=mediaFull
I still think they will add Squats as a fifth race.
Dwarves vs Bugs on a Space Hulk level! :D
I loved the picture of 3 marines just standing there looking stupid as they are about to be screwed by a huge Carniflex. And they thought the Ork Warboss was large... =P
Who needs a girlfriend when I have this video...
Mmm... Zerg. And men in power armour, and a mysterious uptight alien race doing flickle things to beat the zerg at the expense of most of the terrans.
Am I drooling over starcraft II? Or Dawn of War II?
And does it matter?
I just hope THQ isn't genetically engineering any real tyranids.
Liiiiictoooooor, mummy I want it:D
by the way, how much sides is confirmed? only those four (SM, Eldar, Orkz, Nids) and fellow guardsmen have to wait for expansion, or will we get other ones? (Chaos and IG mainly come on my mind)
I heard a rumor MANY moons ago that GW actually had a court case against Blizzard after the release of StarCraft... and won. All that aside, I think DOW II will a great game, and I can't wait till it comes out!
Blizzard was originally in negotiation with GW to do a 40k game, and GW pulled out, but Blizzard took the premise anyway and ran with it, so of course there are some similarities. But name me a blizzard game that doesn't borrow from anything, and I'll call you a liar.
30 more clips and we could finally get a full 40k movie
@torogtarkdacil
Those 4 are the only ones to have been confirmed so far, however I would expect Chaos to be announced closer to the release. It wouldn't be a 40k game without the traditional SM vs. CSM showdown.
I need to get me a better PC. No way am I gonna be running this game on a Dimension 3100c. =/
I still can't believe people were surprised that Tyranids are in DoW2. The whole reason they said they are using Essence Engine 2.0 from the start was to do Tyranids. Any other race can be done without it.
As far as the Blizzard v. GW Ltd. suit goes, GW did indeed sue, but Blizzard (or their parent company) counter-sued, and everything ended up being settled in a gentleman's agreement.
Yay for bugs!
Starcraft has built to be a 40k game, just in the last phases, GW cancelled the contract.
I heard this.
you people need to get a life. starcraft was years ago, we all know that there are simularitys. but who cares it looks like an awesome game anyway. i for one will be buying it.
Feeder tendrils give nids a cthulu-face :D so cute. And stop trying to relate DoW2 to Starcraft2. If you look at screenshots and ingame stuff, DoW2 has a much better graphics engine.
ill probably end up getting both games anyways :P
I referred to SC1 only(and 40k TT), not to sc2 and dow2
Was it to much to hope that the new race would be the hrud?
The hrud? lol. Yes it's too much to ask.
There will be bugs.
there will always be bugs... more bugs... and bugs... and just bugs...
Game play video with Nids
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/warhammer40kdawnofwar2/video/6196262/warhammer-40-000-dawn-of-war-ii-official-trailer-1?hd=1
Zerg rush...........................
While the DOW2 graphics may be better, there is less hordey-ness in it that in SC2. I.e. SC2 is a larger scale than DoW2, because DoW2 is more squad based. Thus they can afford to put more polish and shine into each individual in-game model because the player will more than likely have a closer POV in DoW2 than in SC2.
Don't mean to start a flame war, but I feel if these things aren't clarified then one could definitely start.
But yeah, I will definitely need a new machine to run all the pure awsomeness that is coming along for the PC in the next couple of years...
so how can the nids communicate in the game? just wondering
Ha! Hrud! I just saw some on eBay...sort of.
reminds me of starship troopers the video game. by the way, how do you expect to communicate with nids in the game.
"gurgle gurgle spackle!"
"spackle gurgle!"
"What will the neighbours say..."
To all the whooping and insane cackling which just now echoed through my 'hood?
That was a most entertaining trailer for what looks like an awesome game, but I'll probably never play it - PC's cost too much to maintain as a useful games machine, and playing with toy soldiers on the tabletop feels like a better way to spend my time.
You people are thinking of Warcraft. Warcraft was originally a Warhammer game. Starcraft never had anything to do with GW (Blizzard weren't interested in dealing with GW again after they pulled out of Warcraft).
anyone know where I can see a list of system requirements?
If I'm gonna run this thing, I have to see what parts "Frankinputer" will need!
first - haha to all the ignorant smacktards that thought the cloud in the first vid was a warpstorm.
Second - sweet! I can't wait to play this game
OMG....I think Im in love!! =')...Finally 'nids!!!
Hey, Legion3000,
I called the cloud out as a 'nid swarm when I saw the 1st video...Shoulda seen my BF face when we saw the video that confirmed I was right!!! Hey I know my beloved bugs when I see em!
YYEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
It would be cool to play it on the wii... ;)
Heh, first thing I thought was 'nid Hive Fleet when I saw that cloud!
Can't wait to assimilate some space marine geneseed....
Is it me or does the Eldar "Witch" look more 'Human' than Eldar? She actually looks like a Elf rather than an Eldar.
I not too versed in the 40K Universe yet... working on it though.
The Eldar Farseer from DOW was blue skinned and didnt look like and Elf.
Can someone either agree or explain the disparity to a noob?
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