Everything about the story, from the pacing to the voice work, nails the dark, oppressive Warhammer 40k vibe.
The campaign, which clocks in at about nine or twelve hours of play time depending on your difficulty setting and whether or not you opt to import your save from Dawn of War II, is a satisfying addition to the main game. The Space Marines, who value order, consider Chaos to be one of the greatest threats to the known galaxy the Chaos Space Marines are all considered heretics who have turned their backs on the Space Marines' beliefs. If you simplified their beliefs, you could condense them down into the Light Side and the Dark Side, but there's actually a pretty strong backstory to their struggle. It might sound like a foolish business decision - why buy the spaceship when you can get the stardrive for free - but there is a fairly worthwhile incentive for paying the $60 purchase price: you get access to Chaos Rising's new single-player experience as well as the Chaos Space Marine faction in online multiplayer.Ĭhaos Rising's single-player campaign centres on the Chaos Space Marines, a faction of dark magic wielding anarchists who are the antithesis of the self-righteous Space Marines. That means whether you buy the expansion or not, you'll have access to new units and maps. While Chaos Rising, the new expansion for Relic's amazing Dawn of War II, follows this formula closely, it's the depth and quality of the new campaign, units, and maps that sets it apart from most expansions.ĭawn of War II players have been treated to a bevy of free updates that have added new modes like Last Stand, and THQ has wisely decided to make most of the multiplayer content found in Chaos Rising available to every Dawn of War II owner through a patch. Most real-time strategy expansions follow a typical formula: they add at least one new faction, some new units, a handful of new maps and maybe some extra single-player content.
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