Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Relic Entertainment and released in 2009. It was published by Feral Interactive. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Essence Engine.

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It supports multiplayer for up to 4 players online, and includes co-op. Local play supports 1 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 73 achievements to unlock.

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II is the 19th of 136 entries we hold in the Warhammer 40,000 series. It arrived 12 months after Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Soulstorm. The next entry was Blood Bowl in 2009. Its critic score of 81 is 10 points above the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader - Void Shadows at 100.

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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 75% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 14 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 80, across 141 votes.

The main story runs about 54 hrs.

The minimum specification calls for P4 3.2 GHz (single core) or any Dual Core processor, 1 GB RAM (XP), 1.5 GB RAM (Vista) and A 128MB Video Card (Shader Model 3) - Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT / ATI X1600, or equivalent. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 7GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II launched on 19 February 2009, within three weeks of Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Resident Evil 5 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Resident Evil 5, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned.

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