Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution: The Last Stand

Dawn of War II, Last Stand is a three player cooperative survival mode that is also available as a stand-alone game! You select a single hero and face off against waves of enemies with up to two other…

20 April 2011

What Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution: The Last Stand is

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution: The Last Stand is a strategy game developed by Relic Entertainment and released in 2011. It was published by Feral Interactive. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Dawn of War II, Last Stand is a three player cooperative survival mode that is also available as a stand-alone game! You select a single hero and face off against waves of enemies with up to two other teammates. Play as one of the six available heroes and gain experience points to level up and unlock new wargear abilities. Customize your character’s abilities to create the ultimate build and fight off twenty waves of increasingly devastating enemies. These are not the usual heroes known from the campaign. These are super-powered characters that are capable of killing dozens or even hundreds of enemies during a game. How long will you last In the Grim Darkness of the Far Future where there…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction, survival and warfare.

Where it sits in the Warhammer 40,000 series

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution: The Last Stand is the 24th of 136 entries we hold in the Warhammer 40,000 series. The next entry was Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team in 2011.

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What it launched against

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution: The Last Stand launched on 20 April 2011, within three weeks of Portal 2, Mortal Kombat, World of Tanks and Outland.

Released around the same time: Portal 2, Mortal Kombat, World of Tanks, Outland.

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