14 DAY TRIAL // It seems that the people at Relic are satisfied enough with the success of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, which was released earlier in the year, and are preparing to launch an expansion pack for it, which will be called Chaos Rising. At the moment, the company is not offering any more information, as the big revealing is set to come at some point in the month of October. Still, it is good news for all those who have played and enjoyed the hybrid between role playing and small-unit tactics that Relic has put together in Dawn of War II.
The revealing was made in the PC Gamer podcast and, while details are really limited at the moment, it's safe to say, judging from the title, that the big addition will be the ability to play as a Chaos Legion. There will be a new, single-player, 20-mission-long campaign, which will feature the Blood Ravens as they take on their Chaos-tainted foes and the level cap for squads has been pushed up to 30, with more loot, including Chaos-based equipment added to the game.
Relic has already offered some interesting, new content for Dawn of War II in The Last Stand add-on, which introduces a new game mode where players can select three heroes, one Space Marine, one Ork and one Eldar, and then face off ever-tougher waves of enemies, in a somewhat similar manner to that seen in the Horde mode for Gears of War 2, which has proven very popular with gamers.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II managed to surprise veterans of the Relic-made series by introducing smaller squads and level progression to the game, allowing for more variety and more replayability than the standard, real-time strategy. Let's hope that the Chaos Space Marines-featuring expansion will similarly surprise gamers in a good way.