Fate of the World and new DoW2 expansion
By Ultimadark 5 Comments
So two new games that I wanted came out yesterday on steam; Fate of the World and Dawn of War 2: Retribution. I had already pre-ordered DoW2:R and was waiting for a demo for FotW, but then I read that there isn't one coming out in the near future so I went ahead and bought it. Even if it turns out to be a total disaster, at least it wasn't very expensive.
I started out yesterdays gaming night with FotW. Containing 4 missions, the first one of which is kind of a tutorial, one might think that this is not a very lengthy game. After playing through the tutorial and the first of the three real missions though, I'm not very concerned over this games longevity any more. It seems as if each mission will be pretty fun to replay, because even if I managed to get through the second mission (after reloading a save close to the end and changing some minor decisions), the world was in total chaos. North America was pretty much gone, ravaged by war, famine and poverty. The regions that I was still in control in were hanging by a thread, with civil wars, natural disasters discontentment with the GEO (i.e. the player) spreading like wildfire. I managed to get the world through to the year 2120, but at what cost? I will definately keep playing this game and probably review it here when I'm done.
When time came to play DoW2, it was already pretty late (12:15 AM) so I didn't want to start a new campaign right off the bat. I instead opted to try out last stand, a mode that I played a little bit of in Chaos Rising and I was curious to see if they made any huge changes to it. I was paired up with two last stand veterans, each with more than one char at lvl 20 (which I believe is the max lvl), and together we tried out a new map. At first we all used lvl 1 characters, and we we're obliterated by the second wave, so this map is probably more aimed towards players who already got a high lvl last stand character. The other guys then switched to their high-level characters, and we were able to get to wave 18. Next time I will probably try the other map though. But, before that, more FotW is waiting and of course the DOW2:R campaign!