So I've always wanted to play this game and it's on sale on Steam right now. I can get all three parts for 20, but is Retribution any good?

Do I just get the Chaos Rising expansion with the main game or just the main game for 6 dollars?

Also I just bought every Jedi Knight game for 5 dollars. I don't know why, I kinda wanted to play Jedi Knight 2 and Jedi Academy and for the same price I got all the games.

EDIT: Also there's a gold edition for 10, is it just the main game with the Chaos Rising expansion?

Retribution is the best for multiplayer and has the most players.

Chaos Rising has the best singleplayer campaign.

DoW2 vanilla - 4 races in multiplayer(Games for Shitness... I mean Windows live)

Chaos Rising - 1 race in multiplayer(Games for Shitness... I mean Windows live)

Retribution - 6 races in multiplayer(Steamworks)

@phrosnite said:

Retribution is the best for multiplayer and has the most players.

Chaos Rising has the best singleplayer campaign.

DoW2 vanilla - 4 races in multiplayer(Games for Shitness... I mean Windows live)

Chaos Rising - 1 race in multiplayer(Games for Shitness... I mean Windows live)

Retribution - 6 races in multiplayer(Steamworks)

So they all have the same multiplayer right? Depending on the expansion it gives you more races? Or is it all separated?

And yeah Games for Windows LIVE is fucking terrible, it bums me out when I play Batman.

@Doctorchimp: Yes. This is why I recommend Retribution. It's a stand alone product and you get all races in multiplayer, not to mention that the game is regularly updated. Patch 3.19.0 came out a couple of weeks ago. I don't think they update the previous games anymore. Waiting 2 weeks for cert is a bitch.