No change to Dawn of War II Euro date News

Tom, the open beta is 28th Jan, not Feb.

Another wrong! That's 3 wrongs in 3 days. the standards of EG have really slipped. I think the best part this time is the fact Tom has gone to the bother of linking to the article that tells you the real date.

Regardless, I'm actually happy it's not been moved as I won't have enough money until it's current release date.

OMG Blizzard (or whoever) hates Europe!

@DFawkes
I think tomorrow Tom's articles will read: "What am I, your mother? I don't know, click the bloody link and read your own stupid article!" :)

:D

I bet it will, and it'll still be wrong somehow. Forgot about the beta though, should be good. It'll be the second time I've ventured online with an RTS, hopefully more sucessfully this time. I think the lack of base building and more RPG-like approach should work well for a multiplayer RTS, but we'll see in just over week :)

EuroWronger! WrongoGamer!

Rumour is it only got 82% in UK PCGamer - maybe the dumbing down of the rts rules hasn't worked how they intended...

Or maybe 82%, if taken as a realistic numerical representation of the review, is pretty bloody good. 82% certainly isn't an "only" score. I'd say it'd received only 60% perhaps, maybe even only 70% at a stretch, but 82% is a good score.

The PCG UK review is 82% and it certainly doesn't speak of a bad game anywhere, though it does note Relic made some mistakes (just like they did with Dark Crusade and Soulstorm).

@Turrican
Rumour is it only got 82% in UK PCGamer - maybe the dumbing down of the rts rules hasn't worked how they intended...

Indeed I'm not 100% sure on the limitations they've put on the RTS side especially the fact that you'll be restricted to, what is it, four squads in the campaign but it sounds like a good Dungeon Siege style experience so I've pre-ordered it. If you're want to see a complete mangling of the RTS element see the new Company of Heroes expansion, now that game has been dumbed down so much as to be pointless now, IMHO (controlling a single unit does not strike me as an RTS thing to do).

However:

1) Rumour. I heard a rumour that the Emperor himself blesses those who like the game. ;)
2) Have they even sent out review copies yet? I'm always a bit doubtful.
3) If this was an exam it'd be a B+ result (over here at least). Pretty damn awesome.
4) Although he appeared to like it the reviewer in UK PC Gamer is one guy and one guy's opinion is not everything. Without reading the review we don't know why he marked it down (or up as the case may be). For all we know he might have been planning on giving it a 100% score but then the game called him fat, stupid and ugly and kicked his dog (yes, I know it's unlikely but we don't know).

Edit: purging heretical '(' characters for the Emperor.

@Ryuken
The PCG UK review is 82% and it certainly doesn't speak of a bad game anywhere, though it does note Relic made some mistakes (just like they did with Dark Crusade and Soulstorm).

Relic didn't do Soulstorm, Iron Lore Entertainment did. But that might be the mistake they were talking about. ;)