Not a lot has been said about Relic’s forthcoming RTS sequel, Dawn of War III. Until now that is. Among other things, the developer has confirmed that players will be able to create their own custom armies.
“Looking at what we had real success with with Dawn of War II – Retribution, with the DLC, and with customisation and building their armies and collecting being a big part of what 40k fans really love, we want to make that a big part of DOW3,” said Relic’s marketing manager James McDermott speaking to Eurogamer.
“There’s going to be lots of opportunities to expand and build your own custom mega army. That’s definitely an area we want to invest in. We see a good opportunity.”
According to McDermott, the game “is going to have a much larger strategic component to it, more of a global battle going on with little tactical things, sort of MMO-like”.
“We brought some base building back with Retribution,” McDermott continued. “With DOW3, because it’s going to be a new version, we’re looking at the game as a whole, and we’re really upping the intensity.”
“With the 40k universe, the tagline is: there is only war. We want to give you that greater sense of the war. The battle. The war that rages eternal, and make that feel like that’s really imposing and all around you, and you have your own personal, custom army in there. “Your army and my army should feel very different. That’s where we would like to get to.
“We’re trying to leverage even more so on the Games Workshop tabletop game, and then combine that with the game mechanics people have said, ‘If you were to make a DOW3 we would like this kind of balance of things,’ and what we think would be good for strategy games as a whole.
“We’re looking at all that stuff really carefully. And I’m sure you’ve probably heard this as well about Relic – we have a big announcement at Gamescom.”
THQ has promised something “big” at Gamescom in August, and the odds seem likely that it is an official Dawn of War III unveiling.
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