What's the audience like for a light-touch remaster of a 21-year-old RTS? Especially one that's being sold for full [[link]] price? (Though owners of the original do get a 30% launch discount, to be fair.) Turns out, it's pretty decent. As Relic boasted on , Dawn of War's remaster sold 150,000 copies in less than 24 hours.
I've been trying to convince people to play Dawn of War for years, but always had to do so with caveats. For starters, the base game needed tweaking to run on modern operating systems, and there were four different versions available thanks to its "expandalone" [[link]] release model—if you were a fan of a particular army added in a later pack, like the necrons or Sisters of Battle, you'd have to navigate those. If you wanted the best singleplayer campaign then you'd want Dark Crusade, but if you wanted to go hog wild with mods you'd be better off with Soulstorm. And so on.
No modern RTS has managed to recreate that pleasantly bombastic formula, though maybe when I've finished a few campaigns of Dawn of War—eldar Dark Crusade next, I think—I'll be interested in a new take on the
genre. We'll see if those 150,000 other players, and everyone else who jumps on board the best RTS of 2004 and 2025 so far, agree.
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