Retrospective Review - Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War II
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- After releasing the critically acclaimed Company of Heroes, Relic used what they learnt on the sequel to Dawn of War. Does their newfound confidence create a worthy successor to the beloved title?
This was finished before Yanderesim was released. I probably shouldn't be proud of that, but I guess I am.
0:00 Introduction
1:02 Initial Impressions
2:04 Plot
3:47 Game Mechanics
5:29 Campaign
9:59 Skirmish
13:30 Visuals
15:06 Sound
17:11 Conclusion 
Игры
I am absolutely one of the people you can credit as preferring DOW II over its predecessor and yet I am happy to confirm this video did not make me GRRR MAD.
I'm glad you gave it a fair review and didn't just dunk on it as can tend to be the case.
Of course DOW II will get its fair treatment, because now we have a new whipping boy...
_looks menacingly at DOW III_
@@nadontcare9684 DOW 3 is like Soulstorm without memes to make it funny. It's so bad, it's not even worth memeing.
@@sebastiannemeth-ramirez2160 I don't know man, what's more Soulstorm level meme than Jump-Good Terminator armor? Makes a Hundred Baneblades seem just a bit less out there, TBH.
@@nadontcare9684 only one thing could unite the eternal split between DOW1 and DOW 2 fans... and that was hate
@@alyssinclair8598 They're all warhammer fans, was there EVER anything else that could unite them?
Dad finally came back after getting some amasec
Unfortunately now he’s gotta pop back around the corner for lho sticks.
Unlike the Emperor, this one does comes back
Erutan Egaro
The Emperor is always with us heretic and his glorious light will be restored
Looking forward to the Chaos Rising video in 2031!
Kitten is back. PUSH ME DADDY, PUSH ME ON THE SWIIING
And when the world needed him the most...
he returned...
And then immedietly left again
I've been waiting for his dow3 review lol
@@ezekielhavoc9659 I've been waiting for his dawn of war 2: chaos rising review lol
I’m back and better than ever! And I have to leave.
@@WowBlankpage I've been waiting for his review lol
@@WowBlankpage I'm waiting for Dawn of War 2: Retribution.
Fun fact: the guy that did the music for DoWII also composed for battlefleet gothic armada 1 and 2 and it shows, I love how well he captures the universe.
Huh good to know never realized that funny enough cause dow2 and bfga2 are my most played games
I can definitely hear it . Atmosphere wise Battlefleet 2 has the most amazing feeling both in sound and visual design
Peak banger after peak banger. BFG2 is 40K incarnate.
Great work my man. Crazy how natural this comes right off the back of seeing the retrospectives for 1.
Mandy is here
Hey hey, people. Chaos Space Marine here.
Ended up rewatching the entirety of Kitten's Saga, including the Emperor's Finest
Hey hey people, saner persona here.
Nani?!?
2 things :
- Great review
- Youve managed to beat the inconsistency of soviet womble when it comes to space between videos, which is a peculiar sort of achievement, see you in 5 years.
I tell yeah it’s hard to post videos on the old vox during all these warpstorms
just like douchebagchocolate :/
The Warp works in mysterious ways. We may just get a review on *Dawn of War 5: GurlyMan and his Big Titty Eldar GF* tomorrow
The future truly is grim dark...
@@derpasstwahtskie2246 Given GW and their latest take, that is completely possible.
Derpass Twahtskie OH NO...
(We avoided that bolter bolt once)
I can't wait for the next part in 5 years from now
Year 1
@@peebins1238 Year 2
Few more months and it will be year 3
Tomorrow
@@GamerBravo7 Today. It was good.
Everyone wondering when he’ll finish with Dow2’s expansions and Dow3 retrospectives but forget that he promised a Space Marine retrospective in his Winter Assault video.
What about the Mod video after retribution
@@gheorghenicolae yeah UA...
Thunder really be out here acting like he didn't just leave for five years after making the best reviews on dawn of war
Almost 4 years...Christ.
probaly cause he's be doing kitten stuff
warp travel messes with time.
That's what you get when you go on a journey with a giant red chicken through warp space
Thunders ability to go from sounding like a well versed scholar talking about mechanics to a manic gretchin screaming about Yakkety Sax is an absolute delight and testament to his VA prowess.
Just as I read this all I hear is *"FUCKIN' CORRIN"*
Missed this guy.
Like Upisnotjump
2020: *Is God awful*
Thunderpskyer: “Ah hell, I might as well come back with that milk, finally.”
He knew everyone would be ready for it being stuck inside. He is merely playing 4D chess on the level of the Emperor
@@jamesdow211 But doesn't the Emperor play 4-dimensional-chess-strip-poker-billiards?
@@echoesman3439 Yes and he can play a mean badminton game in the meanwhile.
@@echoesman3439 I think you mean Paradox-Billiards-Vostroyan-Roulette-Fourth Dimensional-Hypercube-Chess-Strip Poker
Nobody is going to talk about "A sign in change has ocurred"?
18:28 Got it see you in 6 years
Yee.
"We will reconvene in 84 years."
@@jiado6893 my feebal unaugmented form will not last that long
he was just playing dow 2 ;-;
We are halfway there boys!
"LITTLE KITTEN! YOU MUST UPLOAD MORE FREQUENTLY."
tHIS COMMENT SURE MADE ME DIE
THIS IS NOT CANNON!?!
OY VEY LITTLE KITTEN
Huh, I never realized he voiced THE custody
I DIDNT EVEN REALIZS
Homie really showed up. Left a fire review and then left again.
Fun Fact: The Force Commander’s canonical name is Aramus
I mean, he had his own voice in trailer
Aramus? Thats a weird way to spell captain hair gell.
@@auhbean6572 his name is VANILLAICE!!!
@Tigran Abazyan FUCKING HORUS!?
"Kept you waiting huh"
I was thinking the same thing!
You are WEAK
@@ferrusmanus4013 to qoute vulcan"shut your not face brain ghost ferrus you are not friend"
Must resist urge to acknowledge likes
@@ferrusmanus4013 "Look at him. Do you see his dumb little ghost face? He is like a skull-ghost. *A skost* "
The prophecy, I'm so proud of my boy
Why you h
The thing I can respect most about ThunderPsyker is he puts all the songs and artists into his videos.
Also it's been a fucking year, please do Chaos Rising!
Dawn of War II should've just been the beginning of the WH40K: Kill Team series.
Or hell, call it "Dawn of War-Kill Team". Like a spin off.
This must be how a Custodes would feel if the God Emperor just randomly got up, stretched and yawned, then said "Alright, naps over... Where was I?"
True! :-)
Wow, glad to hear Relic were able to take the Dawn of War franchise to new and exciting places with the sequel. It’s a real shame they never made a third game for the series
But they di- *REDACTED BY ORDER OF THE INQUISITION*
Even the forces of chaos don't speak of that hersy
Top tier comment
Codex Astartes does not support DoW 3
Orks are smart enough to avoid this topic, and they consider jumping into a warp storm as a fun way to get around faster
This man really came back, only to vanish again in a flash.
Four more years lads!
"I only have five guys? How many died in Kaurava?!"
Yes.
Kaurava was a mistake.
This: ruclips.net/video/pknGNVEx5no/видео.html
Absolutely no one died in Kaurava. Everything else is heretic talk. As you know.
"And if we die this deh we die in gloareh, we die heroes' deffs, but we shall not die, no! It is the enemeh who will tehste deff and defeat! As you know’’ - Force Commander Bowling Ball.
i refuse to believe boreale died there, or that the campaign was a failure, infact, i believe that due to the warp storms interference, commander boreale's tactic of using multiple simultaneous and devastating defensive deep strikes (the codex astartes names this the "STEEHL REHN" maneuver) resulted in many of the battel bruthas being sent deep into the warp!
and with them went boreale, he is out there somewhere, fighting the enemies of mankind, bring unto those who should be so bawld and so fewlish to defy the emprah a swift def!
he is a spehss mehreen! and when the chapter needs him most, he shall return! he shall overwhelm our enemies and he shall leave none alive!
BigDickCheney is finally getting the recognition he deserves !
The man does the Emperors, Chaos Gods, Gork and Morks, Khaines and the Hive Fleet's work when it comes to DoW
Vaniellis is nice
HAUHAUAHAUAHAUAHAU
I dunno, looting from enemies isn't something a Space Marine typically does but I'm pretty sure this is a natural Blood Raven thing
Maybe last ditch, if munitions are low.
@@artyomsaveli9681 or again, it’s natural Blood Ravens do that due to their alleged klepto behavior
Though it’s strange they do take items from other chapters too, lol
@@ryon5174 my favorite two are a bolt pistol you find near a corpse that is straight up stated the stole it from his corpse
and the smoking snakes chapters heraldery they recovered it
Why, Kitten, you finally got your life back together and uploaded the DoWII retrospective we've all been waiting for. Safe to assume you got back together with Shadowsun?
THAT'S NOT FUCKING CANON!!!!
Disclaimer: Review of Dawn of War II Chaos Rising will be released when Thunderpsyker returns from picking up milk again.
More like once he returns from Mars.
@@glassfruit7702 Marsian milk is better, it has an after-taste of oil which truly makes the difference
@@Sir_Bucket WHEKELLL ACKHTUALLY: Its pronounced "Martian"
@@dilophosaurussk4333
*advice....*
*DENIED*
Another couple of WH40k edition releases until then.
After three years in development, it was worth the wait.
More than two years, less than four years
Just a reminder, it' took 4 years between soulstorm and this Dawn of War 2. So it's likely we'll get Chaos Rising around the time of the heat death of the universe.
I see you changed the thumbnail. Glad to see you're still active. Hope you're doing well!
Oh boy, Kitten has returned. Thank the Omnissiah
Wait he voices kitten??? O.o
You are WEAK
FealtyKnight 101 he sounds like it now he says it
O.o
@@ferrusmanus4013 Shut your notface brainghost Ferrus. You are not friend.
2016:
"And schedule DoWII review for next week..."
*slips and hits 2020 in year box*
*gets a cyclop girlfriend*
@@Sir_Bucket Stop.
I think you had a typo there, you must've meant 2021...maybe even meant to type 2022- you know what, he's slow. It's beyond jokes, he's fuckin' slow.
Love you ThunderPsyker.
@@mantha6912 ...?
This is the DoWII review though, which did come out in 2020? After the previous DoW 1 review being uploaded in 2016?
@@Donmegamuffin Oh, I misread that, I thought you were talking about the Chaos Rising review. I was watching this while super sleepy at 4am lol.
only 4 more years gents till another video.
at this point the chances of getting a nuclear Armageddon are higher than the chances of getting another review...
@@user-ym2ne1zg1b verry true
See you in five years, can't wait!
FINALLY. HE RETURNS.
Wow, I'm surprised to see you here Oz.
damn waht you doing here
This guy has been in my sub list for years without an upload. And oh yeah psycker is a good RUclipsr too I guess
@@catnipflowers5803 What I'm a huge warhammer fan. I've been waiting for this for what feels like almost 4 years.
H
“Enough churches to make the Polish blush”, huh? Them be fighting words.
Literally more than one church for every week of the year
Ok, who else now wants to genuinely see a "warp's kitchen" series?
I like how you claimed you'd come out with videos "sooner" at the end of your Soulstorm video, only to finally release this video THREE YEARS LATER.
In any case, FINALLY it's finally out. I hope you're back for good, now.
H a hahahahah a h...
A year later
And with a little over 7 hours to spare! Great video with a lot of quality jokes or references - honestly, if you showed someone the DoW1 Soulstorm video and then this one back-to-back I doubt they'd believe they were made so far apart, so bonus points for maintaining the quality and style!
7 hours to what?
@@elvastan Last time thunder was on adeptus podcastus he promised that this video would be done by episode 100, which is the next one.
ThunderPsyker Lives *STOMP*
ThunderPsyker Lives *STOMP*
*Vuvuzela sounds*
I loved how tactical this game was, it's more like chess - completely losing a squad is a significant setback and forces you to think more about how you position them and what engagements you try to fight.
I thought that was kinda weird since you would expect losing entire squads to be a common occurrence in 40k
@@sturm9087 Not that much when it comes to space marines
@@yakamao91 its not as uncommon as you think. In the taros campaign a company of marines got surprised by the Tau and lost like half their men in a couple days before they eventually pulled out under cover of darkness. It was something like 120 marines in 3 days.
ITS THE CAPTAIN-GENERAL, HE HAS RETURNED
Can tell that 2020 is a shitshow of a year if ThunderPsyker actually uploads a video
Don't forget we also got Behemoth part 3. We truly are travelling through the warp without a gellar field this year, just lucky to catch some Imperial blessings while going through this Nurglite shit show.
@@iniudan NO! Mighty-powerful Clan Pestilens created the coronavirus! Why does noone ever credit-congratulate mighty-powerful Clan Pestilens!
@dilophosaurus sk Oh Gods, who let the Skaven out of the damnable alternative dimensional Warp rift again?
@@lyon2475 *Depressed rat screech*
@@lyon2475 blame tzeentch
I see you've returned brother... "But did you have, 'unholy' assistance?"
RUclips detects non-advertiser friendly content.
Purging measures shall commence immediately!
Well its been another year and I came to visit. Anyone else around?
Yeah, we're still around. I'm hoping we'll get a DoW II: Chaos Rising review in 2023 or 2024. But it will be well wroth the wait :D
I like how in Chaos Rising, you can get the actual Primarch weapon Forgebreaker.
"Thunder LIVES! *STOMP STOMP*"
0:58
"MAKE THEM SUPPER!"
*"A L I E N B E A N S !"*
“STAND BACK ILL SHOW YOU HOW ITS DONE” *stabs can and yeets the beans out of it* “OVER THE PROVERBIAL RIDGE!”
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
*B E A N Z
Oh Man, Alfabusa stuff before TTS, it's just great.
"Enough churches to make the Polish blush." Hot damn, I'm using that one.
Guys he updated the thumbnails something's happening.
So, unless I'm missing someone:
-Alfa posted a spinoff video
-ThunderPsyker posted a video
-Karl made a community post saying he can actually start making videos again
Who's next?
Eliphas.
Shammy came back as well
@@HungNguyen-bp2ke Eliphas finally released Behemoth 3/3 not too long ago. I'd say we need an old school Upper Hive.
Or either a Nostalgia and Fresh video.
Vaults of Terra?
Maybe BigDickchiney will post again.
Retribution is gonna be sick, I wonder if our cat overlord played through all the campaigns.
Ork and Space Marine campaigns are by far the best. Bluddflagg is sooooo balls breakingly awesome.
@@Donnerbalken28 Ork campaign is utterly hilarious. You can do all sorts of wacky things, like make Spookums blow himself up and fly away. I remember that it was somehow pretty hard in the beginning compared to some other factions, but it cought up later.
I also loved IG campaign. Lord Commissar Bern is amazing, he can beat the shit out of wraith lords with a power fist while protected by a shield and tanking all the shots.
@Edge Lord McCringe MK-3000 Playing XCOM 2?
OOOOOOH. ThunderPsyker is the voice of Kitten...
I knew I recognized that voice somehow and it was killing me.
3 years in the making, finally, in the hardest of times, THE NEW VIDEO HAVE ARRIVED!
My prediction for DoW3 is just several minutes of Kitten curled up in the corner and weeping.
An interesting thing that was said during one of the early/pre-release pieces of the game was that Relic found that a lot of people who favored single player content either never or extremely rarely played the multiplayer content and vice versa which was a factor in why they made the campaign the strategy RPG hybrid it has going on instead of a more traditional RTS style campaign, which for a number of games, tended to play more like glorified tutorials. It's an experiment and certainly a very interesting one that ultimately worked out.
Experimenting and trying new things is just kinda relic's thing and you can see it across their library. They experiment within a specific game's confines via expansions and then when they make the next game it seems like they just go in a different direction. We didn't really get a straight forward sequel from Relic until Company of Heroes 2. Speaking of Company of heroes, it's a little disappointing you didn't go into CoH's thing as it relates to DoW2 at all as it's the game that introduced a lot of mechanics that made it into Dawn of War 2, that aren't the campaign specific stuff. Going from DoW1 to 2 it's a lot of "Where the fuck did this come from?" But factoring in CoH as in between these two, the evolution seems a lot less out of left field.
Good god I've love a good retrospective series on company of heroes, I'm a massive DoW fan but company of heroes is my favorite RTS of all time, holds up phenomenally for something that came out in 2006
@@fish7598 CoH2 even has a active, if very small e-sport community. And that is remarkable for a game that came out in 2013 and its publisher going under in the meantime.
I'm going to raise my hand as one of those people who prefers single player strategy games and generally never touches the multiplayer.
DOW2 and all of its expansions were AWESOME to me for this very reason. I got some cool tactical strategy games with light RPG elements in one of my favorite settings. What more could I ask for?
@@williamaitken7533 Honestly relics RTS games have a strong history of being remarkably strong single player experiences. Homeworld had a fantastic campaign, as did dawn of war 1 & 2, and the variety of play styles offered by the different companies in CoH made skirmish matches highly re-playable even against AI due how different each one could feel.
Yeah. CoH introduced a lot of mechanics that were carried over to DOW2, whilst being of a scale closer to DOW
Legends says he is still making Dawn Of War III video
"Once I cover Chaos Rising..."
Famous last words.
Hope this guy comes back. His content was sick af. Genuinely entertaining creator.
he did!
OUR LORD VAMPIRE HUNTER CUSTODES KITTEN HAS RETURN!
,,We Have enough churches to make Polish blush" I felt that!!
You should see mid-west American villages. Often one church for each christian denomination.
This is the first time I’ve stood by waiting for a video to drop. I can’t be the only one, and I damn well know that we have all been blessed by this magnificent dissection and celebration!
Thank you so much Thunder. Your services to Grimdark are legendary!
Wow this was uploaded two years Jesus time flies.
I literally just thought the same. We're getting old man.
See you guys in 4 years
Gonna be honest I checked out your channel literally yesterday to see if you have uploaded to find yep still haven't uploaded anything for 3 emperors dam years and just chalked it up as if your channel was dead, BUT THEN I SEE THIS VID I CLICKED ON THIS SHIT SO QUICKLY. Am so happy to see you back man!!!
I wish you all of the best of luck I really liked the video
Eliphas finishes Behemoth, and ThunderPsyker comes back to resume his DoW retrospective. And they say 2020 is full of nothing but bad things.
Emperor has sent us the ray of hope!
Holy fuck the thumbnails changed WE HAVE ACTIVITY
Well now I want to see the next one.
because these reviews are uniformly excellent: your a very entertaining and enthusiastic presenter, the editing is great and funny, and you are thoughtful about evaluating design elements and mechanics. Plus these are like the perfect length that lets you get a solid overview+review out, and not be too brief nor overly padded.
Excellent video, mate. Glad to have you back.
How has it only just clicked with me that ThunderPsyker is Kitten in TTSD, wtf.
Welcome back my guy, hope this isn't just a one off video and that there are more coming.
you just blew my mind.
@@zackeryh.8838 same for me wtf
I knew he sounded familiar I just couldn't place it!!!
WAIT WHAT?!
YOU JINXED IT.
Your reviews are always so fun to watch!! You are doing amazing work with them brother!!!
Can't wait for the Chaos Rising review in two years. Then retribution 4 years after that. All the mini dlc for retribution 4 years after that. Then dawn of War 3 4 years after that. The promised Space Marine review 4 years after that. Finally ending it off with a Space Marine 2 review in 2044 broadcast over a ham radio into the post apocalyptic desert wasteland for his surviving 11 & 1/3rd fans.
I didn't know how badly I needed this until the Kitchen Nightmares gag & cacked myself on the zoom call I was supposed to be paying attention to
I love how there's absolutely no acknowledgement of how long it was in between this episode and the previous one. Just nothing. It's delightful.
it has to look smooth in the playlist.
I miss this guy
How can a man get to a 46k subs, drop this banger of a review, get 400k views on it, even get a comment from Mandalore, and then just disappear. I swear, if he had continued with his reviews with regular uploads, he would be a rich and famous youtuber by now. Oh well.
P.s. Jesus, even Alfabusa commented on the vid goddamn.
Being the Captain-General of the Custodes is draining.
16:24 so DOWII is a bowl of rice krispies.
This is like if Dad just showed back up one day with cigarettes
Missed you lad!
Fantastic editing! This is such an enjoyable overview to watch
So glad to see you still around! Keep up the fun work!
3:13
"I never got why humanity and the eldar never just-"
BECAUSE AROUND (space)ELVES YOU WATCH YOURSELVES
Well welcome to new 40k lore and now they get along just fine, also the Tau joined the alliance.
@@Marinealver Define "get along fine". The alliance between the Ynnari and Guilliman was one of convinience and there are still lots of factions on both sides that didn't agree with it.
Doesn't help that both sides are super racist.
@@Donnerbalken28 They aren't really racist,they are xenophobic if you really want to use the right term you dirty pleb,its just that any contact they had between themselves went badly over and over again so its understandable why they dont get along.
Also its the eldar's fault that they dont get along and also that they are dying.
@@mojewjewjew4420 also the imperium and eldar are, you know, racist.
Eldar believe in their superiority over the other factions of the settings and also amongst themselves.
Because even Eldar need to be flexed on by other Eldars about how inferior they are.
And the imperium hunts down certain minority groups believing them tainted.
Like people with physical mutations are believed to be tainted by chaos or lower life forms then the average human and are generally treated badly which in turn make them defect to chaos.
The bitter irony.
Also whole dare he assume that the totalitarian regimes with superiority complexs that purge everyone else who is not like them with buring passion to be racist.
@@mojewjewjew4420 Xenophobia is racism my dude.
This is like your dad coming home after he went out to the store for cigarettes six years ago
And act like nothing happen
And then leaves again saying he's gonna buy some more cigs.
The man came back after 4 years to release a video like nothing happened, just to dip for another x years
Amazing stuff.
Nice to see you back, can't say I expected it but it makes me happy to see you make amazing content again
no one:
thunderpsyker: uploads video
everyone: RETURN OF THE KING
that is so accurate, haha!
Me: sees the notification
Also me: VULKAN LIVES
You are WEAK
@@ferrusmanus4013 What is this, a Ghost, a Skull, A Skull Ghost, A Skhost?
@@ferrusmanus4013 shut your not face brain ghost ferrus you are not friend
*STOMP STOMP*
The space marine, "AAAH" is iconic across platforms.
2 years and still waiting. I love your work. All the best.
That Tremors skit. I've rewatched this whole thing a dozen times just to watch it again. Frickin' genius.
O MY GOD HE'S BACK I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR A LOOOONG TIME
You mean I CATO SICARIUS THE BEST SWORDSMAN IN GALAXY AND PRIDE OF GIRLYMAN HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR A LOOOOONG TIME
Sir I detect heretics in this comments section
@@mojewjewjew4420 I, CATO SICARIUS, THE NOBLEST AND MOST SKILLED OF THE SONS OF ULTRAMAR IS GLAD THAT I, CATO SICARIUS FOUND SOMEONE WHO CLEARLY RECOGNIZES THE COURAGE AND HONOR OF I, CATO SICARIUS AND THUS I, CATO SICARIUS WILL BLESS YOU WITH THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT YOU WERE HOPING FOR, IMPERIAL CITIZEN
@@clawmb *PRAISED BE THE EMPEROR* !
Jokes on you.
You've actually sold me on visiting Norvich.
This was a great video man, I hope to see you upload more often
I can see why it took so long to get this out to us. You had to go all the way to Mars to find a cogitator capable of possessing this piece of archeotech.
“ *Equip* *the* *Initiates* *with* *combat* *shotguns* ” ahh yes it’s Ravener hunting season again
That is basically the Deathwatch.
I've watched you since before I even knew of TTS. But _now_ I can HEAR the Captain-General even in your casual speech, and I still LOVE your sense of humour. Keep up the good work!
waiting for his dawn of war 2: chaos rising review . BRING IT MATE DO IT!
I cannot lie that when I randomly saw this recommended to me when I used to remember watching your previous review DoW review videos. I had a bit of a fangirl scream.
It's 2020 and relic games still look amazing after a decade.
Dude how have I never seen this the editing is absolutely brilliant
Really glad you're back!! I've missed so much your retrospective, Kitty :P