Posted by Alec Meer on August 19th, 2008.
Share ·You knew it, we knew it, but God it’s nice to really know it. Dawn of War II will definitely, definitely feature Tyranids, as evidenced by Relic’s making an already splendid CGI trailer even more splendid:
Drooling chitinous spacebeasts have never been so hot. Edit – in-game footage here.
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Posted by Alec Meer on September 26th, 2007.
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Okay, so Soulstorm, a new Dawn of War expansion has been officially announced.. It’s got Dark Eldar and a ooh-still-a-mystery race in it, and there’s no point in asking me what the latter is because I honestly don’t know. Honestly. Stop staring at me like that. Alright, alright, it’s Ewoks. Now go away.
Actually, a lot of guessers reckon it’ll be Tyranids, the most notable ommission amongst the Warhammer 40,000 RTS’ ranks, but developer Relic have claimed in the past that they’d never do the big space-lizard-monster-insect-horror-things because the old game’s engine isn’t quite up to how they’d like to do them. Minds change though, so I’m not personally going to definitely believe that old statement just yet.
I can think of some people who are surely praying for it to be a different faction though, and that’s the chaps behind the DoW Tyranid mod. More on which follows should you be so kind as to click on the red words below.
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