Whereas in the original DoW2 you could just keep farming randomly generated missions to keep getting better war gear, since you no longer control strategic assets and because of how they made the storyline in this campaign, you no longer have to deal with these missions, which kind of screws you over when you get to the last mission because itвЂ™s LONG and HARD and (to me) ANNOYING. This makes your characters much more powerful but it can also be a hindrance especially when you reach the last mission, which is the 15th mission. The level cap for Chaos Rising has been raised to level 30 versus level 20 for DoW2.

To get more of the items that would let you deploy more of those items such as the artillery strike, ability to deploy tarantula turrets, you specifically have to pick up the strategic supply boxes. Another thing thatвЂ™s very different is that you no longer have to go around per mission conquering and defending strategic assets (the factories, shrines, and communication arrays). Now, they are specific supplies (explosives, medical supplies, and so on) which boost only those types of items. WhatвЂ™s really different in this campaign over the original DoW2 campaign is that now the supplies you pick up are not generic supplies which supplement all your troops. Just like the original DoW2, you can invite one of your friends to play the campaign with you, them controlling half your forces. Myself, I wish would have liked them to include a campaign which lets you play solely as the demonic Chaos forces, sort of like how the Dark Crusade expansion did for Dawn of War 1 (along with other races, Tau, Eldar, Imperial Guard, Necron, etc). For example, failing to defend some innocents in the conflict that fell to Chaos. This might be as a result of shame or guilt associated with the failure. Sometimes if you fail to meet objectives your men become more influenced by Chaos. Along with most stories for the imperium of man, Chaos has traditionally come from people who have sold their souls to these demons or have been tricked by them or whatвЂ™s even more disturbing are normal space marines (and imperial guard troops) which have simply become Chaos by being in contact with them and elements of the Warp. If youвЂ™re not familiar with the main storyline for Warhammer 40K I will let you know that basically Chaos are these Warp touched kind of Satanists that worship Chaos gods (really nasty beings) and are fallen humans that have become demons. Of all the characters, the only one that is uncorruptible is the Dreadnought, Davian Thule. Corruption modifies the characterics your characters have, making some stuff barely work anymore and some stuff become really expensive to you but make you deal out more damage and other secondary effects. The more Redemption you have, the more normal they remain. The more corrupt you get, the more demonic your men turn. You will however be facing Chaos in the coming war and also this expansion pack has rpg elements from the pen-and-paper rpg game Rogue Trader in the sense that you can do evil deeds that give you Corruption or good deeds that give you Redemption. You can only play as these characters and you canвЂ™t play as Chaos. You take up the role of the same characters in the previous game which were space marines. The campaign mode for Chaos Rising leaves off where the campaign for the original game left off. To check out my overall initial review of Dawn of War 2 click here. This review I will do different than my other reviews because this is an expansion pack and not an entirely new game. вЂњChaos Rising adds much needed content to revitalize DoW2 with reintroducing Chaos and supplementing all existing game modes.вЂќ Dawn of War 2 Chaos Rising review & strategy guide by Honorabili

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