If you look past the fact that you need steam and Windows Live to be able to play even the single player campaign, and the fact that because its steam you can't play it unless it's up to date, this is an excellent game. The graphics are excellent, the gameplay is great – though don't expect it to be the same as Dawn of War.

Dawn of War 2 is highly bent around the use of tactics, as opposed to base building. This is not a bad thing – indeed, it makes for a very interesting play style.

Once again I'd like to emphasise the fact that you need an internet connection, and be prepared to download any patches.

If you like micro intensive strategy games, this game is for you. If you like building lots of buildings and making pretty bases, you probably won't enjoy this.

The gameplay is very similar to Company of Heroes, just simplafied a little and made to be a smaller scale.

The single player campaign is really good with a really nice storyline and very rpg like feel to it, with having characters leading squads who can be leveled up fine tuning them to the way you intend to use them.

Only bad thing about this game is the bug caused when running on a computer with an Athlon X2 CPU, after 1 hour of play in singleplayer the game will start to stutter and freeze, but knowing Relic they should get this fixed fairly quickly.

It is not just a real time strategy game, the game system also combines the role playing ingredients, such as units level up, upgrade each skills for different unit features and boss for each chapter. Graphics is also really cool. control is similar to other real time strategy games, you won't get confused. You should get one, trust me.