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[GI] Dawn of War II tops US PC chart

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The latest installment in THQ's flagship real-time strategy franchise, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, has entered the US PC chart at number one, according to NPD data for the sales week ending February 21.

It displaced previous long time number one - World of Warcraft expansion Wrath of the Lich King - which moved down to second place, ahead of Sims 2 titles Double Deluxe and Deluxe in third and fourth respectively.

Spore took fifth place, ahead of the Battle Chest and original World of Warcraft products, while FEAR 2 fell to eighth position.

The Apartment Life expansion for The Sims 2 and Crysis: Warhead completed the top ten with EA taking half of the entrants. Activision Blizzard was responsible for three, while THQ and Warner Interactive held one position apiece.

The full top ten is as follows:
  • 1. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
  • 2. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
  • 3. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe
  • 4. The Sims 2 Deluxe
  • 5. Spore
  • 6. World of Warcraft: Battle Chest
  • 7. World of Warcraft
  • 8. FEAR 2: Project Origin
  • 9. The Sims 2 Apartment Life
  • 10. Crysis: Warhead

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...ps-us-pc-chart
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BRiNG ON DA DAKKA!
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Congrats to them but its nothing to write home about. They beat spore and sims, not very impressive becasue the competition is so weak.
ahaha yea SC2 =]

anyways expected. Spore and Sims 2...They still sell a lot?

Wow still going strong as ever
I can't wait until SC2 but unfortunately, considering blizzards past, the game probably wont be out until late 09 or early 2010.
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I can't wait until SC2 but unfortunately, considering blizzards past, the game probably wont be out until late 09 or early 2010.

Blizzard time makes Valve time look super speedy.
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wait till sc2 comes out =]

Bleh. SC2 is gonna suck. Its going to be exactly the same as SC1 with shinier textures and a war of the worlds walker.

Same goes for Diablo 3. You've all seen the screenshots. Its World of Warcraft with an isometric camera angle.

You people hold Blizzard in way too high an esteem... Honestly, what are you guys basing your opinions on? they haven't released a new full game since what? 2004?

Sure sure, WoW is a great game. but with 10million subscribers and a running cost of only 200million since release <--true fact, it damn well better be a good game.

All that aside, I'm sure both games are gonna sell like hotcakes.
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Same goes for Diablo 3. You've all seen the screenshots. Its World of Warcraft with an isometric camera angle.

Hmm, I'd say it looks more like the next installation of the Diablo franchise, you know, since it's set up and plays exactly like the other two....which also happened to come out long before WoW.

Have you played the Diablo's?
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As much as I disagree with the Diablo comment (its a Diablo game... diablo is WAY older than WoW... so way to fail on that one), but SC2 no longer intrests me, I will not be buying it. It took WAY to long and there are no huge advances that they are making... Ill stick with my DoW and DoWII.
I'm going to buy DoWII tonight and play it all the while wishing that a newer, better version of Space Hulk will some day be released.
Alright guys... whatever you say lol (yes I have played both Diablos MANY times)

Just don't come crying to me when World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Diabolic Isometric Singleplayer Lich Crusade 3 comes out and its not all you expected it to be
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Alright guys... whatever you say lol (yes I have played both Diablos MANY times)

Yes, I can make open ended statements in order to make myself sound superior and above your comments also...

If you find the set up of the two similar would it not be logical to of phrased it more along the lines that WoW was just Diablo with a 3rd person camera?

This is not delving into that fact that the two play and are controlled 100% completely different, which you should very well know having played them both through MANY times. I mean, are you really basing this on the fact that a couple of the demon construct models look like the constructs from WoW? Really? Other then that it looks 100% Diablo.
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I didn't hear a word about it. Been looking for a good RTS. Is it really any good?
cant stop a game with orks in space

science fiction universe with space orks > all other sci-fi universes

@licht
if you've ever played Company of Heroes and liked their whole RTS system then you will want to get a copy of this
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I got this game, I think it looks sw33t, but definitely not the best thing I've ever played.
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Yes, I can make open ended statements in order to make myself sound superior and above your comments also...

If you find the set up of the two similar would it not be logical to of phrased it more along the lines that WoW was just Diablo with a 3rd person camera?

This is not delving into that fact that the two play and are controlled 100% completely different, which you should very well know having played them both through MANY times. I mean, are you really basing this on the fact that a couple of the demon construct models look like the constructs from WoW? Really? Other then that it looks 100% Diablo.
Hmm... Looks like you completely misunderstood everything I said.

Diablo 1 was great, Diablo 2 was great, I loved the controls and the play style.
WoW is great, Its controls are pretty good and the play style is cool.

That being said, the games are (like you said) very different. Which is precisely why I disagree with Blizzard calling this isometric single-player wow clone a Diablo game.

And I don't know where you're pulling demon constructs from

You're assuming too much.

Edit: just realized I'm in a DoW2 thread. No further Diablo3 comments will be made by me.
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Bleh. SC2 is gonna suck. Its going to be exactly the same as SC1 with shinier textures and a war of the worlds walker.

Same goes for Diablo 3. You've all seen the screenshots. Its World of Warcraft with an isometric camera angle.

You people hold Blizzard in way too high an esteem... Honestly, what are you guys basing your opinions on? they haven't released a new full game since what? 2004?

Sure sure, WoW is a great game. but with 10million subscribers and a running cost of only 200million since release <--true fact, it damn well better be a good game.

All that aside, I'm sure both games are gonna sell like hotcakes.


they dominated the market with starcraft and D2. Why change a perfect formula?

for your wow clone comment... I dont really know why everyone here likes to jump on the bandwagon so much. Go and play D2 again, its not really as dark as you think. The lack of lighting in general made it seem much more grittier than it was.
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I didn't hear a word about it. Been looking for a good RTS. Is it really any good?

Its really very good. However its not everyone's cup of tea. I think the main reason for this is its style it not like your traditional RTS. There is no base building the focus is soley on your units; it pays much more to take care of your units as well.
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Bleh. SC2 is gonna suck. Its going to be exactly the same as SC1 with shinier textures and a war of the worlds walker.

So wait, let me get this straight... StarCraft 2 is going to suck becuase its going to be exactly the same as the original StarCraft...

Right, but, the original StarCraft ****ing rocked. Why the absolute hell would it suck if its the same?

I'm hoping its similar to StarCraft 1 just with better graphics.
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