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Oh Dawn of War, how I've missed you
Dawn of War - Definitive Edition removes all possible excuses for not playing one of the finest real-time strategy games ever made.
To look back on that time now – an early teenager, surfing the early-ish, pre-algorithmic internet, playing a favourite genre in a pomp we'll probably never see again – is to summon that phrase which increasingly feels like the defining cliché of life as an older millennial. There were no good options, for anyone not playing on a monitor from 2005 (Dawn of War and the first expansion, Winter Assault, are 4:3 aspect ratio for instance, and Dark Crusade onwards just stretched-out versions of that), where now it scales nicely all the way up to 4K. Part of the justification developer Relic gave for this specific type of somewhat limited remaster, in fact, was that it "didn't want to break anything" modders had made for the original, as design director Philippe Boulle told some guy called Wes at IGN.
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